• 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

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.

The killer follow-up ad for Sprint’s Nextel Direct Connect. Here’s the previous one: What if Firefighters Ran the World?

More info about the campaign on Mobile Marketing Magazine.

• 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