Chances are most of us use eBay, Amazon, and Yahoo, but they seem to have become non-players at the moment with respect to internet advertising.

On Monday AOL announced that it had acquired Userplane, a provider of private chat and instant messaging software for online communities.

Telephia released a report on Monday called the “U.S. Device Consensus Report for Q2 2006.” It indicates that in June of 2006 in excess of 34.6 million consumers browsed the Internet with their mobile devices.

According to a Hitwise blog post last week, Web traffic to del.icio.us has more than doubled since the social bookmarking site was purchased by Yahoo in December of 2005.

Online marketing firm eROI recently reported that open and click-through rates for marketing e-mails in the U.S. were highest on Saturdays for the second quarter of 2006. This finding breaks the trend from prior quarters.

Aptimus, Inc. (NASDAQ: APTM) today announced a relationship with AOL to place targeted performance-based advertising in transactional areas of the AOL network of leading Web brands.

Don’t look now, but there are 1,300+ Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) channels available free of charge on the Internet. And to think that back in the 1980s some thought cable TV was content overload, with its forty some-odd channels

The folks behind the Milk Mustache campaign break a campaign today that makes full-body contact with teens.

Nearly 50,000 car lovers are expected to take to the tracks in coming months in a Mazda vehicle as part of the automaker’s 10-city Zoom-Zoom Live Tour.

“This was a screw up, and we’re angry and upset about it,” said AOL spokesman Andrew Weinstein in a statement apologizing for the release of sensitive query logs earlier this week. What AOL needs to worry about now is…