As much as I suck at updating my blog with meaningful content and conversation, I suck even worse at resolutions for the new year. So I offer the following resolutions for some of the entities that I think might benefit from a refocused effort to make progress:

• The iPhone: I resolve to support Flash and Activesych. And I’ll quit crashing so damn much.
  
• The FCC: I resolve to embark on massive PR campaign that explains the 2009 DTV imperative. Crap, I shoulda started a while ago if I’m really going to avoid massive backlash from the red states.
• Ron Paul: I resolve to prepare “told ya so” remarks for my nomination to the Federal Reserve board of governors later this year.
• Mark Zuckerberg: I resolve to get over my ego and recruit a real CEO to run my business so I can get back to tinkering with my social networking platform.
• The Blu-ray / HD-DVD pissing contest: I resolve to just give up and realize that at some point this year I will be rendered irrelevant when a new multimedia A/V component is introduced. The new device from Apple/Sony/Amazon will let me download wide varieties of HD and multimedia content onto a massive solid state drive.
• Yahoo!: I resolve to do something noteworthy, valuable, or innovative or face the unpleasant prospects of being a MSFT acquisition.

I hope these resolutions by proxy are taken into consideration. As for me: I resolved long ago not to make resolutions, but I’ll definitely make more of a difference in 2008.

Now that this cat’s fully out of the bag, I’ll append the concept of mesh networks to fortify my previous prediction about Android/Google/Facebook and an omnidigital lifestyle. If you don’t know what mesh networks are, wikipedia does the job so I won’t waste your time explaining it further. Take Rob’s ideas about stochastic patterns in social media success and apply that lens to your life with the immutable trend of people and technology colliding into a heuristic oneness. A Peepknowledgy cloud? A GoogleMesh will enable and augment this concept.

Imagine a world in which someone knew where you are, what you were doing, who you were talking to and what you like to spend your money on. It’s not hard to conceptualize if you’re a believer in an omnipotent deity. But now imagine companies have omnipotence over your life, lifestyle and livelihood. A company that blends all this information into a predictive index of where you’ll go next, who you’ll be around, and – drum roll – again, how and when you like to separate from your disposable income.

• Privacy, Facebook and You

Those links are skewed to shock for effect, but obviously the smoldering issue here is Privacy. Mark my words: Google and Facebook will some day have more actionable, behaviorally-patterned intelligence about you than the CIA could possibly dream of collecting or predicting. How will these new products and technologies weave their way into society while assuaging privacy concerns? I don’t know, but I’m sure it will be a white-hot sociopolitical issue in the not-so-distant future.

As an AI buff, Rob probably has thoughts on the convergence of media and a tech-dependent lifestyle, and what it might mean to AI in business. Rob is hereby tagged if listening and interested in sharing!

Sure the Patriot Act gets buzz, but how and when will privacy concerns finally emerge with respect to consumers, marketers and the platforms that seed and spread messages?