In terms of Christmas light decorating, no one is going to compare to Clark Griswold who completely shut down a grid when lighting his house up for Christmas. However, these Christmas light displays are incredible and are deserving of your …

This is what happens when you put Google Earth on a 48 screen display. In other words, awesome stuff, provided looking at life-sized representations of the cities and places you love does something for you. For me, just seeing it …

A Japanese Mac blog, Macotakara, is claiming that Sony Mobile Display Corporation and Hitachi Displays have begun shipping new 4-inch displays for a new iOS device. The blog doesn’t elaborate which device the new dispalys will be used for, but …

The U.S. online advertising industry will shake off the recession’s effects and have an excellent time of it in 2010, according to one expert.  J.P. Morgan’s Imran Khan has predicted that just about every aspect of the sphere should experience significant growth this year.

The Pink Tentacle blog writes (update: currently getting a quota exceeded message there):

Yahoo has been very good at working the display advertising business, and although weakness in the automotive and financial markets depressed that business, Microsoft’s deal could strengthen it again.

Compete.com has moved its Search Analytics out of private beta into a ‘pay as you go’ model, while ComScore introduced its Ad Metrix Publisher for advertisments.

Who knew display ads might actually be useful? A new study from Yahoo and comScore finds that online display ads produced 11% lift in dollars spent in in-store conversions. Search ads yielded a 26% lift in dollars spent.

Most impressive, however, was the result from a combination of search and online display ads: a 83% lift in dollars spent in later in-store conversion. The combination also increased incremental in-store revenue 90% (as opposed to 43% with search-only ads and 15% with display-only).

If you’ve got a great idea, but lack a cash flow – or if the opposite happens to be true – Vator.tv may be just the place for you.  The site, which launched yesterday, intends to let “[a]nyone, across all industries, at any stage … share ideas, products, services and businesses with the rest of the world, mainly through video.”