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It’s becoming customary among VC bloggers to make predictions for 2008. At the risk of educating my competitors, here are my technology predictions for 2008.

First, Google’s Android and the Open Handset Alliance will succeed…

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When Time Magazine named You as the person of the year, they did it based on your ability to write encyclopedias, publish newspapers and create virtual world avatars. But you are capable of so much more. I doubt, that even in their wildest stretch of imagination, Time could not give you credit for [...]

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[VentureBeat criticized Amazon for lack of vision. Baris Karadogan, of ComVentures, begs to differ and commends the company.]
A key theme at the Web 2.0 conference was infrastructure, centered around Amazon’s big announcement to offer start-ups all their infrastructure needs.
Amazon wants to give start-ups bandwidth, storage, server software and even fulfillment of physical goods [...]

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(Editor’s note: We asked venture capitalist Baris Kardogan to tell us where he sees the most opportunity in the online ad industry, and he concludes that its somewhere other than the usual online video sites — YouTube, Grouper, MySpace, etc — most people talk about today.)
There was a great discussion on video ads earlier on [...]

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