Season 1 of Top Gear Australia just finished and I have to say that in summary the much criticized trio actually did quite a good job. I only missed one episode when traveling but thanks to the Tubes here’s the rather cool scene where Warren goes diving with great whites in a Mini Moke:
Shark cage diving in a car
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- 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
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- The One Velociraptor Per Child project wants to adequately educate every kid on this planet
- KickApps - social media apps on demand for your site
- Blogs influence purchases more than social networks
- US car sales are stuck in the toilet
- Download Greg Verdino’s free ebook 4 & 20 Blog Posts
- Aussies, have your say on the future of the ABC and make sure you check out the discussion paper Towards a Digital Future
- Dell case study by social media tracking tool Radian6: Free range marketing
- Now available: The data behind Razorfish’s digital consumer study
- Time’s 50 Best Inventions 2008
- Firefox surpasses 20% worldwide market share
- Fail: Microsoft’s Facebook millions paid back with Google election map
- Guy Kawasaki’s new book, Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition is now available
- Study: LinkedIn users rich (but still annoying)
- Watch CNN live and full-screen with VLC
- Top 15 trend questions (and answers)
- Young adults turn to MySpace for movie information
- Turn your favorite feeds into a personal magazine with Tabbloid
- This time Yahoo really wants Microsoft to buy them
- Photos of a python having a cockatoo for dinner
- Last but not least: support Francine and her 5 husbands, a viral campaign for coolcapitals.com
