Finally an apparently threat to Google... Let's see how it woks!

Very good thought. This links to Dan's mantra: "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
I am happy for your wife to have a father excited like you about child-learning experience!

Very good post, Laura. I am still very skeptical about all the fuss about Facebook. I think it is useful to contact with not so close friends, and to search for "lost" friends... But is it really "monetizable"?...

Two things:
1. When people say they prefer VOD for free with ads, are they able to skip the ads by fast forwarding when viewing?
2. One very useful action would be to ask people to sign up to view only the categories of ads they are interested in.

Thanks for that Polina, I was a target customer to your post... Now I am more inclined to start using Twitter!

Only 5% to 10% increase in CTR? I think this is the old difference between form and content, appearance and inner quality. Google share in the search market is increasing because of the quality of their results, which are always relevant to the users, not because of the format of the sponsored ads. If Yahoo is not doing a good job in selecting relevant ads to show in the search pages, to put videos to them could even bother the user a little more...

Thank you Guinea Pig for facilitating multi-tasking, the favourite sport of today's youth... We can hear your blog while surfing in other websites or playing games.

From what I understood they are Sponsored Banners in the NY Times website, for example, that are not only simple banners but links to relevant articles (PR for IBM). But I did not get if they show these banners in random NYT pages, or only when there's some content related to the banners (such as energy).

Some interesting features that could be added to the e-menu are the nutritional facts for your whole meal, and a selection of wines that would taste better with your food.

This is a very helpful tool indeed, if it works well. It's the visual equivalent of searching for a word in your Google Mail. In this world of information overload, everything that can help finding the needle in the haystack is very welcome!