Overworked? Overstressed? Undertanned? If the answer is "yes (and, honestly, who among us can't answer "yes" to all three?), you're a prime candidate for a Bahamavention, according to the creative minds at Fallon in Minneapolis, who developed the Bahamavention Web site.

The recent holiday shopping season spawned a new Web animal: the vendor shopping portal.

Oh, to be a fly on the (virtual) wall. Gaming advertisers have long wished they had better insight into players' behavior, both on and off gaming platforms.

Data security management no longer just means VPNs and firewalls. It includes preventing online abuse and fraud such as phishing, spamming, counterfeit sales, and unauthorized logo use.

The mobile online interface has taken another step toward following the Internet model, with the launch of Yahoo's new graphical advertising platform for its mobile Web service, which places small banners on some Yahoo mobile Web screens.

Now small businesses that want to try online video advertising can do so with FourSpots. This Atlanta-based startup describes itself as an online video ad exchange.

Interstitials certainly annoy some people. But Dan Entin has a hunch that mobile users will gladly view ads on their cell phones in exchange for free games -- something they're used to paying for.

The initial launch of the company that evolved into vSocial was, as co-founder and CEO Mark Sigal puts it, "spectacularly unsuccessful."

New Year's may have passed, but diet sites continue to keep weight-loss resolutions front and center. So how are these URLs taking advantage of the masses' weighty concerns while creating marketing opportunities?

Me-Media takes another dubious step forward with video avatar ringtones from online phone retailer Wirefly.