I’m a fan of this initiative but have to link back to this here.

• 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

I’m a big fan of entertaining and engaging online campaigns using video in an interactive way and here’s a little beauty from Greece for the Lacta chocolate bar, produced by Ogilvy One Worldwide. You decide whether the love story is successful by making choices. In my case there wasn’t much love going as I took a wrong turn and lost Joanna. Might need to try again.
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What also caught my eye is that when you right click the agency inserted a little Flash link sending people over to their site which is rather uncommon:

The founder of Current TV presenting at the recent Web 2.0 Summit and asking for Web 2.0 to have a more specific purpose.

• 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
  

Yesterday liberal pranksters known as the Yes Men handed out 1.2m fake NYTs with positive news throughout, such as the end of the Iraq war, free universities and health care system. There’s also a spoof website and of course the article on the real NYT. I like it. No pressure, Obama.

• Scenes from Antarctica will blow you away
  
• IBM reshapes its sales meetings
• A developer explains how the code works behind applications that run on Microsoft Surface
• The Open Web Awards are ready for your nominations till the 16th
• The real Al Gore’s Twitter account
• Some really interesting videos from the recent Web 2.0 Summit plus a good dozen of presentation files on SlideShare
  
• MGM to post full films on YouTube
• Chuckles 2009 calendar
• Gallery of images taken at the perfect time
• Maldives seek to buy a new homeland
• Scientists turn tequila into diamonds
• Resampled space
• The Art of Manliness Man of the Year 2008 sponsored by Old Spice