Death Of Email

Total unique US visitors to major e-mail sites like Yahoo and Hotmail peaked in November 2009 and have since slid 6%.

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Cost Per Action

Google is rolling out skippable video ads for YouTube that which early results suggest garner view-through rates of 20-70%.

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Yahoo! Clues

Yahoo! has just a new keyword research tool called Yahoo! Clues. Unlike Google Trends and Google Insights for Search, Clues attaches demographic data to keywords. Very cool.

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Google Instant Preview

Google has rolled out a new search feature they call Instant Preview. It is essentially, an image preview feature that allows you to check out the page associated with a link in search results prior to visiting the actual page.

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YouTube Spam

Google needs to do a better job of identifying and filtering out video spam from YouTube search results pages.

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A Pulverized Android G1 Google Smart Phone

This is a sad, sad story. Natalie Wires, my colleague at Tunheim Partners, had her Android G1 Google smart phone demolished on Tuesday. She set it on top of her car, forgot about it, drove off, and it fell onto the street. When she went back to look for it, she was stopped at a…

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