PhotoOfTheDay
The first one is about Jamie Livingston. He was a New York-based photographer, film-maker and circus performer who from March 31, 1979 through to the day of his death on October 25, 1997 took a Polaroid photograph every day. Livingston’s Polaroid a Day charted his experiences with cancer, and his subsequent engagement and marriage. His photographs in and out of hospital continued up until the day of his death.

Days with my father
An always beautiful, sometimes sad, sometimes uplifting site documenting the daily life of Philip’s 98 year-old father who copes with his lack of short-memory. 20 minutes after Philip’s mother funeral, his dad started to ask him where his mother was. After some time Philip figured out that he couldn’t keep telling him that she was gone. “It was killing both of us to re-live her death constantly”.

Love Diary
This is touching in so many ways. Just like the other links here. To tell it with the words of Madi Ju “I met Patrick online in July 2006, then we met in Macau for the first time. he moved from Taipei to Guangzhou, we travelled to Tibet and Nepal, then we moved to Xiamen, a small city by the sea. Our relationship ended after 2 years in Beijing. This is our photo story about our love and passion. Now it’s all the memories.”

Along with Radiohead, they released their recent albums over the internet and they are using a massive amount of web2.0 tools to promote themselves and reach the audience. Some of the tools they use are Flickr, Facebook, Last.fm, MySpace, YouTube, iCal, iLike, and more recently, Google Earth and Google Calendar.

This web 2.0 tools usage, along with their creative music and viral marketing / alternate reality games (the Year Zero game) techniques, is making them one of the most “3.0″ band ever.

I guess every band (and business) out there should hire this new, emerging figure: the 2.0 marketing expert. Someone with deep knowledge of the available tools and their capabilities. Someone who is able to create mashups and keep contact with fans (customers).

The band (corporate) blog is not enough nowadays. We need to create real connections and involvement.

Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang wisely emerged from his bunker today, updating Yahoo’s worldwide workforce about the Microsoft offer via an email message and patting them all on the head.

…as we’ve said, no decisions have been made about microsoft’s proposal. our board is thoughtfully evaluating a wide range of potential strategic alternatives in what is a complex and evolving landscape. and we’ve hired top advisors to assist through the process.

Meanwhile, the value of Microsoft’s buyout offer is dropping, which will actually make it more easy to rebuff.

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