2005's top tech transformations

New Media Musings has a neat list from the media perspective of the big trends in the last twelve months. Here's the short version:

1. The edges gain power.
2. Citizens media takes off.
3. The rise of Web 2.0.
4. Google grows into a collossus.
5. Skype hits 50 million users.
6. Social media become a force.
7. Cell phones get smart.
8. Print's decline accelerates.
9. Podcasting becomes a movement.
10. The power of goodwill.

Check the post to drill-down into the explanations. I'd argue that missing from the list would be discussions about the massive explosion in RSS, the growth in the mash-up/remixing market, the rise of blog tracking services like Memeorandum and Blogniscient, and the coming of age of Digg. But the list could be wrapped up around #3 (Web 2.0) on the whole, which would be inclusive of those and other emerging concepts.

Great piece.