Like grandmother, like grandson.

Yesterday, I told my No. 1 son, Louie, that Twitter was down, after a denial-of-service attack.

He was–shall we say–not very sympathetic, as you will see in the video following the jump.

Interestingly, Louie’s response was similar to my mother’s, who mocked the microblogging service at a gas station on the way to my interview with its founders at the seventh D: All Things Digital conference.

As it turns out, though, data actually back them up.

(Plus, see their videos too.)

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Yesterday, Yahoo celebrated the fifth anniversary of the launch of its own search engine with some good news about its market share and by jazzing up its paid listings today with a plan to include pictures and video in the online ads.

Will the “rich” ad search product work better, a kind of digital little engine that could?

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BoomTown likes charts, so here are two recent ones from comScore and Nielsen about online video usage for November of 2008.

The pair have different results. But, overall, it’s up big time, year over year (40 percent!), as viewers have really started to up their time spent watching videos on the Web and also the number of videos they watch.

You can yammer all you like about cloud computing, but online video and its monetization is going to be the big story for 2009, because it is exactly where the audience is going.

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