With the new year almost upon us, it’s time for filler posts to look back on the top posts from the previous year. Clearly, the syndicated cartoons are among the consistantly most popular posts.

Lynn Bender is the man behind GeekAustin.org, a community for Austin’s high-tech industry. The site contains news and postings of interest to the technical community, as well as information on the numerous real world events GeekAustin.org hosts.

My first guest blogging was published yesterday. I discuss Conversion and Google Maps Optimization at the Conversion Scientist website.

Most of the talk on the blogosphere today was on whether Google would purchase Twitter. There was relatively discussion of whether Google should purchase Twitter.

To gauge the feelings of bloggers, I surveyed countless postings about the proposed merger. I found them with a Google Blog Search for [google twitter]. Over fifty bloggers took an editorial position on the rumor.

This morning at PubCon here in Austin, Google’s Matt Cutts announced the Google Friend Connect API.

Google Friend Connect is a single login system for interactive websites such as blogs, forums or social networks. It can use your existing Google, Yahoo, AIM or OpenID account.