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Back on Sunday, Mashable put out a list of predictions on how Twitter would change blogging in 2009. The first prediction in their list was "tweetbacks", or a way of showing tweets that reference a particular blog article. Well, not two days later did someone actually create them. Social media pro Dan Zarrella whipped up a Tweetbacks system that went live on Tuesday, followed by an update on Thursday.

Here's a list of the communication, Web 2.0 and social networking sites and tools that I've come to love the most over 2008. The list is by no means exclusive, but these are the ones I've had the most experience with, and wouldn't ever want missing in my online life.

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If you're reading this blog, you probably know about Last.fm or iLike, two services for sharing what music you listen to, and how much you enjoy it. Some bright folks in Amsterdam have come up with the idea of doing the same thing, but with the applications you use, rather than music. In a nutshell, that's Wakoopa — a service for letting everyone know what software you use, and what you think of it.

I broke my month-long boycott of Facebook today. Within 45 minutes, I scheduled my account for deletion. Good riddance, I say!

I’ve been going through some of the older blog posts on the site, as well as some of the other pages here, with a purpose.

Something that everyone and his dog have been into on the internet these past couple of years has been social networking and the whole "Web 2.0" thing. There are problems with how it currently works, however. Today, everyone goes to social network portals, such as MySpace or Facebook, and while this may be easier for the less technically apt, it's pretty annoying when everyone's trying to get you to use this or that "app" for your portal of choice.