Ad Industry:

• It's synergy time at Razorfish and Digitas.

Social Media:

• Google experiments with public domain name system (DNS).
• Google Friend Connect competes with Facebook Connect.
• YouTube launches beta to serve video watch pages with the lowest latency possible.

Search:

• Bing upgrades Map with Twitter overlay, streetside view, 3D.
• Google measures site speed with new tool, Site Performance.
• Google unveils new look for home page.

Smartphone:

• Apple predicted to offer 300,000 iPhone apps, tablet in 2010.
• Battle rages in war for mobile applications market.

Web 2.0:

• Social dating site Zoosk raises $30 million.

Legal Issues/Regulatory:

• AT&T, Verizon drop suits over 3G coverage ads.