Here’s a few quick ones off the top of my head:

  • Cubic Telecom will have a £100m exit
  • European Founders, Howzat Media, TAG or Advent will do a deal with a web or mobile start-up here
  • More foreign VCs will invest in Irish web start-ups than Irish VCs
  • One of the current batch of Irish Web 2.0 start-ups will go global in a big way
  • EI’s €170m VC fund will continue to provide minimal benefits to Irish web start-ups
  • Eircom’s small fund will result in two major web start-up successes
  • Someone will launch a full Y Combinator/Seedcamp here
  • Minister John McGuinness will be given responsibility for re-structuring all state bodies concerned with business
  • EI will absorb Údarás na Gaeltachta
  • EI will launch a self-contained web unit with its own budget, minimal red-tape, firewall access to Facebook and based in the Cork Gaeltacht or Kilkenny
  • Damien Mulley will launch his own start-up
  • Six Apart will launch a free version of Typepad
  • Six Apart or Automattic will launch a full blown social network built on their blogging platforms
  • Facebook Sign-to-Noise will continue to plummet as more and more people join and repeat usage plateaus (How many FB apps did I have to install this week just to read happy new year messages?)
  • There will be a management bloodbath at a high level in the mobile operators as they see ARPU drop on traditional services and continue to sit idly-by, unable to make sense of the mobile internet
  • Google’s Mobile strategy will continue to peek out here and there and continue scare the bejesus out of the incumbents
  • The first Google Android phone will be launched by HTC and won’t be fantastic
  • Amazon will merge with eBay
  • Amazon will seriously impact Apple iTunes
  • Google will buy 3 (ok ok that’s wishlist too)
  • RyanAir will buy 3 :-)
  • Ye know I cannot come up with one decent prediction about Microsoft. More of the same maybe?
  • The BBC will brand the OLPC XO as the BBC Micro Model D and launch a major combined TV and internet education program around it
  • Google will buy Bebo
  • One of the video 2.0 companies will be massive (Qik, Seesmic, Kyte, Ustream etc)
  • A dedicated generic Irish Social Network will be launched
  • Bandon and Old Chapel will get 12 Mbs broadband (that’s on the fantasy list)
  • Old Chapel residents will get flat-rate unencumbered 3.5G on our phones (ditto)
  • 2008 will provide tougher challenges but greater rewards to Irish entrepreneurs than 2007

More as I think of them!