The net is set for a busy new year

While many use the festive period as a time of reflection and rejuvenation, you can rest assured that our favourite internet innovators were using the time to prepare for a launch into another year of exciting online developments. Delve into the bigmouthmedia newsletter to have a look at the last digital stories of 2009 and the first headlines of 2010 to immerse yourself in the exciting online arena once again.

The build up to the holidays saw reports that one of 2009's biggest continuing and sometimes baffling success stories - microblogging site Twitter - would end the year in profit. However, Twitter wasn't the only social sharing site to have good news over the holidays. News that Facebook pipped Google to the position of most visited site at Christmas must have had the social networking site rocking around the tree.

Another unwelcome gift came the way of the Mountain View giant as Google lost a domain name case to a Canadian company with the moniker Groovle.com. However, the search giant's disappointment was surely augmented by the news that Chrome is now the world's third most popular web browser, suggesting that the browser wars are only set to intensify in 2010.

The year ahead also looks as though it will see a continued surge in the number of people making use of the mobile web and enjoying the ability to surf their favourite sites on the go. The much discussed potential unveiling of the Nexus One handset today has Googlephiles salivating, while some providers are making waves by producing apps for more basic handsets.

This will surely only flame the fires of Apple's iPhone ambition and rumours that Apple is poised to buy mobile advertising company Quattro Wireless indicate the dukes of design are not willing to wait around. What's more, at the end of the year we heard that the iconic brand was in talks with CBS and Disney, sparking rumours of a TV takeover for Apple.

Whatever 2010 holds, from a boom in augmented reality to the monetizing of the big social brands, you can rest assured that it will be one hell of a ride - so strap yourself in and let the bigmouthmedia newsletter guide you through the twists and turns of the headlines ahead.

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