As we wind down on 2007, it's a good time to look back and see how much the Internet landscape has changed in the last year.

Internationally there have been some big shakeups, led by the dramatic effects of the meteoric rise of Facebook to prominence, both good and bad. On these shores, too, there has been plenty of online action, so we've rounded up some of the events that have reshaped the Japanese Internet landscape this year.

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