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My Guesses are:

1- Facebook: Will go bust and be bought by a conglomerate (non IT Group or Microsoft). They will be the "Lehmans Brothers" of the next crisis.

2- Dropbox: Likely to go bust. No diversification and a lot of competition.

3- Twitter: Will be hurt but can survive,due to appeal to Marketers/News/..etc.

4- Google: Will likely drop a lot of products and concentrate on search and self driving cars.

5- Apple: Will become the new Microsoft.


Terrible terrible guesses


My problem with Facebook is that they didn't diversify their products much (except for Oculus). Once FB is not fashionable anymore and users are using another platform (see WhatsApp and why FB bought them) it will be the end of FB. Can they reinvent themselve? not sure, but they surely need to invest more in R&D and diversify their products like Google, instead of putting everything on IM/Social.


What stack did you use?


It's written in C# with PInvoke code to call the underlying Win32 APIs for the battery status.


Same here. Fluent in 4 languages. For me the best advantage is not learning just the language, but the whole culture. If you can't laugh to comedy standup stars and understand the culture of other people, it really doesn't help much if you are fluent in one language or more. Languages also promote a more liberal worldview and more tolerance for others.


I agree with you - the moment you learn another language, you step outside the borders of your own culture, metaphysically, and are able to see things from a different perspective than what is normal. That's the value - and the liability - of language, in my opinion.

The world would be a better place if we all spoke more than just our mother-tongues ..


Fun fact: Its the same in Arabic. Numbers are read from right to left.


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Adding to OP. What pains me in Affiliate Marketing, is that there is never talk about the end customer. The question whether "would you sell this to your grandmother?" is never even considered. All people are talking about is ROI, Campaigns, CTR, AB Testing, Laser targeting ..etc. Nobody cares if the customer is happy.


Make an audit of your sites or hire someone to do it. Decide what went right and wrong with the whole project. Finally decide whether it have a future. You really need to be firm in your decisions and cut ties with projects that are taking time/ not making money or you don't have interest in them anymore. Go to flippa and sell if needed and concentrate on new projects.


Internet of Things will have somehow the same fate as IPv6. Some will adopt it, manufacturers will push for it, but nobody will care about it. It will be a niche for a few years before the market is ready for it.


Morocco. Ticks all the boxes, plus it's something new and different. Wifi is available in most cafe and hotels. Let me know if you need more info.


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