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Here are five tech related predictions for 2010. A year from now I’ll do a retrospective post and see how many of them come true. Put your own predictions in the comments.

Foursquare (geolocation) – I already wrote about this in a long post which you can read here, but I’ll say it again. Geolocation, which is the linking of mobile applications to physical real world locations is going to take off in 2010. Facebook and Google are looking to get into the game, so I wouldn’t be surprised if companies like Foursquare and Gowalla see a major pay day. If you don’t own a smartphone yet, it’s time you hop on the bandwagon.

Facebook IPO – Facebook will finally go public at some point this year, solidifying their place among the other tech giants like Microsoft and Google. In the past twelve months, the amount of Facebook users doubled to 350 million. That means Facebook is larger than every country on Earth except for China and India. Going public will also be significant because it will be Mark Zuckerberg’s proclamation to Google that the war over control of online content has escalated.

Streaming movies will overtake DVD – Netflix has stated publicly that they are literally willing to throw money at the major Hollywood studios to get them to embrace online streaming. Blockbuster pushed dvd’s to consumers, and now that they have been dethroned by Netflix, it’s time for streaming to come to the forefront. People will finally realize it’s much easier to click your remote and have a movie show up, then it is to wait three days for one to come in the mail. Bandwidth has finally reached a point where streaming HD content isn’t really a big deal.

Apple Tablet – Apple has stated they are having a major media event on January 26. All signs (mainly patents filed by companies believed to be shell companies owned by Apple) point towards the announcement of the long awaited Apple Tablet. Rumors state it might be called the iSlate, or iGuide. Regardless of the name choice, the tablet will revolutionized the publishing industry like the iTunes did for digital music sales.

The emergence of the all in one mobile device – Remember that device Leela wore on her wrist in Futurama? We’ll be a whole lot closer by the end of 2010. In the next year alone we will see pocket sized projectors coming from LG, physical payments methods created by Square, barcode scanning and more. The all in one mobile device will go hand in hand with the ever increasing accessibility of data.