• 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

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.

More about the Upscaling product line on toshiba.co.uk/upscaling, the making of the ad, which used 200 Toshiba Gigashot cameras and generated 20TB of data, below:

• 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
  

• 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

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 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