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Happy New Year! May you and your family be blessed in 2010 and the years to come! To start off the New Year, I wanted to list off some random thoughts in the tech and online world that have impacted me.

Do you own an iPod, iPhone or a Mac? A decade ago, that idea that one would choose a Mac over a PC was unthinkable. In 2000, I was a PC (and a Linux geek). Today, I am still a Linux geek, while I use a Mac at home and at work. 

The Mac and OS X transformed the consumer computing experience. This transformation has inspired a decade of new ideas and devices making Apple undoubtedly the most influential brand.  As I wrote earlier about the Apple Tablet, it could easily alter the mobile computing space again. Would Windows 7 be what it is today if it wasn’t for Apple?

Online search has changed dramatically. Yahoo is no longer numero uno. Have you used a metacrawler lately? Do you need to “Google it?”  We will see what Bing does this coming decade and what comes about from real-time search.

Google announced yesterday that they are combing relevant results with the real-time web.  The results include data from Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, Jaiku and Identi.ca. 

Here is a sample result showing real-time data:

This has been talked about around the blogosphere for the past few months. Glad to see this incorporated in a way that doesn’t exclude the relevant results. To see more trending topics, check out Google Trends.

On a side note, Bing has had a twitter feed for a little while.  Haven’t found it to be any more useful than the existing twitter search functions.  What do you think?

Ever thought that Twitter isn’t here to stay? Think again.

A few days ago, LinkedIn and Twitter launched a partnership to allow you to cross-publish your LinkedIn status update to Twitter and visa-versa.  For the full breakdown on LinkedIn’s blog, click here.

Now, only if my TweetDeck client had integration with LinkedIn! Happy tweet-IN!

I was reading Seth Godin’s blog the other day and was intrigued by his take on Dunbar’s Number. It got me thinking about the real value of a your friend/follower/network beyond 150.

According to Wikipedia, Dunbar's number is a theoretical cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships.

When Dunbar came up with this number, the idea of Facebook, LinkedIn, Myspace and Twitter did not exist. What you are your thoughts and what is your tipping point?