Crowd Gazer: Who’s predicting what in Feb ‘09?
Welcome to ‘Crowd Gazer’, the monthly roundup of who is predicting what at Nostradamical.com and what trends we are seeing from our user community. All predictions and forecasts at Nostradamical.com are created by you, the public.
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So January saw us off to our public launch with a great response through AllMyFaves and TechCrunch. We had a great sign-up response and some fantastic predictions posted by our new members.
So what’s cooking on the Nostradamical.com prediction stove in February 2009?
In Technology:
Twitter’s future seems secure from Facebook, whilst Steve Jobs looks like he’ll keep on truckin’ at Apple for the time being. Go Steve, go!
It looks like Power.com’s future in 2009 is tenuous for the moment and AOL doesn’t appear to be a future player according to our forecasters.
This month’s announcement of Amazon Kindle 2 looks shaky with so many other iPhone, smartphone and netbook options out there. It’s a great product though.
In Entertainment & Celebrity:
There is a strong chance Heath Ledger will get a posthumous Oscar for his fantastic performance in The Dark Knight. Not long now until the Oscars. Let’ face it, it would be a great award for a great actor.
With the start of Lost Season 5 this month it looks like our forecasters think John Locke - the leader of the ‘Others’ is not actually dead. A no-brainer we’d say given he’s one of the main characters. Still it’s great to see Lost back on TV.
This month saw some hot activity around Taylor Swift’s rise up the US charts with her song Love Story - clearly user Heatwave is a big fan. Sadly the prediction of a number 1 slot was wrong. Better luck next time.
Lastly, and of our favourites…we’re tracking Rick Astley’s potential chart comeback with interest. Could this be our first self-fulfilling prediction?
In Sport:
In the US we’re seeing some interest in the Florida Gators repeating as National Champions in the 2009/2010 season. Oh and we got the NY Giant’s Super Bowl prediction wrong this time. Who wants to make next year’s Super Bowl prediction now? Be our guest.
In Europe this month sees the Rugby Six Nations tournament reach blistering levels of excitement as Wales are tipped to repeat their success last year as Grand Slam Winners.
In Business it’s all doom and gloom with various predictions on collapses and acquisitions. Could Fiat be in total control of Chrysler by the summer? Will the Bank of England’s base rate hit 0% by the summer? Oh and while we’re on the subject, let’s go all out…will the US economy collapse in 2010? I think it has already?
As for the Yahoo-Microsoft relationship our forecasters don’t think Yahoo will survive 2009 without being sold. What do you think?
In World Affairs:
In World Affairs we’ve seen a lot of activity around the Iran / Israel political debate. What are the chances Iran will send nukes into Israel this year? Gladly unlikely. Oh, and will Israel attach Iran’s nuclear facilities in 2009? Unlikely, but scary as hell.
Lastly, in Evil:
In Evil we have two of our favourite predictions. Firstly is seems fairly unlikely that Osama Bin Laden will be found this year again. Where is this guy?
And looking longer term we’re happy to see some creativity sparking with a prediction on whether or not the world will end on December 21st 2012 as ‘hyped’ by various sources. At least this one will be easy to confirm!
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