• 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

And of course she does it in lingerie.

Girls Aloud’s Nadine Coyle and Kimberley Walsh advertise the Nintendo Starter Pack for Nintendogs. Aren’t they a bit old for this?

A quick round-up of a new meme among EA Games’ Spore users. Gotta love UCG.

Unfortunately I can’t get this to run on my old G4 but it looks quite cool. Found it over at Amnesia’s blog where they also inform of a little special feature.
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Update: Got it to run with Camino. Must be a Firefox thing. It’s fun but wears off quickly. Would have been great with real video footage but understandably a bit ambitious. Nice wallpapers though.

A few years ago every man and his dog played the online strategy football game Hattrick. Now here’s the first virtual experience with the difference that you’re not in charge of a whole club but simply one player. The site’s slow as and usability wise it’s a nightmare too but they just scored Reebok as an advertising partner. Can’t say yet whether it’s good as I’m on the waiting list.
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