Because I’m feeling a little scattered today, this blog entry is a veritable potpourri of stuff.

Google has opened its television ad program to all marketers. The company has been testing the TV Ads platform, which uses an auction model, since June of 2007. The analytics include how many seconds consumers were tuned into an ad (per impression) and how many consumers watched from start to finish. The program allows businesses to reach upwards of 13 million Dish Network households from 94 different cable networks.

Unless you were living under a rock this weekend you must have heard that one of the potentially largest deals in the technology sector fell apart.

I’ve spent much of the week at Web 2.0 Expo. Man, the show was good and very well attended. It was also super well organized. And the Blogtropul.us (a room for bloggers) was hopping with people streaming live, blogging, doing video and writing up real time accounts from the show. There was even yoga happening in there.

I’m finally recovered from last week’s Ad:Tech San Francisco madness. It was a great conference. Now, I’m prepping for this week’s onslaught of Web 2.0 Expo. There seems to be a huge buzz around this show. Everyone I talk with is eagerly anticipating the conference or maybe they are just hyped up about the many parties that are planned. Anyway, you slice it I expect this to be a fantastic week of schmoozing and learning more.

Earlier this week the market researcher the e-tailing group put out its 7th annual Merchant Survey. The study reveals that merchants are taking a laser focused approach, doing more with less online and streamlining for performance and profitability.

Gary Vaynerchuk is just a bundle of warm fuzzies wrapped in ball of sunshine topped with a heaping helping of positive energy. I have no idea how he stays so upbeat but I’m trying to take a cue from him. I think we all could benefit from his outlook.

Revenue has published many articles on the merits of using video as an online marketing tool. There are lots of people pushing the video blogging envelope in the online marketing space - Sam Harrelson, Mark Wielgus, Jim Kukral, Shawn Collins and many others. What you should note about this list is not that most of these folks are well known in the online marketing industry (they are) but that they are men.

Today is Good Friday and so far the day has lived up to its name. If for nothing else than I’m only hours away from it being the weekend.

Truthfully, the reason that it’s been such a good day for me is that I’m spending lots of time playing with my new ASUS eee PC. Shawn Collins may be touting the value of his Vostro but I love, love, love my new tiny little laptop.