Social Media Trends in 2010
Growth
Identity
Security
Real-time
Government transparency
Niche Networks
Mobile
Geolocation
Serious Business
Online Video
Social Gaming
Facebook at 350 million users. $1B in revenue. 
Milbook for DoD. 
"Companies are racing to achieve namespace 
dominance over your online profile."
                                -Chris Messina
"We’re going to see an explosion of
 things that use location."
                                 -Robert Scoble
"App is the new website"
            -Mathew Ingram
Privacy
"Privacy is dead, and social media 
hold the smoking gun." 
        - Pete Cashmore, Mashable
"Attacks using third-party applications will increase 
and become more sophisticated. More increase in infrastructure 
attacks against social networks or the users of social networks."
                                                      -Tom Eston 
"I see a thousand specific Twitters popping up for places internally and externally, each using OAuth to validate who we are."
-Chris Brogan
"IDC expects a surge in enterprise spend for 
social platforms in late 2010."-Carol Dangson, IDC
Social Media for Good
"19% of internet users now say they use Twitter or another service to share updates about themselves, or to see updates about others." - Pew Internet
"Social gaming will continue to increase in popularity
 and become a primary focus for those trying to figure
 out how to market to the digital natives."-Lucretia Pruitt
"Mobile application stores are expected
 to generate revenues of nearly $7 billion.
 -Gartner
"Trend spotting will happen minutes or hours after 
some new fad starts, rather than days, weeks or months. 
And you’ll hear about break ing news faster than ever before."
-Dan Zarrella
"When you tell people you're working on 
something and you ask them a specific question, people will come out of the woodwork to help you."
-Andy Carvin