Ad Technology:

• Big money bet on display ad technology.

Privacy:

• Microsoft quashed effort to boost online privacy.

• What they know about you.

• The web's new gold mine - your secrets.

Search:

• Google: the last thing we want is for the best SEO to win.

Social Media:

• Sites in like, not love, with Facebook link.Amazon shows how to protect a brand will connecting to Facebook.

• Empire Avenue broadly opens its stock exchange for trading friends.

• Media companies try getting social with Tumblr.

• Twitter follows Facebook with Suggested Accounts.

Mobile Computing:

• RIM answers Apple iPad with the BlackPad.

• Microsoft needs a tablet strategy, not a tablet.

Pearls of Wisdom:

• Launch an e-mail marketing campaign in 7 easy steps.