• First of please note that today is the International Talk Like A Pirate Day and this handy translator is here to help
• User Experience (UX) is the new account planning (also check out a post on Adweek)
• If you want to stay up to date on everything green Alltop has a nice aggregation of feeds
• 10 reasons your company or client shouldn’t start a blog
• Facebook is the new Outlook, and other ways that Redmond is not listening to Generation Y
• Digg + Twitter = Dwigger
• Online TV provider Joost finally abandons the app and lets you watch Bridezilla on demand from your browser
• Interesting post on who owns the brand in the social space based on the recent actions of Hasbro with Scrabulous
• Textures, tons of different textures
• Backtype: follow/find comments across the web
• Charles Darwin to receive apology from the Church of England for rejecting evolution
• Australia studies talk knowledge, incidence, mortality of prostate cancer
• Pew report on the use of cloud computing applications and services
• Pew also reports that video games are not harmful for kids
• Virtualbox 2.0 released which runs on all platforms
• Microsoft IE8 DM creative helps against irresponsible internet slicing
• Moving beyond Microsoft’s ‘Mojave Experiment’
• LinkedIn launches The LinkedIn Audience Network and you can finally target deeply by whatever people profile themselves
• 80 large background websites
• Adrants’ slightly different interpretation of Metallica’s new album cover art
• BMW achieves 30% conversion on MMS marketing
• Nearly 70% of businesses allow SM use
• A bit of colour education in DM
• On the same blog I also found this post on postal experiments
• Feeling distracted?
• Internet marketing tactics poll without surprises but interesting results nevertheless
• The world’s best places to live – courtesy of Duncan
• WSJ relaunches website (and apparently has 2m unique visits each day)
• Last but not least Tim Berners Lee, the inventor of the internets, launches World Wide Web Foundation

The VP of Sightix doing a demo about their visual search app that integrates into social networks. But hey, please, demonstrating a search for bars where models hang out? You gotta be able to do better than that.

A Universal McCann presentation about the interwebs turning us all into influencers.

• eMarketer report on social networking for Baby Boomers
• A list of social media marketing examples which is great if you need case studies for something
• Puma’s Chasing Bolt microsite
• Adweek article on TV networks’ adoption of the online space to push their shows
• Campaign Brief magazine now online as emag
• Tommy TV - branded music portal by Tommy Hilfiger
• Yammer – Twitter for businesses (Just shined at the TC50 conference)
• Vodafone trials Facebook utility
• Virtualisation’s coming to a desktop near you with the co-operation of HP and Mozilla
• Snow Patrol will become the first artists to deliver an interactive album application for the iPhone
• Visa uses Facebook to seduce SMBs
• Adweek’s Digital Hot List
• iPhone is the next ad frontier
• KallOut - search with your mouse
• HBO launches a web video show
• A social network for the fashion minded

Meet PMSBuddy, a free online warning system. Also as a Facebook app. Here’s a little taste:

… with a single goal in mind: to keep you aware of when your wife, girlfriend, mother, sister, daughter, or any other women in your life are closing in on “that time of the month” - when things can get intense for what may seem to be no reason at all.

I reckon there’s gotta be a brand behind this but couldn’t figure it out yet. Then maybe not and it’s ‘just’ a business model punting with the Google ads.

Last week we had the pleasure to host Gen Y expert Anders Sormann-Nielsen at our internal inspiration event. More info about Anders at thinque.com.au.

By now I talk to my clients about social media nearly every day as it’s become such an essential consideration of every marketing activity. Here’s Ogilvy’s PR division’s way of checking a company’s status.