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December 20, 2005
Wrapups, predictions
Wrapups, predictions: Lots of people are now summing the top trends of 2005, and the trends they expect in 2006. After reading these I've got my own short list of most-important developments in 2005, but I'd like to list these out first. Richard MacManus lists "Top Ten Web 2.0 Moments of 2005", and these seem to be mostly business deals which received high coverage among the Memeorandum pool of bloggers. Alex Barnett responds with his own longer list of significant deals and interesting trivia in 2005. Thomas Baekdal offers predictions for 2006, including the deflation of some smaller hype cycles but the fulfillment of deeper underlying trends (I like this list). Stephen Bryant sums up the year's changes in "home pages", or personality portals (where your choice of data is served by Google, Yahoo or whomever) -- more a survey than a summary or set of predictions, here. Luigi Canali De Rossi is bullish on trends like information-filtering, web video, and collaborative creation -- his eleventh point is about using Flash for grassroots media editing. Jon Udell predicts '06, with emphasis on Flash Video, screencasting, TV integration, more.
Posted by John Dowdell at December 20, 2005 1:23 PM