Oakland's continuing trend as an up-and-coming alternative to the SF start-up scene will gain some recognition and tractable returns, exponentially fueling its

Oakland's continuing trend as an up-and-coming alternative to the SF start-up scene will gain some recognition and tractable returns, exponentially fueling its viability. Start-ups ending in .ly will reach critical mass and those further hoping to capitalize on this will be viewed as "old-hat" (if even only in name/branding). This will be revisited in late 2012 by a smashing.ly successful start-up that uses it for "ironic" purposes (if even only in name/branding). Some sort of hybrid between Bitcoin and MMORPG will emerge. If you think people are jumping ship on Bitcoin in droves and that it will soon be "dead", consider that people still play Project Entropia (and even begin playing as new players) to this day, and then consider why. 20 to 30 new programming languages will be released, giving birth to the meta-polyglot, or a language whose purpose is to form a polyglot translation bridge. Hundreds of articles will be written with titles like "n ways to foo your bars in 2012". Thousands like me will make public their predictions for 2012 based on the biases and misinformation that have been brewing in their vacuous heads for more than just the past year.