John Battelle gives us a rundown of predictions for 2012, and reviews those made for 2011 to see how he did. In a recap, he writes: "We lost Steve Jobs, stupid Internet legislation reared its ugly head yet again in the form of SOPA, Internet IPOs came back in a big way (but didn’t perform as well as most would have liked), and the world woke up to the implications of programmatic buying and Big Data, ... ." Battelle runs through his 10 predictions, analyzing each one.