Apple and Google ruled a year to note in your Facebook.

John Naughton a technology writer with The Observer sums up 2007, and makes a few predictions for the new year.

Next year will see mass outbreaks of a Facebook fatigue, as busy professionals realise they are wasting an hour or more a day on essentially mindless activities. By contrast, activity-based networking sites, such as Flickr.com, will continue to prosper, for the simple reason that they are not self-limiting in the way that ego-centric services are.

May I also add that I am over the chain letter spam that riddles Facebook. The news however is not all good (the demise of Facebook aside, that is).

Spam will continue to increase and we may finally discover what the Storm ‘botnet’ - the colossal network of compromised Windows machines someone has been covertly building over the past year - is for. My hunch is that the net is headed for its own version of 9/11.

By the way, I love the way this headline mentions the big three in the same sentence (sorry Microsoft).