The Year on the Web according to MIT

MIT's Technology review offer their annual account of going-on on the web here. Unsurprisingly Wikileaks issues takes centre-stage but underlying many of the year's issues are concerns over privacy and the fluctuating boundary between public and private life. This is evident at both macro levels where war documents and diplomatic cables were aired to the world, but also at a much more individual level as media comapanies and advertising networks seek to know us in an increasingly more intimate manner. Facebook, Google and Twitter have all stepped up their advertising web programmes and the drive to mine people's interiority, moods, preferences, location, mobility and social behaviour continues to spread in reach.