Now that we are stuck with Cyber Monday as a designation for the first Monday after Thanksgiving, eBay has promoted the second Monday of December as Green Monday.

The scarce Nintendo Wii ranked as the most searched-for item during the holidays, while Ugg boots drew the most luxury item queries.

The Center for Digital Democracy and the Electronic Privacy Information Center have filed a Freedom of Information Act request for information from the FTC about DoubleClick and law firm Jones Day.

A Swedish newspaper feels it is facing a new kind of competition: Facebook. After a focus group revealed that 20-somethings spent so much time at Facebook, Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet decided the social network was its main competitor. That is, after its traditional (and long-defeated) news rival, a tabloid called Expressen. Jan Helin, editor-in-chief of Aftonbladet, tells the Media Culpa blog that the reality of the online market is a competition for time. Though Expressen was the main competitor, "the picture is more complex in reality, we compete about people's time and with what you do online." Over at BuzzMachine, Jeff Jarvis thinks the newspaper is looking at the wrong way, and that they should focusing on ways to embrace the Facebook crowd:

Maybe car or restaurant reviews seem a little more useful, but no matter; Google is now allowing people to rate and comment on everything created with its My Maps software.

HBO has tapped Nielsen to measure the cable networks ratings for its video on demand programming. HBO is the first network to have access to the viewer data for it s video-on- demand service Nielsen said.