It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.

As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a good way.

Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.

As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.

The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.

'On demand' is more than just a series of clicks on your still-too-complicated remote control. In fact, it is now the best way to describe what the cable industry - from programmers to content makers to distributors - imagine their world is. Services and content available to very demanding consumers, wherever, whenever, however.