As the year comes to an end, many networks, sites, critics and journalists write up the 'year in review.' Some tell the story with statistics, others with images and others with lists. Here is a compilation of links to those from various reputable publications and sites listing "The Best of 2010" in categories such as social media trends, tweets and statuses, world news stories, the year in pictures, art, advertising, business, fashion, gadgets, movies, sports, tv, and books. All in one convenient place.
SOCIAL MEDIA:
• Twitter 2010 Year In Review
• YouTube 2010 Year in Review (top videos in numerous categories).
• Memology: Facebook's Top Status Trends of 2010.
• Biggest Social Media Fails (Huffington Post)
• Top 10 Companies On Twitter (Ad Age)
NEWS STORIES
• CBS Top World News of 2010
• ABC News - Best of 2010
• NBC's Sizzling Celebrity Scandals of 2010
• Yahoo: Year In Review - The standout news, pop-culture trends, and search obsessions.
• 2010 Year In Review - The Guardian
• Famous Deaths of 2010
• Best of Fashion
MOVIES & FILMS:
• MSN's Top Movies of 2010
• Best feature films of 2010 according to Roger Ebert
• Newsweek's Best 2010 Movies by David Ansen
• 10 Best Movies of 2010, Lisa Schwarzbaum picks for EW
• 10 Best Movies of 2010, Owen Gleiberman's picks for EW
• Richard Roepers' top 10 films of 2010
• Moviefone's top 50 films of 2010
• John Waters and Mark Webber pick their 10 favorite films of 2010 for ArtForum
• Top 10 grossing films from Hollywood Reporter
TELEVISION & ADVERTISING:
• Most watched single telecast and regularly scheduled programs of 2010 according to the Nielson Ratings
• TV Squad's top ten TV Commercials of 2010
• The U.K’s 10 Most-liked TV Ads of 2010
• Ad Age's Book Of Tens (ten top ad stories, ten best ad songs, ten most viral, etc)
• Creativity's Award Report 2010 (winning companies, creatives and ad campaigns)
• Warming Glow's top 10 tv shows of 2010
ART & PHOTOGRAPHY:
• Art: The Year In Review by Kenneth Baker for the SF Chronicle
• Huffington Post: The Best and Worst moments in Art
• Blake Gopnik's Best Art of 2010 for The Washington Post
• Laura Cumming's Best of Art for The Observer
• The Year In Pictures from the NY Times (97 amazing images)
• The Year In Pictures from The Independent
BOOKS:
• NPR's Best Books of 2010
• New York Times 10 Best Books of 2010
• O's Best Books of 2010
BUSINESS:
• Huffington Posts covers the AP's Top 10 Business Year in Review
• Bloomberg Businessweek year in review
SPORTS:
• Fox Sports year in review - Best and worst of the sporting world
• The Final Score's top 10 Sports Stories of 2010
• The Onion - Sports Year In Review 2010
• Top 10 Sports Stories of 2010 according to Los Angeles' Daily News
POPULAR WEBSITES & SOME OF THEIR "BEST OF" LISTS
• Time Magazine's best blogs of 2010
• NOTCOT's top 100 design posts of the year
• NotCouture's top 100 fashion posts of the year
• Treehugger's most popular and memorable stories of 2010
• Refinery 29 - Fashion 2010: The Year In Review
• Tech Crunch - Top 40 iPhone apps of 2010 by Alex Ahlund
• GameSpy 2010 Year In Review of Gaming
• 200 Best Gadgets of 2010 according to Walyou
• Year In Review - The Best Of The Web
• Best Internet Memes (according to People magazine)
Year In Review - VIDEOS:
Jib Jab's 2010 Year In Review:
Brian Williams tribute to those we lost in 2010:
Adweek's media Year In Review 2010:
Google 2010 Zeitgeist:
