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Marty Note
Cool "emerging" technologies covered here cover trends across tech and manufacturing:

* Body-adapted Wearable Electronics.
* Nanostructured Carbon Composites.
* Mining Metals from Desalination Brine.
* Grid-scale Electricity Storage.
* Nanowire Lithium-ion Batteries.
* Screenless Display.
* Human Microbiome Therapeutics.
* RNA-based Therapeutics.
* Quantified Self (Predictive Analytics).

* Brain-computer Interfaces.

My favs are RNA-based Therapeutics (since this could help my dad's macular degeneration and Quantified Self (predictive analytics since they will change ecommerce as we've known and practiced it).

Promising "trend tags" here too for http://www.crowdfunde.com.

Via Grant Montgomery, Martin (Marty) Smith

Why keeping up with web design trends is vital In today’s fast-evolving trends, people’s interests are being influenced briskly by the web, wherein onlin

 

Marty Note
Like #7, use of Neon Colors as accents. Color is so tricky online its use as "accents" is the best idea. Will see if I can find a "neon color accent" example and shsre it, but sounds like a cool trend I've only read about from this Chinese social agency.

Other trends noted include ones we've seen in several of these "what's up for 2014" posts including:

* Simple.

* Flat.
* All in one.

* Responsive.
* scrolling.

Via Martin (Marty) Smith, John van den Brink

In 2014, we'll see brands and agencies harness digital advertising in a way that integrates seamlessly with people's busy lives, whether through location retargeting on their mobile devices, predictive analytics or the intelligent automation of the ad buying process. Consumers send buying signals every day to advertisers and the brands that figure out how to use technology to listen more closely and send their messages in an organic and authentic way will succeed.

Via Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com, Martin (Marty) Smith

Perhaps you’re looking to maximise visibility and brand awareness of your exciting new startup, and (wisely) feel that social media could be the best and most efficient way to do this. But with Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and so many platforms to choose from, where do you get started?

Which network is right for you?

Help is at hand, courtesy of this infographic from Leverage, which provides a snapshot of key statistics data for Pinterest, Twitter *, Facebook, Instagram, Google+ and LinkedIn.

Via Lauren Moss

Emergence of Social/Search In 2014
Just as Einstein collapsed space and time into Space/Time 2014 will see the reality of Social/Search. Social/Search is, again much like Einstein's Space/Time, a seamless fabric where one concept contributes to the other in a dance so intimate it is impossible to tease them apart.

The promise of Social/Search has been sitting in the room for a few years. 2014 will see the reality of Social/Search.

Via Martin (Marty) Smith

5 Internet Marketing Secrets
Some of these 2014 "secrets" such as ecommerce and social media may not feel very secret, but there is still plenty of "blue ocean" in them still. Ecommerce creates great content marketing support for less and less effort (to create the story) so every website should have a store now even if all they sell is their logo merchandise.

Social media is ubiquitous but not embraced. Our recent Ecommies Study of social media for top online retailers (http://bit.ly/1gATp9p ) proved many have social media accounts but few are "social businesses".

5 Secrets Blog Post on ScentTrail Marketing
http://bit.ly/IYZIo8

5 Secrets Haiku Deck
http://bit.ly/1k6uJFu

Via Martin (Marty) Smith