OK, so today is sort of turning into a Web 2.0 type of a day. Bear with me here. Why? Because I still would like to share some of the priceless moments in Web 2.0 history…

It’s been a huge year for the Web! A time of renewed optimism in Silicon Valley and an incredible number of new web applications. In a sense it all started with Google’s IPO in August 2004, the success of which was a positive and affirming lead-in to 2005. We then witnessed a renaissance of startup activity, acquisitions and intense VC interest in the Web throughout the year. Here then is my list of the top ten defining moments for the Web in 2005.

10. Bloglines acquired by Ask Jeeves in February. The Bloglines deal signaled that multi-million dollar Internet acquisitions were back! It was the second time Bloglines developer Mark Fletcher had hit the payload, having sold ONElist to Yahoo! in the dotcom boom. A close runner-up was blog network weblogsinc being sold to AOL, which perhaps proved there is real value in blog content. [Read the rest]