The world may be buzzing about Steve Case resigning from AOL Time Warner but there are other interesting things happening today. This morning, in yet another attempt to get more subscribers, Yahoo! announced the launch of streaming video technology for its online dating service, Yahoo! Personals.

If you have any financial or banking institutions on your client list, look overseas for advice on promoting them online. Online banks have reached more than 30% of the active Internet audience in five major overseas markets in November.

Why does it seem like Ask Jeeves’ announcement to do away with banners on its sites has gone largely unnoticed by the online ad world?

I wonder how many New Years’ resolutions involved eating less and exercising more? Judging by the traffic to health, fitness and nutrition sites, it was quite a few.

Mulling over the last 12 months, you might vaguely remember a brief upswing of hype for wireless content delivery at the start of 2002. I, for one, vaguely recall hearing someone propose that 2002 would be the year wireless content would “save” the entire ad industry, which was too absurd a notion to debate. Fast-forward to January 2003.

A new year – a new research study dispelling an old myth. We’ve long thought that most people have about 13 favorite websites they visit on a regular basis and that set of favorites rarely changes. Not really so, says BURST Media, which recently found that nearly two-out-of-three (63.1%) frequently visit new websites. BURST also found that young web users (24 years and less) are less likely than older web surfers to say they "frequently visit new sites.”

Happy New Year and Happy 20th Birthday to all of us! Just in case anyone needs a reason to continue celebrating, according to technology historians, the Internet was born 20 years ago this week, on New Year's Day in 1983. That was the deadline for the Defense Department's Arpanet to begin using TCP/IP technology to link computers worldwide, which was the antecedent of the Internet we know today.