I wish I had this exceptional ability to forecast the future. Every time I try to do, I end up with egg on my face. When blogging first came to the scene, I said too much work for people to do and here I am today- blogging hard . Then micro-blogging came and I thought, now, we have to micro-manage time! Looking at the number of players in this space, I am beginning to wonder whether this has come of age. Here are some of the active players:

Twitter: the first on the scene which allows users to send “updates” (or “tweets”; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website via short message service, instant messaging, or a third-party application such as Twitterrific.

Jaiku was the first competitor to emerge & the acquisition by Google made it even stronger. Jaiku’s put in special effort to create Jaiku Mobile, a live phonebook that displays the activity streams, availability, and location of one’s Jaiku contacts right in their phone contact list.

Pownce, another competitor sends just about anything: music, photos, messages, links, events, and more. Of all the Twitter competitors Hictu added features that separate them from the rest – they’ve given users more networking options & also ways to control content from within their account.

Utterz lets users create rich media micro posts with text, audio, or video and have it automatically updated on their blog, web site, or Facebook account directly from their cell phone! It’s a microblogging tool that lets users call audio in from their cell phone, making it easy to post updates when a data connection is not available.

Loopnote calls itself -Notifications 2.0, it is about management of all notifications/messages in a central place.

So who is going to forecast the winner in this space or evolution in this space, not me