I would say that 2010 was a successful year for social media and its the same story for YouTube with users watching more than 700 billion YouTube videos during year and uploaded more than 13 million hours of video.

Here is a list of the top ten most watched YouTube videos during 2010 based on the view counts of videos uploaded during 2010, these exclude major label music videos.

1. BED INTRUDER SONG!!! (now on iTunes)

2. TIK TOK KESHA Parody: Glitter Puke – Key of Awe$ome #13

3. Greyson Chance Singing Paparazzi

4. Annoying Orange Wazzup

5. Old Spice | The Man Your Man Could Smell Like

6. Yosemitebear Mountain Giant Double Rainbow 1-8-10

7. OK Go – This Too Shall Pass – Rube Goldberg Machine version

8. THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE – Trailer

9. Jimmy Surprises Bieber Fan

10. Ken Block’s Gymkhana THREE, Part 2; Ultimate Playground; l’Autodrome

At the beginning of this year Twitter surpassed the 10 billion tweets marks, now 2010 is at its end and 25 billion tweets later Twitter is giving us a window into what the world was talking about on Twitter over the year.

A massive 25 billion tweets was sent during 2010, and out of those 25 billion Twitter has identified the top 10 tweets of 2010 as well as the leading Trends in eight categories: News Events, People, Movies, Television, Technology, World Cup, Sports and Hashtags.

Top 10 Twitter Trends of 2010

1. Gulf Oil Spill
2. FIFA World Cup
3. Inception
4. Haiti Earthquake
5. Vuvuzela
6. Apple iPad
7. Google Android
8. Justin Bieber
9. Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows
10. Pulpo Paul

Its clear that South Africans made their mark in the social sphere with the Word Cup and Vuvuzela being in the top 10 Twitter trends of 2010.

For a comprehensive list of Twitter trends for 2010 broken up in categories visit the Top Twitter Trends in 2010 website.

With out a doubt one can easily say that 2010 was the year of the mobile App, with just about everybody jumping on board and releasing their own iOS, Android and Blackberry Apps, but what changed the way we consume mobile media even more was the release of the Apple iPad. Suddenly app makers had so much more screen real-estate, power and features to work with.

Every year Apple releases its annual iTunes Rewind feature where it names all the apps that are worth owning, and good for them cause with more than 300 000 apps in the Apple iTunes App Store, choosing the right one can sometimes be a bit difficult.

Its no surprise that Flipboard has taken the number one spot as the Apple iPad App of the year, this is definitely my favorite App for the iPad too.

Now if I were to choose the iPad game of the year I would give it hands down to Angry Birds, Angry Birds is in almost all of the iOS top 10 App categories for this year and rightfully so. The addictive game where you catapult birds has been a huge success with just about every iOS user this year, and its fame does not stop at the iOS platform. Unfortunately iPad game of the year went to Osmos for iPad.

Top iPad Apps of 2010

Top 10 Free iPad Apps

1. iBooks
2. Pandora Radio
3. Netflix
4. Google Mobile App
5. Solitaire
6. Movies by Flixster–with Rotten Tomatoes
7. IMDb Movies & TV
8. Kindle
9. Google Earth
10. Virtuoso Piano Free 2 HD

Top 10 Paid iPad Apps

1. Pages
2. GoodReader for iPad
3. Numbers
4. Angry Birds HD
5. Keynote
6. Glee Karaoke
7. WolframAlpha
8. Pinball HD
9. Friendly Plus for Facebook
10. Star Walk for iPad

What is your favorite iPad App of 2010?

It’s that time of the year again where the blogsphere are filled with posts from blogs on how much effort they put into the site and promising to post more regularly if your vote for them etc etc, yea you guessed it, it’s SA Blog Awards time.

This year will be the first year I will be taking part in the SA Blog Awards and have already been nominated in the categories of Best New Blog and Best Science and Technology Blog, the precise categories I was aiming to be nominated in.

If you are a blogger and have hopes to get somewhere in the 2010 SA Blog Awards, Chris over at iMod did a nice post on 5 things you can do to help you win the SA Blog Awards. Chris has some very valid and good suggestions, so go give it a read.

The main reason for this post is to explain to you how the nomination process works, as its currently a bit misleading on the SA Blow Awards site. Before you even submitted your nomination you are already greeted with message “Thank you! You have nominated www. yourdomain .com” which in fact is not true because there is still a confirmation process to go through.

Here is how to nominate your favorite blogs for the 2010 SA Blog Awards:

1. Head over to SA Blog Awards nomination page or click on the badge on the blog you’d like to vote for.
2. If you clicked the badge your nominations should show on the right hand side, otherwise simply choose the category and enter the blog URL or click the green thumbs up if the blog is already nominated. You must at least nominate 2 blogs.
3. Once you are happy with your selection, enter your email address in the box on the right hand side and enter the captcha security code and submit.
4. You are almost done, wait for a confirmation email from the SA Blog Awards, inside the email there is a confirmation link, follow it and your nomination is complete.

That is, you have now nominated for your favorite blog in the 2010 SA Blog Awards, remember this in only the nomination round. You can vote up until the 27th of August 2010 and then the judges will choose the top nominations and then the voting round will start. Once public voting in completed the judges also get to vote and then the total vote works out with 70% from public vote and 30% from judges.

Go on, go nominate your favorite SA Blog.

In less than 47 days the 19th FIFA World Cup will be taking place here in South Africa. Preparing and keeping updated on this great event can be cumbersome but great news is that Android users have an application to make things a bit easier.

The FIFA World Cup is scheduled to take place between the 11th June 2010 and the 11th of July 2010, the 2010 FIFA World Cup marks the first time that the tournament will be hosted on the African continent where defending champions Italy will defend their title.

The 2010 FIFA World Cup application for Android provides users with the following functions:

• Countdown clock
• Game Schedule
• Group and Team statistics
• Head-to-head statistics
• Match reminders
• FIFA 2010 World Cup News
• View/Add match comments
• Real time match scores when the World Cup is underway.

The developer also has a score prediction game on the decks for when the FIFA World Cup is underway. Go to the Android market and Search for 2010 World Cup by Luke Shuan or simply scan the QR Code below that will take you to the application.

One of the biggest music festivals every year with great international and local lineups will not happen this year. The Coke Zero Fest is probably the most anticipated rock music event every year, but fans will have to anticipate extra longer this year.

Although there has not been an officially released statement by Coca-Cola South Africa, Dionne Domyan from Penny Stein Promotions confirmed that the Coca Zero Fest will not happen this year.

“The sad news is that there is no Coke Zero Fest this year as Coca-Cola are one of the major sponsors of the Fifa World Cup so all their energy (and resources) have been channeled to this event,” Domyan told Entertainment Africa.

“We are however hoping for an official statement from Coca-Cola in the next few days regarding this,” Domyan continued.

Facebook has been flooded by the news on various groups by fans expressing their disappointment, while some groups have already started suggesting what bands they want to see in the 2011 line up. The list include Paramore, Linkin Park and Red Hot Chili Peppers, right through to Green Day, My Chemical Romance and Slipknot.

Some good news though is that if you were looking forward to one hell of a rock show you can always go rock away at Ramfest IV. Ramfest will be taking place February 26 – 27 at Worcester and for the first time in Gauteng on the 6th of March.

Some of the local bands you will be able to see at Ramfest include Fokofpolisiekar, The Narrow, The Dirty Skirts, Jack Parow, Die Heuwles Fantasties and Taxi Violence just to name a few. This years international act is Pendulum from Australia & UK

The official beginning of the 2010 soccer world cup kicks off this Friday (4 December 2009) with the Final Draw, being held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. Before, during and after the group draw at 7pm, festivities will be held on Long Street in Cape Town, where more than 15 000 people are expected to celebrate with music and fanfare.

Please note that Long Street and the adjoining streets would be closed to traffic and transformed into a pedestrian zone from Wale Street to the Long Street baths for the day.

Local artists including Freshlyground, Jimmy Dludlu and TKZee are expected to entertain party-goers.

If you are free this weekend why not head on over to Long Street this Saturday and partake in the World Cup 2010 Draw festivities.

With the Mayan calendar ending in 2012 never before has a date in history been so significant to so many cultures, so many religions, scientists, and governments.

2012 is an epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors, a large group of people that must deal with natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions, typhoons and glaciers.

Starring John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt and Thandie Newton.

2010 will premiere in local cinemas on Friday 4th of December 2009.

The 2010 Cape Town Greenpoint stadium is progressing nicely and nearing completion. Work on the stadium is being done around the clock to ensure that the stadium is completed on time and handed over to the City of Cape Town.

The stadium is expected to be finished on December 4 and handed over to the City of Cape Town on December 14, 2009.

You can find daily photos of the progress of the 2010 Cape Town Greenpoint Stadium on http://greenpointstadium-and-capetown.blogspot.com/

All Images Copyright © FromJoanne

Cape Town was yesterday officially apointed as the venue where the 2010 Soccer World Cup final draw – at which all the qualifying soccer teams will be allotted into groups – will take place.

The week-long event will culminate in a draw on December 4 at which the 32 participating teams will be divided into eight groups and is the last milestone before the tournament kicks off next year.

The draw is expected to attract more than 2000 guests, including all the qualifying teams’ coaches and captains, and will be held at the city’s Green Point Stadium, which is still under construction. Cape Town mayor Dan Plato said construction was on track and the stadium would be completed in time for the draw.

To date, 800000 of the 3,2-million World Cup tickets have been sold, with 240000 snapped up by South Africans, 57000 sold in the US and 27000 in Australia. Not many tickets have been sold in the rest of Africa, although Ghana is an exception.

Another concern among Cape Town residents was whether the R4,5bn Green Point Stadium would be viable after the World Cup, especially after the Western Province Rugby Union indicated that it was not interested in trading Newlands for the new stadium.

[via BusinessDay]