Linkdump 11

- Telstra’s Bigpond crew has a Twitter account but now they’re not so sure what that means with the spam act (this is actually quite an interesting discussion to follow as the spam act not really works with social media)
- RRW write-ups (part 1 and 2) on mobile phones as barcode scanners
- FutureBrand’s country brand index
- US women would rather play video games than sleep
- Who should you target as for PR efforts? (if you’re a tech company)
- Trendwatching’s October briefing on perkonomics
- CopyPasteCharacter.com helps with all those symbols you keep looking for
- Get into space for $2 (albeit your seat is only 1×1cm)
- Charlene Li’s (co-author of ‘Groundswell’) slides from some keynote about SM
- Get IE7 Pro
- Laurel Papworth is running with her Twitter Agency idea for chasing the Vodafone account
- Microsoft announced the release of a cloud OS
- Dan Aykroyd wants you to drink his Crystal Head vodka
- Google upgraded their Blog Search this week
- The Death of Small Talk, B&T’s relaunch campaign
- Google just updated the satellite images of the Great Barrier Reef so it’s preserved for the day after and you get to spot some sharks
- BusinessWeek’s tech special report on the best of the web 2008
- Finally: squirrel underpants protect the world from squirrel nudity
- Word Magazine’s album cover mapping mash-up
- Unnecessary knowledge generator
- ReadWriteWeb post about the approach to the semantic web
- And they also link to Nodalities Mag which you can subscribe to for free if you’re getting really excited about Web 3.0
- Audi R8-inspired boat
- Write-up about the campaign to launch some new teenie movie on Movie Marketing Madness
- Last but not least: Aussie politicans admit to smoking pot but ‘didn’t like it’


Hahaha, the Album Cover World Map is awesome. Thanks for the link.
Frank
What’s your take on the List of PR targets for tech companies? Do you think that list is useful?
I think it’s interesting to see which 10 sites are featured and good that not only TechCrunch gets kudos but when promoting something you’d have to go a little deeper as even between them there is a huge difference in content direction.