This post links to an article that is already from January 1, 2008! From the Economic Times of India, there are 5 megatrends of 2008 and northxsouth.com is set up to take part in all of them. The trends are: fast growth in the BRIC+9 countries — “Brazil, Russia, India, China followed by Mexico, Poland, Turkey, Argentina, Columbia, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, UAE, and Vietnam”. And software services is another. Social networking websites and beyond (our experience in developing user-generated growth technology goes back to the pioneering days of early Tagged.com). Service-oriented architecture. And, of course, open source software! Also, see this recent nxs post about near-sourcing to Latin America. The time has come to quit ignoring the potential of the Latin American free software revolution / phenomenon. We are ready to make it happen in 2008.