This past year is being declared as "The Year of Social Media".  Its official, you heard it here first!  Social media has become the pre-eminent communication tool of choice for individuals as well as businesses.  2010 was the launch party and Social media is here to stay.  Never before has technological innovation in media seen such rapid adoption.  Newspapers and other print media are playing catch-up and are at risk of going the way of the dinosaur.  Here are some eye-opening developments across the Social media realm in 2010:

Facebook became integrated into the larger web through the Open Graph initiative.  You may have noticed the ability to “Like” pages, blogs or news articles on your favorite websites as you can within Facebook.  You can expect further implementation of this and other features as Facebook capitalizes on its 500 million strong user base.  2010 was also The Year of Facebook as CEO and President Mark Zuckerberg was featured as Time Person of the Year.