For a moment, playback to last November. Life was a lot different. We just voted in a new president. Florida had not won it’s second college football national championship in three years yet. And the economy was in the tank. OK, maybe not *everything* has changed.

Life was a lot different in the world of social media, too. For those of us who live and breathe in this space, we know it operates at a whole new speed. So, I thought we’d have a little fun with this and look at some of the trends and changes we’ve witnessed in the last six months:

November–Chris Brogan (still a rock star, by the way–always will be)

April–Amber Naslund (too many to name, but Amber’s definitely a star of stars)

November–Shannon Paul (let’s face it, she’s knocked the door down, barged on through and is on to the next room already)

April–David Mullen (big things ahead for this fella–especially given his announcement yesterday)

November–Tweetdeck

April–Seesmic Desktop

November–Web 2.0

April–Conversation (maybe I need to change the title of this blog)

November–Facebook

April–Twitter (1,300% growth year over year)

November–David Armano helping a homeless mother of 3 (even though it was really in January)

April–Danny Brown’s 12for12K/Chris Brogan shaving his head for charity

November–Parents joining Facebook

April–Celebrities joining Twitter

November–Transparency

April–Listen, then engage

November: Shaq

April: Ashton Kutcher

November: Rachel Kay (A soft spot in my heart for Rachel)

April: Lisa Hoffmann (I couldn’t resist, Lisa!)

November: Comcast (Frank and crew are still rocking it)

April: Southwest Airlines (Gotta give huge love to my SWA friends for flying me to BlogPotomac in June!)

November: HARO (still going strong)

April: Twitter chats (Journchat, blogchat, gno, smbiz, etc)

What categories would you add? What did I miss?