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Amy Webb: Big data, mobile payments, and identity authentication will be big in 2012

The digital strategist shares the big tech trends we can expect to emerge in the coming year. Amy Webb

Gina Masullo Chen: Next year, personalization platforms will bring us more choices, not fewer

News has always been about making choices among lots of information; technology just helps us make those choices more smartly. Gina Masullo Chen

Tim Carmody: Next year, Kindles, iPhones, and tablets will truly grow up

In 2012, we’re due for a great leap forward in mobile reading. Tim Carmody

Burt Herman: In the coming year, social media journalists will #Occupythenews

In the real-time news cycle, social media can — and should — be about much more than conversation. Burt Herman

Rex Sorgatz: LA is the future (kill me now)

The media entrepreneur shares a vision of Lower Left Coast domination. Rex Sorgatz

Amazon conquers, Patch dies, a Facebook-only outlet is born…and more predictions for 2012

Predictions from Brian Boyer, Joy Mayer, Kevin Kelly, Sree Sreenivasan, and more. The Editors

Vadim Lavrusik: Curation and amplification will become much more sophisticated in 2012

A big question for the coming year: How will the right communities get the right kind of news? Vadim Lavrusik

Steve Buttry: From a dropped paywall to a social media Pulitzer, expect a year of transformation

With a bonus bold prediction for 2012: Gene Weingarten will write a disapproving column about the changing news business that is funny but dead wrong. Steve Buttry

Paul Bradshaw: Collaboration! Data! 2012 will see news outlets turning talk into action

Also: Say goodbye to the homepage as we know it. The future is streaming. Paul Bradshaw

Dan Kennedy: 2012 will bring “the great retrenchment” among newspaper publishers

Paywalls may become more popular in 2012; that doesn’t mean they’ll be enough to save a flailing industry. Dan Kennedy

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