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After babbling about smart watches I couldn't hold back on this one either. There are 3 interesting tech stock. Sure, a lot of people are interested in them. These are stock to buy and keep on buying for the next 5 to 10 years. These are fundamental companies of the interwebz today and for the coming decade. Sure there are others, but I like these guys. Facebook isn't going any-bloody-where despite what pundits waffle about te death of social. It's next financial results will show nothing less than a boom that will no doubt eclipse its last astonishing set of stats. Next to Google, it is set to gobble up a whole lot of tasty advertising budget. Google is just doing things right. From the buzz around Google Glass to the plodding ascent of Android. They are by far the smartest company on the planet. LinkedIn is Facebook for serious work peoples. Let's face it. And there the revenue for job ads can only go in one direction. I mean, Monster-who? That was fun.

This post is simply intended to vent my feelings about the smart watch. I'd like to first throw out the prediction that the smart watch will be a big device and make tech companies plenty of money. It's hard to say how long it will last, but I'm guessing like.. forever :) You see, a watch is just something on your wrist. But let's face it, a smart watch is not a fucking watch is it. It's a personal computing device, just like your phone is today. In fact I really hope that Apple does not call it a watch or even use the word watch in their keynote. And I really believe that the smart watch (I'm allowed to call it that) has the potential to save Apple from a bit of a long term downturn (it'll take a while for iphone fever to lessen, but the 5c doesn't really cut it in my opinion). Apple need to make their wrist-worn iDevice as damn hot as the first iphone.  Everyone knew it was a smartphone and yet it blew everyone - and the entire smartphone (if...