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As the end of the year approaches every blogger out there is throwing down their 2009 predictions; I’m jumping off the cliff to throw down my own thoughts on the new year.

But don’t worry is isn’t some haughty predictions list, but merely a top 10 list of my hopes for marketing and technology in 2009. 

1. MySpace will die. Enough of the glitter backgrounds, 10 mintue page downloads and endless random friend requests from half naked teenagers. Most of the cool kids have left anyways. 

2. Everyone will stop hating on Twitter. You know you want to, like that one time in college. Get drunk and blame your experimental tweets on the booze. In four years if you’re not into it anymore you can just say you were going through a phase. Then you can follow me here. 

3. Spammers will learn correct grammar and proper English. Maybe more people would respond if they could read your spam emails or they contained plausable stories. Really I won the lottery in Nigeria, I didn’t even buy a lottery ticket?!

4. Mobile marketing will finally take off. The last few years have been predicted as The Year for mobile, please finally get big so the masses will figure out what the next big thing will be.

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I am horrible with cell phones. I’ve lost or broken every phone I’ve ever had.

Their deaths were hard on me from the graphite flip phone runaway that was never found to the a red Nokia who suffocated under couch cushions and the most tragic, a silver Moto who committed suicide by jumping into a mosh pit.

Forced to buy the cheapest replacement phone once a year, I was never able to acquire the coolest new phone. My cell shame grew as I started to attend more web conferences. The hot pink razr that replaced the suicide jumper was a poor fool compared to the iphones, Blackberys, Sidekicks and the rest of the rad phones of the web savvy professionals.

Then I had my first phone crush….I lusted after the Sony Ericsson W580i Walkman. An adorable jungle green slider, I fell in love with its useless apps. I thought being able to record and identify songs on my phone would make my life complete. But after a few months, TrackID, Pocket Fitness and VideoDJ have lost their luster and my eyes have started wandering…