• 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.

• 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.

Meet Monifa, the three week old pygmy hippo baby at Taronga Zoo.

Meanwhile over in the US, everyone’s new favourite country, the pressure is on for Obama. Aside from being briefed on America’s best kept secrets (Area 51?), talking to the leaders of the world and the future first wife taking crap for her dress they are now being urged to adopt a dog. 50,000 votes are in and counting on obamafamilydog.com:

• 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