Unlike "100 Things to Watch in 2010," this list "90 Things to Watch in 2009" have more references to underspending, the recession and much more. Of course, my favorite is #14: Credit Card Dieting.








1. 21st-Century Networking

2. Affordable Nutrition

3. Amy Poehler

4. Apatow-esque Humor

5. Bruno

6. Building a Beauty Arsenal

7. Buraka Som Sistema

8. Career Reinvention and Extension

9. Chat-Avoidance Services

10. The Cleveland Show

11. Cloud Computing

12. The Collective Consciousness

13. Creativity in the Informal Economy

14. Credit Card Dieting

15. Crowdfunding

16. The Decline of E-Mail

17. Distraction as Entertainment

18. DIY Repairs and Renovations

19. Doha

20. Dragonball

21. EarthRoamer

22. Electric Bikes

23. Elizabeth Banks

24. Emma Stone

25. The Energy Race

26. Environmental Exercise

27. Family-Friendly TV

28. Freebies

29. Gerard Butler

30. Girl Talk

31. Giving Circles

32. Gluten-Free

33. Good Old-Fashioned Cooking

34. Graphic Novels Hit Hyperdrive

35. The Green-Collar Class

36. hi5 37. Holographic Projection

38. Home as Castle

39. HomeAway

40. Homemade Beauty Treatments

41. How to Talk to Girls

42. Incognito luxury

43. Inconspicuous Travel

44. Innocent Cosmetics

45. Lady GaGa

46. Lala.com

47. Lance Armstrong

48. Lykke Li

49. Maria Pinto

50. Marketing with Aromas

51. Michelle Obama

52. Microfinancing’s Second Wave

53. Mobile Phones Get Personal

54. More Under One Roof

55. NASA’s Kepler Telescope

56. Netbooks

57. Noor

58. No “Paper” in Newspapers

59. Nutrition Replaces Dieting

60. Obama-speak

61. ODO7

62. Online TV Network Crackle

63. Online Video Ads

64. Outliers (as a term)

65. Palin’s Grandson

66. Personalized Travel Guides

67. Pisco Sours

68. Presidential Sightseeing

69. Prince William Wedding Watch

70. Product Source Tags

71. Radical Transparency Meets Genomics

72. Readers + Social Media = Revenue?

73. Residential Market for Solar Power

74. Ricky Rubio

75. Russell Brand

76. Safe-keeping

77. The Small Movement

78. Smart Garages

79. South Africa

80. Stuart Karten

81. Sustainable Fishery 82.

T. Boone Pickens

83. Telepresence

84. Touch Screens

85. Twitter Copycats

86. Virtual Reality Therapy

87. Virtual Socializing

88. Widgets 89.

89. Wikileaks

90. Xbox Streaming