A video of Apple's PC design, morphing over the years.

This is the anti-Google "Don't Be Evil?" video ad created by the non-partisan public interest group Consumer Watchdog.

This group, which runs the website “Inside Google”, has purchase advertising space on a 540-square-foot digital billboard in Times Square. 

The animation presents Google CEO Eric Schmidt giving little kids free ice cream and secretly gathering their personal information. 

Below is the short-version cartoon. 

Apple unveiled this week its updated and tiny TV set-top box, with streaming functionality and 99-cent TV rentals from ABC and Fox (other broadcasters have yet to commit to the service.)

Steve Jobs demonstrated a new iTunes-based social network for music called Ping, as well as an upgraded iPod line. The new iPod Touch includes FaceTime with its front- and back-facing cameras. (On-device editing and direct upload to YouTube will also be possible.)

The new Apple TV is a quarter of the size of the original box, with all-HD content, cloud storage and Netflix and YouTube access. The $229 price drops to $99, with pre-orders available.

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Watch Steve Jobs' keynote here.

Social video and media apps have become a hot market.

These apps allow content distributors capture users' info and data associated with their TV and online viewing, since users can comment on and rate the video. 

The last sample is Clicker. Its new iPhone app is available this week. The app will act as a companion to Clicker.com and Clicker.tv, enabling users to search for iPhone-ready video, share what they're watching with friends and create playlists of shows and videos they can save for later.

However, since the iPhone doesn't support Flash, there's not nearly as much video content that can be watched on the mobile device as on the web. 

Other social video sites and app makers are Tunerfish, Miso and Philo.
 

Some smart video creators are pushing the boundaries of what YouTube's in-video annotations feature can do for content, creating multiple options for a story. 

One of the best examples is Deliver Me To Hell, created to promote the New Zealand-based Hell Pizza franchise. Enjoy it.

Google has unveiled a new real-time search page, google.com/realtime. It displays up-to-the-second results from sources like Twitter, Facebook, Buzz and other social networks. 

Google Real Time allows users to search for a particular topic, and see what people are saying about it in real-time.

As real-time Web exploded, other search engines, like Twitter's and Bing, became more useful for those who wanted quick access to live updates. 
 

Now Google offers phone calls over the Web to landlines or cellphones via Gmail.

The service puts Google into direct competition with Skype (124 million users worldwide). Also it makes Google a more ubiquitous part of people's social interactions by uniting the service for phone calls with e-mail, text messages and video chats.

Calls to numbers in the United States and Canada will be free at least through the end of the year. International calls are really cheap.

Gmail has offered voice and video chat for two years, but both parties must be at their computers. 

Facebook has posted its promotional video for Places feature. 
In the video, the Facebook team pitch the value of Places for enhancing everyday life.