Not quite safe for work, directed by Sibling Rivalry and obviously no connection to Microsoft. Courtesy of Frank.

• 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

More about the Upscaling product line on toshiba.co.uk/upscaling, the making of the ad, which used 200 Toshiba Gigashot cameras and generated 20TB of data, below:

• IDC predicts the global IT spending growth grinding down to crawl
• Nielsen post on the internet’s role in offline purchasing
• Ogilvy preso on Twitter for business, and like MRM Worldwide Ogilvy also uses Radian6 to track social media
  
• Gerd Leonhard’s presentation on the future of advertising, media, marketing and business at TribalDDB
• The new brand landscape by Helge Tenno
• Web 10.0, a presentation from Kevin Kelly on the future of the web, from the Web 2.0 conference
• Microsoft releases major update to Windows Live - will you switch from your Facebook? (RRW)
• World’s hairiest dog gives birth to 9 puppies
• Google analyst sees worst economic environment in our collective lifetimes (TC)
• Camera porn: RED introduces modular DSLR cameras
• A javascript plugin lets you generate QR Codes from your browser toolbar
• Developer porn: Protonotes, a HTML collaboration tool for prototyping
• 25GB in 70 seconds with USB 3.0
• Darren Rowse from ProBlogger launched a new Twitter tips blog: TwiTip
• Definition of a Social Media Whale
• Free custom Google maps in minutes with Aardvark Map
  

A Nokia campaign promoting their E series phones with its push email and attachment viewing capabilities. Get rid of some files yourself on the-unloader.com.

Morgan Stanley’s analysts publish this report every 6 months or so, here’s the latest presentation by Mary Meeker from the Web 2.0 Summit. You can download a PDF here.