I have been inspired by TechCruncher Michael Arrington’s “A year later: The companies I want to profile (but didn’t exist)” post and decided to type for my expectations as well:

For me, the content in web universe is still highly decentralized. I got some video favorites on Metacafe and Youtube; friends in MySpace, Facebook, YesNoMayb while pro contacts in LinkedIn; photos in my own Coppermine-powered web gallery and Flickr; podcasts in iPod; episodes of Heroes, Lost and Criminal Minds in PSP; docs and spreadsheets in work laptop, home laptop and Zoho; articles in hard copy file cabinets and PDF chunks; and last but not least, blog posts here and there…What if there was a command center? All the buttons placed on a huge, single dashboard, that you can control all the digitized aspects of your life: write your blog, listen to your music, read your RSS feeds, update your website’s background color, work on your Excel files, read e-mail, track your Amazon shipment, buy 100 shares of Apple in Nasdaq and enhance the functionality of this dashboard with a new applet or widget when needed with the easiness of dragging and dropping. What if I didn’t have to open 12 tabs in Firefox each day, enter my username/password for each of them, plug-in my USB to store files, trade a stock from my bank account and then enter the transaction into my Yahoo Finance account to keep track of return? That is it, a full-fledge, ultimate command center for the busy websurfer, is the first thing I expect from 2007.

Others? well: consolidation of video sharing websites, further commoditization of online storage, an out-of-the box solution for spam, an infrastructure for keeping portable true web identities regardless of the base (web-passport?)…

Best services of 2006: VentureBeat, StumbleUpon, Netvibes, Gmail, Yahoo Finance and YesNoMayb.