Below are seven 2011 predictions from Scott Lahman, CEO of GOGII which develops texting apps. If you’ve got 2011 predictions, send them my way and TDR will considering publishing them.

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1.      No more C’s on our business cards: It’s called mobile and they’re called mobiles – business cards will stop using “c” to indicate cellphone.

2.      Mobile piracy issue will take center stage: Software Piracy on mobile devices will go from a dirty little secret to one of the big “must-solves” of 2011.

3.      App store developers will start making big $$$: Exits for companies started in the Apple App Store will cross $2 billion in value.

4.      2011 will be the year of real friends when it comes to social: Intimate social will become a common theme, and we’ll spend more time un- friending than we will friending.

5.      Wireless carriers will start pro-rating data: Overloaded wireless networks will prompt a forward thinking carrier to build a usage plan that offers discounts to subscribers who consume a certain percentage of their data on wifi networks.  Smart apps that can offload SMS to wifi will benefit. (Especially with the advent of 4G/TDR)

6.      Everyone will have a mobile strategy: Every CMO and CTO will have their mobile strategy ironed out by Q2 or else.

7.      Tech giants will start hiring military men: Google and Facebook will begin hiring former military leaders as the war for talent escalates.  By October, one of the two giants will try the bold move of deploying a tank brigade to secure hundreds of the others’ employees at a time… you still reading?