its coming to the end of the year, so it only seems appropriate to look back and evaluate how the year went.

It was a rough year for our industry. We started out with some serious bad news in world economics, with banks failing and countries needing to be bailed out. Then summer hit our industry where it hurt, with the closure of some big programs like Python and WegCash, while others just stopped paying like the SOBV family and Hot House, and some even closed and reopened like EuroRevenue. And of course, ePassporte's failure and WebmasterCheck's DOJ seizure caused a huge ripple in payouts, and we are still waiting for fund releases from both of these places.

But the good news seems to be that those who weathered through the summer of hell are reporting sales increasing in Oct and Nov, and there seems to be a bit of optimism that the worse is behind us.

Personally, its been a year of acquisitions for me, starting with BritishBucks and LatinoBucks (formerly AlexanderBucks), and ending with GayWideWebmasters. We also ventured into the mobile market with 9 gay mobile sites under the HunkMoney program. And of course, we released 4 new sites and a whole new affiliate site under LatinoBucks. So, although the year could have been a lot better, I am still quite happy with the way things progressed, all things considering!

So what about you? How did you fair? Share your most notable events of 2010!