• First of the news of the day are that Jerry Yang steps down as Yahoo! CEO but will remain some form of Chief - here’s the internal all-staff memo
• A post on the evolution of the Chief Marketing Officer, Obama is employing a Chief Technology Officer for the whole US and a to-do list to become the social media champion at your office
• Razorfish creates for Intel’s Core i7 the Digital Drag Race
• Nike ACG Sweetspots website
• Top 50 Green Technology Blogs
• Steve Rubel bets on the end of tangible media by 2014 and here’s Mashable’s analysis
• TechCrunch reports that Facebook will start a verified apps program
• Research finds that blog content influences consumer buying behavior
• And web designers, Baekdal.com explains why you should design for a maximum width of 980px
• Africa’s size in perspective
• IBM study finds adoption of online, mobile content doubling
• Major League Baseball doesn’t wanna play ball with Silverlight anymore and goes back to Flash
• Always have smooth landings with the Landing Page Checklist
• Kontain, a free website for you to blog & share photos, videos and audio with friends, family and even beautiful strangers, just launched which is just what we all have been waiting for
• And McNeil Consumer Healthcare pulls an ad for painkiller Motrin due to rather negative feedback on social media sites about telling people how to wear a baby

Tim Brown’s talk at the TED conference last April.

Check out the gallery of the project on Flickr. [via]

• The One Velociraptor Per Child project wants to adequately educate every kid on this planet
• KickApps - social media apps on demand for your site
• Blogs influence purchases more than social networks
• US car sales are stuck in the toilet
• Download Greg Verdino’s free ebook 4 & 20 Blog Posts
• Aussies, have your say on the future of the ABC and make sure you check out the discussion paper Towards a Digital Future
• Dell case study by social media tracking tool Radian6: Free range marketing
• Now available: The data behind Razorfish’s digital consumer study
• Time’s 50 Best Inventions 2008
• Firefox surpasses 20% worldwide market share
• Fail: Microsoft’s Facebook millions paid back with Google election map
• Guy Kawasaki’s new book, Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition is now available
• Study: LinkedIn users rich (but still annoying)
• Watch CNN live and full-screen with VLC
• Top 15 trend questions (and answers)
• Young adults turn to MySpace for movie information
• Turn your favorite feeds into a personal magazine with Tabbloid
• This time Yahoo really wants Microsoft to buy them
• Photos of a python having a cockatoo for dinner
• Last but not least: support Francine and her 5 husbands, a viral campaign for coolcapitals.com

This cracker of a crib on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, by architects and interior designers McBride Charles Ryan (why all that Flashturbation?), just won the top honour for residential architecture, the Robin Boyd Award. Round up over at the SMH.

I’m off to Western Australia for 9 days to drive 2,000 klicks up north from Perth and back down again and see the famous pinnacles, swim with dolphins and so on.

In the meantime no posts so here’s a few collected links:

• Client Side Blog post on conversion counting more than ever In digital
• Campaign Brief Magazine online edition for free till end of the year (only July/August issue so far though)
• Will it blend? - interview with Tom Dickson
• Tourism Australia is happy with online sponsorship response
• Save cash on eBay thanks to other people’s typos with Fat Fingers
• Guns and toddlers are just not a good combo
• Minit - parent to parent advice
• 10 most sought-after skills in web development
• Forrester: New 2008 social technographics data reveals rapid growth in adoption
• PriceWaterhouseCoopers predicts that traditional media has 5 years left
• Last but not least: The first minute of Who’s Nailin’ Paylin (SFW but I wonder if there’s a McCain scene in this)

• 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