Get Ready for a Tsunami of Political Ads on Facebook and Google

In a few months, you won't be able to check your news feed or your Gmail account without being bombarded with political ads. At least, that's what Facebook and Google are preparing for--and, understandably, hoping for.

While the 2008 election was really the first 21st-century election in terms of its use of new media and new technology, adoption and progression of those same technologies (and some new ones) are moving fast enough that the internet is even more ripe for advertising in 2010...