2009 was a unique year in the fledgling history of social media, in that it was a year that contained no new “Big Thing”.  The year obviously belonged to Twitter, but Twitter itself really broke into the mainstream at the end of 2008.  There were a number of things launched that received a lot of attention amongst the digerati which may very well go on to become “Big Things” – Google Wave for example – but nothing that created the sort of mainstream attention that Facebook, or Twitter, or even Second Life did when they first broke. Continue reading →