The "Man on the Street" talks trends with Wallstrip

I have one reaction to this show…

HEALTHCARE

with a side order of COMMODITIES

Not one mention of drugs, epidemics, medical costs, cancer, hospitals…

No mentions of China or India. Nothing on immigration or the loss of jobs to foreigners.

We had a Real estate crash dude, a bubble mention with YouTube, the MySpace lovers and haters, and a couple of anti-american peace mongers :) . A lot of music talk but is was more geared towards corporate hate!

Loved the FLOAM kid.

An interesting area related to kids and Floam is Webkinz. Young gun successful entrepreneur Darren Herman has a great blog and a great post here on content. His main point is the convergence of the online/offline experience in 2007. Specifically:

According to Dictionary.com, content can be described as: something that is to be expressed through some medium, as speech, writing, or any of various arts: a poetic form adequate to a poetic content. Since I’ve been wrapped up in reading about all the content creators on YouTube, MySpace, and any other content harvesting website/service, I neglectfully forget that in its’ rawest form, content is created offline. Who still creates content offline? Well, apparently there is a whole world that does… and these girls are the tip of the iceberg. It’s very easy to get wrapped up in the web world but we must also keep in mind that the entire world doesn’t exist online all the time… at least, not yet.

A major winner that I’ll predict in the online/offline world is Webkinz. I can’t take the credit for finding this, as the girls have pointed me in the right direction, but this company flat-out gets it. Check it out for yourself, they essentially have created a safe (as safe as possible) virtual world for kids but also sell the dolls that you create in stores around the USA. Content that can be touched online and offline is going to be a very hot area in 2007….

What do you think the hot trends will be? Head over to Wallstrip and comment or link to a post you like or something that rings true.