The fan-made and now official video clip by French director Clement Picon won the competition put out by animation website Aniboom. And the guy got £5000 in return which seems a little weak. Ah yeah, there was 3 other winners for other songs. See them all here.

• 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’

It’s hard for big corporations to twist the green angle into a campaignable value prop and not many did it too well. Here’s IBM’s go: ibm.com/fightcarbon / ibm.com/green

Hmm… I’m gonna pass on this one.
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realwire/webitpr.com view of the world. I think it’s important to call it a news instead of press release. [via]

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.