Future:Media:Change

Location based social network Foursquare counted their 40 millionth checkin according to a tweet from one of their developers.

It’s on. Less than two hours after the 3pm registration kick off, South x Southwest is buzzing with people picking up their badges, grabbing their goodie bags and pitching themselves to strangers in the hope they might be an investor, buzz up, or buy their product. Follow our coverage on Google Buzz and F:M:C Wire.

The Pew Research Center have released the fourth version of their ” The Future of the Internet” series, which is pulled together from surveys and questions to leading digital thinkers and figures around the world.

Twitter recently announced the introduction of Local Trends, giving people the ability to search by location-based trending topics. The race for location based information is on, but what does this mean for non profits? Can we capitalize on what may become the 2010 buzz topic?

2009 showed the world the power of the online platform, not only as a mobilizing tool but also as a powerful way to raise donations. With online donations being steadily incorporated into the normative giving structure, what else can we ask our community to do? Is there something beyond money that will actually mobilize people?

Will Twitter be around in 2010? Will Augmented Reality be the next big thing? The truth is nobody really knows what web trends will make their mark next year but by looking at trends from 2009 we can speculate what kind of landscape we will encounter and what all of it means for non profits.

If MP3s are the bane of the music industry, could other three letter word be their savior? According to many experts, APIs could set the music industry free. If the music industry can be saved with open technology, can the non profit industry do the same?