Pam just brought to my attention some new type of ads in Google’s Sponsored Links:

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Clicking on the title will take you to their landing page, and clicking on the “Directions” link will take you to a Google Maps search for the address – surprisingly, not the company listing or a Google Places page.  I also find it interesting that the blue pin-thingies in the Sponsored Links aren’t clickable.  I expected it to take me to a Google Maps result with that pin highlighted among other paid results… or something like that.

If you’re not caught up on our IM Road Trip shenanigans yet, read up on how we made a spontaneous decision to take a cross-country road trip to IM Spring Break!

Both Pam and I own the iPhone 3G and don’t know how we’d live without it.  Opening up the phone to take 3rd party applications is probably the best thing that Apple could have done.  However, I remember the times when I could install and test them all… but now there are so many apps to choose from!

Everyone knows that music is an essential variable in the road trip equation… We know that a lot of you are total music enthusiasts, so what better than to ask you all what we should listen to during our fabulously looong journey for IM Road Trip?

If you’ve been living under a floppy disk, and haven’t heard yet… Pamela Lund and I are going to be taking it  old-school with a cross-country Road Trip to IM Spring Break.

So… the lovely Pamela Lund, who will be speaking at IM Spring Break, came up with the crazy idea to take a road trip all the way from SoCal to Deerfield Beach, FL…

I thought it was an AMAZING idea and embraced it immediately!  I grew up on road trips and never stopped loving them!  I’ve probably visited at least half the states via road trippin’.  Like Pam, my last road trip was to PubCon in Vegas.  Cruisin’ the open road with @onehappyguy in the Cobra with the top down… good tunes and conversation… what’s not to like?