Linkdump 13

- Scientific study finds web search improves brain activity
- MarketingSherpa released their 2009 Email Marketing Benchmark Guide - the exec summary is available as a free PDF
- Flashplayer 10 and Silverlight 2 have been released
- Sequoia Capital presentation on startups and the economic downturn
- Doritos banner takeover plugin campaign is a great idea but the website is not up - fail
- David Armano on unconventional marketing
- NASA says space smells like steak
- Kenya’s elephants send text messages to rangers
- Microsoft’s new website for web pros
- Facebook announces 25 winning applications to receive funding
- If you think your shoes are uncomfortable think again
- Twitter Search, useful tool to find out what people are saying about a topic
- The search for a good tagline for Windows 7
- And here’s the explanation why 7
- An article about Australia’s great firewall, courtesy of Duncan
- Brandweek on some study around marketers using viral video
- Dropbox - easy sharing between computers of all different platforms
- Interactive Dobpler LED wall from Norway
- Live Search Maps mistakes pond for Atlantic Ocean – Fail.
- Dell wants you to contribute to the first-ever crowdsourced whitepaper
- Facebook now stores a Petabyte of pictures and traffic peaks at over 300k images per second
- And then there’s Dell’s social media help for small businesses on Facebook
- TechCrunch’s post on Federated Media’s new way of measuring campaigns
- ‘I Am Under 18′ button clicked for first time in history of the internet
- Walt Mossberg on Google’s G1 phone
- Why Windows Mobile is in trouble
- Seth Godin lets you download his Tribes ebook for free
- 20 sites helping you to master user interface design
- And a free whitepaper on mobile advertising for newbies
- MySpace launches MyAds so small businesses can create their own, templated creative (makes you wonder why Google didn’t come up with this ages ago as part of AdSense)
- h+, a web-based quarterly magazine, available as a free PDF
- Guns N’ Roses hunt for an ad agency to promote their album Chinese Democracy

