Awesome way to present Hartman Group’s report on consumer insights.
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• Telstra’s Bigpond crew has a Twitter account but now they’re not so sure what that means with the spam act (this is actually quite an interesting discussion to follow as the spam act not really works with social media)
• RRW write-ups (part 1 and 2) on mobile phones as barcode scanners
• FutureBrand’s country brand index
• US women would rather play video games than sleep
• Who should you target as for PR efforts? (if you’re a tech company)
• Trendwatching’s October briefing on perkonomics
• CopyPasteCharacter.com helps with all those symbols you keep looking for
• Get into space for $2 (albeit your seat is only 1×1cm)
• Charlene Li’s (co-author of ‘Groundswell’) slides from some keynote about SM
• Get IE7 Pro
  
• Laurel Papworth is running with her Twitter Agency idea for chasing the Vodafone account
• Microsoft announced the release of a cloud OS
• Dan Aykroyd wants you to drink his Crystal Head vodka
• Google upgraded their Blog Search this week
• The Death of Small Talk, B&T’s relaunch campaign
• Google just updated the satellite images of the Great Barrier Reef so it’s preserved for the day after and you get to spot some sharks
• BusinessWeek’s tech special report on the best of the web 2008
• Finally: squirrel underpants protect the world from squirrel nudity
• Word Magazine’s album cover mapping mash-up
• Unnecessary knowledge generator
• ReadWriteWeb post about the approach to the semantic web
• And they also link to Nodalities Mag which you can subscribe to for free if you’re getting really excited about Web 3.0
• Audi R8-inspired boat
• Write-up about the campaign to launch some new teenie movie on Movie Marketing Madness
• Last but not least: Aussie politicans admit to smoking pot but ‘didn’t like it’

Very interesting presentation. Especially the last slide:

There is only One machine.
The web is its OS.
All screens look into the One.
No bits will live outside the web.
To share is to gain.
Let the One read it.
The One is us.

Quite scary actually when you think about it. Reminds me of some futurist movie from the 60s.

Kevin Kelly has been publisher of the Whole Earth Review, exec editor at WIRED, founder of visionary nonprofits, and writer on biology and business and cool tools. He’s admired for his new perspectives on technology and its relevance to history, biology and religion.

More about him and another talk here.

• The future of advertising is… publishing
• Heaps of very interesting presentations from the recent Web 2.0 Expo
• Microsoft research on online banners vs. search
• 7 things pick-up artists and savvy marketers have in common (if you clicked that then you might as well enjoy this post: 10 Sales and Marketing Tips I learned from Strippers)
• 2008 entries for Forrester’s Groundswell Award
• A post on The Future Buzz about the digital divide
• Sam Kekovich does Photon Group’s annual report (courtesy of Michael)
• Adweek: Anomaly’s Johnson on the Joys of Being a ‘Suit’
• Education 2.0
• Anti-social networking application launched on Facebook
• Viral marketing checklist
• Fake popup study sadly confirms most users are idiots
• Miss Fifi from Sweden educates women about personal grooming
• Overview of visualisation tools
• Chrome fades as users return to IE, Firefox
• Google Moderator launched and allows you to crowdsource (TC post here)

• 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

Just watched a news report about the scientists in Geneva at CERN getting closer with recreating the big bang with their Large Hadron Collider. Some peoples are worried it’s gonna create a black hole and suck us all in. Anyway, let’s look at some very cool images of the impressive machine (whole gallery here):

Update: We made it! Nothing happened.