It's that time of year again when everyone feels the need to make a list about things that happened over the previous year. Here are some of my favorite end of year lists:

• 2012.Twitter - A summary of 2012 on Twitter. Topics including: Golden Tweets, Pulse of the Planet, Only on Twitter, Trends, New Voices, Your Year on Twitter
• Google's Zeitgeist - 1.2 trillion searches, 146 languages. What did the world search for in 2012?
• Facebook Year in Review 2012 - A look back at the people, moments and things that created the most buzz in 2012 among the billion people around the world on Facebook.
• The 10 Most Overused LinkedIn Profile Buzzwords of 2012 - LinkedIn revealed its annual list of the 10 most-overused buzzwords job hunters use on the social network and "creative" was once again at the top of the list both globally and in the U.S.
• 20 Most Shared Ads of 2012 - Mashable's list of the 20 most shared advertisements

Just in case the world didn't end and life has gone on, here's what you missed this week while preparing for the end:

• Apple Loses Bid for U.S. Ban on Infringing Samsung Phones - Apple's request for a U.S. sales ban on 26 Samsung devices was rejected by a federal judge.
• Deadmau5 Proposes to Kat Von D on Twitter - Sharing a photo of a ring with his followers, Deadmau5 popped the question, tweeting, "I can't wait for Christmas so.... Katherine Von Drachenberg, will you marry me?"
• Google Maps Tops 10 Million iOS Downloads - Judging by the early response, iPhone owners seem very happy to have Google Maps back on their smartphones.
• Instagram Policy Hints at User Photos in Ads - New details on its revised Terms of Use suggest Instagram may start pulling user photos and incorporating them into ads -- without pay.
• Twitter Now Has More Than 200 Million Monthly Active Users - Twitter has passed 200 million monthly active users, the company announced in a tweet Tuesday.
• How Katy Perry Inspired LinkedIn’s Global Redesign - The pop singer is the namesake, and underlying inspiration, for the company’s largest product design undertaking since its launch in 2003.
• Twitter Launches Archive Tool - On Wednesday, the site announced that users will be able to download their entire personal Twitter archive. That includes their tweets and retweets, and there will be tools to let users search them by date, keywords, hashtags or @usernames.
• Google+ Now Lets You Mention Other Users In Your Posts - Now you can add a link to a Google+ profile or page when you want to mention them/it in a post. This works for everything from Blogger to Google+.
• Google Sells Off Part of Motorola - Google is selling Motorola Mobility's TV set-top business for $2.35 billion, lightening the load that the Internet search leader took on earlier this year when it completed the biggest acquisition in its history.

If you've got a social media obsessed friend, here are some perfect gifts for this year:

Here's what you've missed this week:

• Square Now Sells Digital Gift Cards - The mobile-payments startup now offers users the option to buy digital gift cards through its Square Wallet app.
• Twitter To Offer Photo Filters By End Of 2012 - Here’s Twitter’s answer to Instagram’s plans to cut off embedding pictures on Twitter. Twitter, it’s being said, will be rolling out its own photo filters by the end of this year.
• Instagram Finally Introduces Crop and Scaling Tools - You'll no longer need to open up another app to crop and scale your photo; both can now be done in Instagram with a grid guide overlay. It is also reported that its tilt-shift feature has also been improved to provide "vastly more realistic rendering of depth of field."
• Google Maps Return to iPhone with New Mobile App - Google Maps returned late Wednesday with the release of the Google Maps' iPhone app. The release comes three months after Apple replaced Google Maps as the device's built-in navigation system and inserted its own maps into the latest version of the operating system.
• Flickr Updates iPhone App, Adds Filters - An all-new Flickr app was released with bigger picture presentation and the addition of 15 Instagram-like filters to enhance photos within a revised Apple iOS app for the iPhone and iPod touch.

When was the last time you angrily tweeted about a product or service you were unhappy about? Or maybe you took to Facebook? How many of those angry public posts got you a response from the company's customer service reps? Customer service is a huge, changing market right now with the widespread use of social media as a form of user testimonials. On this episode we will be talking about why this is a genius idea, how it fits into a social media strategy, and some best practices in the industry.


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Here's what you've missed this week in the world of social media, tech, and other fun stuff!

• The New Mashable - The new Mashable. It's more social, mobile, and visual - and now it's available to everyone.
• Facebook Governance Vote - Facebook is now letting users vote on the changes to its Statement of Rights and Responsibilities and Data Use Policy. (The proposed changes to these documents are what set off those viral hoax statuses last week.) So, read up and vote. Here's your chance.
• The 10 Most Overused LinkedIn Profile Buzzwords of 2012 - LinkedIn revealed its annual list of the 10 most-overused buzzwords job hunters use on the social network.
• Twitter Denies Accounts Can Be Hijacked Via Text Message - A researcher publicly posted about a possible hole in Twitter's security this week; a way hackers could take control of a user's account via SMS text message.
• Apple Launches iTunes Store in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan & Nine Additional Countries in Asia - Apple expands its global reach this week.
• Instagram to Twitter: We are never ever getting back together - Photos from Instagram are no longer displaying correctly on Twitter.

I came across this quote and I thought it was really powerful... then I realized that there are generations alive right now that will have never been able to experience developing film from negatives. Crazy!

It’s safe to say that everyone is now fully immersed in the holiday shopping season. Did you participate in online Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping? How does social shopping really dictate our online purchases?

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Here's the 411 this week:

• Don't Fall for the Fake Facebook Privacy Notice - If you're like me then all your gulible friends are falling for this FB privacy crap... again!
• Gmail Users Now Can Send 10GB Files - Google announced Tuesday that it will be integrating Google Drive into Gmail, a move that will make it possible to send files up to a massive 10GB in size over email.