All right, yesterday it was looking back on 2006. Now let’s look ahead to 2007:

Top 10 Online Marketing Trends of 2007
Top Hot Social Networks for 2007
Top Alternative Tech Predictions for 2007
Top 10 Mobile Marketing Predictions for 2007
Top 10 Forecasts for 2007 from the World Future Society
Top 10 Software Trends for 2007
Top 10 Security Threats for 2007
Top 10 Tech Concepts You Need To Know for 2007
Top 10 Cant-Miss Predictions for 2007
… and, of course, the Top 10 Hangover Cures

DECEMBER 6, 2008 UPDATE: That link above for Top 10 Cant-Miss Predictions for 2007 is a dead one. I guess they missed.

As the year winds down, the flood of restrospectives and Top 10 lists increases. Here are 10 interesting ones I’ve found with a little bit of digg-ing:

Top 10 Business Shenanigans for 2006
Top 10 Best and Worst Communicators of 2006
Top 10 Domain Name News Stories of 2006
Top 10 Rich Internet Applications Events of 2006
Top 10 Gizmodo Photo Galleries of 2006
Top 10 Popular Torrent Sites of 2006
Top 10 Web Sites of 2006
Top 10 Video Clips of 2006
Top 10 Sex Stories of 2006
… and finally: The Top 10 Top 10 Lists of 2006

“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”
—Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault

Forget predictions for 2007 — let’s look back at the end of 2005 and see how the predictions for 2006 played out. Here’s a Top 10 list from iMedia Connection that makes for interesting reading.

Amid the typical Top 10 hyperbole are some salient observations, and while #8 probably seems a little on the obvious side, it’s looking pretty prescient in light of you being named Person of the Year.

Yesterday’s Washington Post carried this interesting article about commerce in Second Life, which in addition to lots of technological and sociological issues is raising lots of financial and intellectual property issues that need to be worked out. Fascinating stuff.