Ah, the New Year! So soon begun and already it's February.

My arm firmly up behind my back I've been asked to share some 2012 predictions by my colleagues the blog-meisters.

[In case you missed it, this short piece appeared in Design Week on the 6th of January.]

In the spirit of Alan Kay, who said that the best way to predict the future is to invent it, here are my ’predictions’ for 2011.

[This is the third in a series of articles about the theory of engagement. We believe that engagement is the key to success in the world of Web 2.0/Media 2.0. Here is a link to the first article.

If engagement is the key to the Web 2.0 (and Media 2.0) world - and that's what we believe - then what are the implications ? What are the rules of this new world ?

Reviewing our own experience (over twenty years and hundreds of projects) and what we know of the industry at large, we have developed a proposal: four rules for success in the world of Web 2.0 and Media 2.0.

Our four proposed rules are as follows :-

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Cogapp has been working with interactive media for twenty years, what have we been doing all this time? What have we been doing for our clients? And what more can we do now? How should we respond as an organisation? And how can we help others to respond?

MySpace is signing up 250,000 new users daily - March 2006 [source]