• 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

More (in Italian) on the DAConnect website.

Gold although I wonder whether Nintendo really is behind this.

Update: It’s from some BBC comedy show but with the Wii the viral possibilities ranging from girls on the Wii Fit to dogs playing Wii Tennis are endless. You’d hope Nintendo uses these memes to their advantage and produces some every now then themselves.

Disclaimer: Only works with Italian leather wear. Bad luck if you wear Chucks.

I don’t mind bouncing boobs but this has to be one of the worst concepts I’ve ever seen. Seems like the creative team was a bunch of teenagers.

My colleagues at McCann Sydney just launched Pfizer’s new Viagra campaign here in Australia. Make sure you also check out the campaign site thingswedoforlove.com.au.