Predictions for 2008

Continuing my end-of-year wrap up ...

Here are ten bold and fearless predictions for 2007:

1. Hillary Clinton will become the next President of the United States.
2. Chief Justice Murray Gleeson will be replaced on the High Court by the Chief Justice of New South Wales, the Honourable Justice James Jacob Spigelman.
3. The Wikia search engine from Jimmy Wales won't have any real impact on Google's market dominance.
4. Facebook will overtake MySpace to become the most popular social networking site for Australians.
5. OpenID usage will grow with some major sites allowing you to use your OpenID to log in to your account.
6. 2008 will be remembered as the year the mobile web took off.
7. The Kyle and Jackie O hosted series of Big Brother will be the last for Channel Ten.
8. The Best Picture Oscar will be won by No Country for Old Men.
9. Geelong will win the AFL Premiership for the second year in a row.
10. Grant Hackett will become the first man in 112 years to win the same Olympic swimming event three times in a row in the 1500m at the Beijing Olympics in August.