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Future of ZiiTrend.com

[ Most Likely ] Survive beyond 2009 (64% chance)
The concept of ZiiTrend.com is great - combining the social predictions and media. However, does ZiiTrend have a unique and valuable enough proposition to survive beyond 2010? Can it generate the criti...
will close on 2010-01-01 EST
  0 News 17 Comments Report Thinkr Thinkr (*)

When will Prince Williams get married?

[ Predicted ] after July 2009 or never (82% chance)
Miss Middleton, 26, has has been the subject of constant speculation that she will marry Prince Williams with bookmakers continually offering low odds on a future marriage even though the pair split te...
[ Closed ] on 2009-07-01 EDT, Unanswered
  206 News 2 Comments Report chawal chawal (122)

Multitouch hyped, then cut from Windows 7

[ Most Likely ] Win7 not shipped on close date (60% chance)
Microsoft has demoed a multitouch interface for its "real-soon-now" windows 7 this week. This prediction says that like WinFS for Longhorn/Vista, multitouch will be hyped up as a great part of windo...
will close on 2010-01-01 EST
  33 News 5 Comments Report Tempus Tempus (*)

Future of George W. Bush

[ Predicted ] Other (please specify) (34% chance)
George Walker Bush is the forty-third and current President of the United States. He served as the forty-sixth Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000 before being sworn in as President on January 20, 2001...
[ Closed ] on 2009-06-01 EDT, Unanswered
  220 News 11 Comments Report voteSense voteSense (*)
Travel booking is changing from brick & morter to click and order. Several agressive relationship marketing companies have entered the market. One according to Travel Weekly is already in the top 35 ...
[ Closed ] on 2009-09-28 EDT, Unanswered
  0 News 2 Comments Report RobertsResorts RobertsResorts (*)

Kindle 2.0 before Christmas 2008?

[ Predicted ] No Kindle 2.0 before Dec 25 (55% chance)
It is still a few months before the holiday season. For us, bookworms, we probably cannot wait to get our hand on the future of book reading, the next generation of Kindle book reader. We all the kno...
[ Closed ] on 2008-12-25 EST, Unanswered
  59 News 5 Comments Report Homer Homer (*)

Will Cuil (search engine) be acquired in 2008?

[ Predicted ] status quo (86% chance)
Cuil (pronounced "cool", according to the creators) is a search engine that organizes web pages by content and displays relatively long entries along with thumbnail pictures for many results. It claims...
[ Closed ] on 2009-01-01 EST, Unanswered
  7 News 4 Comments Report zhou-laoli zhou-laoli (206)
Nov 3 - As the lights go out at about 20 percent of Circuit City's stores, the company is hoping that by closing hundreds of stores and cutting thousands of jobs it can survive consumers who are reluct...
[ Scored ] on 2008-11-14 EST
  6 News 3 Comments Report gorglump gorglump (225)
Back to Nov 2006, the CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, already saw a future where mobile phones are free to consumers who accept watching targeted forms of advertising. Schmidt said that as mobile phones b...
[ Closed ] on 2008-12-31 EST, Unanswered
  135 News 10 Comments Report Woooper Woooper (*)

Will slotMusic, MP3's on microSD card, be a hit?

[ Predicted ] No (58% chance)
This prediction is inspired by the recent announcement from SanDisk in deciding to start selling music on microSD cards on a USB sled. "SanDisk's gambit, called "slotMuisc," has already been endorse...
[ Closed ] on 2008-10-22 EDT, Unanswered
  98 News 7 Comments Report Homer Homer (*)

Dividing Georgia in 2008

[ Predicted ] Status quo (59% chance)
The crisis began when Georgia sent troops to the breakaway region of South Ossetia, sparking Russian intervention. Georgian forces launched a surprise attack on 7 August against separatist militiamen t...
[ Closed ] on 2009-01-01 EST, Unanswered
  311 News 1 Comments Report oWell oWell (*)

Canon EOS 6D (or a 5D replacement) announced in Sept 2008.

[ End Result ] Yes, 6D coming in Sept 2008
This prediction is inspired by a news entry from dpreview.com: "Canon has just added a mysterious teaser to its US website. The page shows a silhouette of a camera with the words 'Destined Evolution.'...
[ Scored ] on 2008-09-17 EDT
  1 News 4 Comments Report Homer Homer (*)

Canon EOS 6D supports EOS Integrated Cleaning System

[ End Result ] Yes, 6D + cleaning system
If you have used a D-SLR before, you might notice how annoying it is to have dust sticking to the sensor. No one likes to spend hours cleaning up dusts in your images with photoshop. That really take...
[ Scored ] on 2008-09-17 EDT
  1 News 2 Comments Report Homer Homer (*)

Release Date - Stable Ruby 1.9 with YARV?

[ Predicted ] July 08 - jan 09 (49% chance)
Ruby code runs slower than many compiled languages (as is typical for interpreted languages) and other major scripting languages such as Python and Perl. However, in future releases (current revision: ...
[ Closed ] on 2008-09-01 EDT, Unanswered
  0 News 3 Comments Report jiipy jiipy (*)

Will Cloning Pets Become a Commercial Trend?

[ Predicted ] Yes (50% chance)
It is heart-broken for losing your beloved pets. Unfortunately, cats and dogs have much shorter lives than we have. As dog lovers, we may experience their death several time in our life time. In May...
[ Closed ] on 2008-09-22 EDT, Unanswered
  16 News 8 Comments Report ocRabbit ocRabbit (*)