Forget the gifts and the yummy food — the best thing about the end of the year is predictions. Everyone who’s anyone and has access to the internet wants to broadcast their bets for 2010. So in keeping with the spirit, this week’s Core Conversation will be part one of a two-part series: next Friday we’ll make our own predictions about 2010, but this Friday we want to take a look back at who had to eat crow in 2009.

We’re doing some digging now to seek out those bloggers who made predictions about social media and Web 2.0 around this time last year to find out how they panned out. If you’re one of those guilty parties, drop us a line or leave a comment here with a link to your blog. (And of course we want you to call in and participate, as well!) We’ll talk about predictions gone wrong and gone very, very right; if you’ve got something to brag about we want to hear that, too!

You can listen to the show live as usual here or call in to participate at (646) 721-9429. We’ll kick things off at 11:30 a.m. Central time on Friday.