Google solicited thousands of entries from K-12 students around the country and selected the top forty (ten doodles for each of the four grade groups). Winners of the contest will be featured on Google's homepage.

We are often asked by our clients at the beginning of an engagement to outline keys to an effective web project. We've likely all seen projects which start off promisingly and end badly -- either over budget or minus the cohesion necessary to meet the desired objectives. And while we can't give away the store for free (it took some convincing before Warner would let me post this!), we offer these three keys to starting -- and finishing -- a project successfully.

With its Yahoo Open Strategy, Yahoo drops its bid toward an open platform for custom application built on core elements of the web services site. As with other platform plays from Facebook and Google, Yahoo is trying to entice the third party development world with a host of assets and tools for extending the value -- and reach -- of the Yahoo product/service line.

Earlier this year Ann Arbor, Michigan-based book retailer Borders unveiled a new concept store in its hometown. With an eye to creating an environment more enticing to the digitally-enabled, the new store allows customers to not only purchase books but download music, lookup family ancestry and self publish as well.

With the launch of AdSense for Mobile Content last Thursday, Google -- along with its AdSense partner brethren -- has now stepped into what some experts say will be a mobile advertising market worth $10 billion by 2010 (EJL Wireless Research).

A recent article from online marketing e-zine ClickZ argues that we all need to get on better terms with our metadata.

Monster & Critics reports that the German edition of Wikipedia (Wikipedia Deutschland) will soon be available in print form.

Growing out of ever-mounting concerns about privacy and user tracking on social media sites in the wake of Facebook Beacon, an initiative called 'My Data Is My Data' (MDIMD) has released an IE plug-in (read "cookie crusher") to help users control the information shared with third parties and Beacon retailers.

Open source software -- with its emphasis on a network of programmers and developers to create and enhance the final product -- has led much of the Web 2.0 revolution. In recent years, groups of engineers are trying to apply the principles of Open Design to the development of a new kind of automobile.

Johnny Lee is a graduate student at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh. Thanks to YouTube, his hacks on the Nintendo Wii remote -- which include an interactive whiteboard and a head-mounted 3-D viewer among others -- have been seen by millions literally, according to Lee.