2007 was a heck of a year here at Mashable. Throughout the year there were some standout stories based on any number of criteria. This list is a sampling of the stories that shaped the year behind us.
* Barack Obama’s MySpace Ambitions - February 2007 and Obama is looking to social networking to help his political ambitions and… wait a minute… a full 21 months before the 2008 Presidential election? Wow, forward thinking much?
* Adobe Photoshop Online - “So Adobe made a huge revelation today, saying it plans to launch a web-based version of Photoshop within six months.
* On YouTube, YouChoose Obama - It’s amazing how much politics shaped this year online, and this is another example of it. Even more coverage of Obama in the very early days of the campaign, it seemed like he was everywhere at this point.
* EMI First Label to Go Without DRM? - From April 1st of this year, you almost had to think it was an April’s Fool joke, little did we know this the beginning of a snowball of DRM-free music and changes in the industry as a whole.
* My Soul, and 10 Other Things that Google Owns - Adam gives us a crash course in just how much Google has penetrated our lives. It seems you can’t do anything online any more without the Big G being involved in some way, shape, or form.
* June 29th - You kinda have to mention the whole day since it was when the iPhone was unleashed on the world. We continued with news, but it did almost turn into “All iPhone all the time day”, but you had to admit, was, and is, one heck of a sexy device.
* Radiohead to Let Fans Pick the Price for New Album - Oh those crazy kids in Radiohead with their idea of letting consumers decide what to pay! Who knew other people would listen to them?
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