The Year in Social Media: 2008

In what will likely be my final year-end list of 2008, I have compiled one more taking a look at the year in social media. This follows my articles looking at the year in online music. Like with those, I dug through our archives and picked out a number of highlights from the social media industry. It was a huge year for social media and not every single story is covered here, but you should find most of the meat and potatoes.

January

Facebook appeared on 60 Minutes, he start treating apps differently.

MySpace got a little announced safety principles. Google was left beta, Reddit was Prologue.

February

Facebook opened the doors on its developer platform and began to talk about teamed up for the U.S. Presidential Primaries, while PR Newswire and CSSRWire ended its YouTube ban, and LinkedIn launched a added some new privacy tools and launched company profiles, and Yahoo was bought Bebo, GyPSii entered the Healthcare community mix, and collaborated on ads, and Facebook faced a trademark challenge from USPTO. YouTube sued by nine different record labels while we heard more launched a data portability effort, and Facebook borrowed $100 million for growth purposes.

The previewing Friend Connect. Reddit StumbleUpon made some video deals of its own. YouTube became the focus of some rolled out some new features.

We also MySpace Suicide Mom was indicted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKIKeEG7SRI June

murdok letting users rate ads, opened mini-feed comments, and July

Facebook Facebook Connect with some sites. They also Oodle formed a classifieds deal with MySpace, and became available on TiVo and CNN launched Lively virtual rooms and Scrabulous was removed from Facebook.

A bill came up that would SEC opened up to social media.
August

altered its app measurement system, and began to circulate with a West Wing writer rumored to be involved.

Friendster Dell experimented with a press conference through Twitter. closed down its social network Mash before many ever even knew what it was. crack down on spam. Meanwhile, AMC September

MySpace MyDebates.org, and record video directly from MySpace. Facebook was found to be didn't want people making new friends on the site.

launched its own social music site, and partnered with ESPN and in a separate story expanded internationally, MTV IBM got more social than ever. A Mac social network Americans favor businesses with a social media presence.

October

Yahoo decided to launched its own social homepage. began a market survey business.

Facebook got friendly with Friendster, while audio preview to fight comment idiocy. Digg photobucket added a couple features, and play with social search personalization, CBS MySpace redefined Karaoke amusement by adding video. launched Twellow Pulse, a feature for Twellow that looks at the buzz in any given category. Shortly after that, we

MySpace showed off its flexibility, and a partnered with MTV, and aunched a new profile editor as well as a revised its alcohol app policy.

LinkedIn expanded into more languages, and Windows Live made a big social leap. Google of course Facebook Connect and MySpace's Open platform. Delicious went mobile, and launched TwellowHood in the U.S. and Canada, allowing users to find Twitterers in their own cities. We also made it opened Social Inbox, Six Apart rolled out a navigation bar for use while viewing third-party sites. Talk of a Facebook movie has

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