2011 has been an exiting, crazy, alarming year: a year of a series of dramatic breaking news in general and regarding the Web and Net in particular. – The top 10 news here on Wir sprechen Online. according to your views:

• Google Plus: Circles, Sparks, Hangouts, Mobile, Huddle
• Facebook Timeline
• WikiLeaks: Pros and Cons
• Ilya Zhitomirskiy
• Diaspora Beta
• Internet Censorship: SOPA and PIPA
• Social Networking Teenagers
• Siri: Let’s Talk!
• Local Business
• Blogosphere 2011

The top news we think you shouldn’t have missed in 2011:

• State of the News Media 2011
• No Social Graph but Staying in Touch
• Social Networking Adoption and the Attention Economy
• Online Activities and Social Media Mobile
• Passive Experience and The Facebook Decade
• Surveillance, Unsharing, Facebook Privacy
• #NymWars, #PlusGate, Google Plus Identities
• Social Proof Marketing, Google Agent Rank, but Peer Influence?
• Localisation, LBS Adoption, and Local Business
• Wikipedia vs. Italy, Internet Censorship: SOPA and PIPA

Some thoughtful predictions for 2012:

• Predictions for 2012
• Journalism 2012
• Social CRM (SCRM)
• Google and Google Search
• Mobile and Cloud Platform Wars
• IT: Cloud, Social, Mobile, Information

And – last but not least: Frohes Neues Jahr! Happy New Year! Bonne Annee! Gullukkig Niuw Jaar! Godt Nytt Ar!

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Google Plus: Adoption, Identities (#PlusGate/#NymWars), Business (Profiles), Search, API