A Link to the Past

What you are about to read is an assortment of links that the VaynerMedia team found this week – some are tech, some are sports, some are funny, some are random, but all of the links are interesting… or so we think!

Gary Vaynerchuk: Facebook Gets its own Vitamin Water. Consumer brands will be doing much more of these kind of things in 2010-11 and beyond.

AJ Vaynerchuk: Review: Blippy (What are your friends buying?). I’m personally fascinated by sleep and this article shows you an interesting aspect of the world when our eyes are closed.

David Zhang: What’s Changed This Decade (1999-2009)? I love charts like this – my favorite is the Pirate Bay statistic.

Marcus Krzastek: Most Winning Creative Work Involves Consumer Participation. Some more proof that advertising communication has changed an
incredible amount in a short period of time.

Matt Sitomer: Amazing to see these beautiful, colorful subways compared to the one we ride every day.

Neil Sarkar: From Here to There: Chimp Grooming and Dunbar’s Number. Short article. Premise: Chimps cannot successfully co-exist in groups of more than 40 or 50 without splintering, and the number for humans is 150.

Sam Taggart: NBA Jam to Make a Comeback on Nintendo Wii. NBA Jam was one of my favorite games as a kid, and I can’t wait to see how Wii modernizes it.

John Oates: Top New Years Resolutions 2010. Interesting to see what people are planning to change in 2010.

Leora Israel: Vanity Fair on Twitter fame: Twembarrassing. I think it’s awesome that some of my friends are in Vanity Fair. Very proud of them. But not so happy with the way women on Twitter are portrayed in the article.

Stephanie Bagley: The 100 Most Social Brands of 2009. Interesting to see which brands made the list in 2009 when you compare them to the link included for the 2008 list. There are a lot of major shifts, especially with the “Big 4″ sports leagues all earning prominent placement on the 2009 list.

Keith Holjencin: Design Walkthrough with Khoi Vinh. Khoi Vinh explains the pros and cons of several design approaches during his creation of his new wordpress theme Basic Maths.

Sameer Tanakia: Facebook’s Top Status Updates of 2009 Very interesting to see what was on the 2009 list of commonly used terms in facebook status updates. Really guys… Lady Gaga?

Zak Jacoby: 3 Airplane Emergencies. Three different ways to portray an airplane emergency from College Humor.

Caleb Brown: Adagio Tea Roots Campaign. Adagio Tea has started to feature a different tea farmer each month. Rarely do tea drinkers have any knowledge of their farmer(s), this is a great move on Adagio’s part.

Joe Whitmarsh: For Music Lovers: Curated Set Lists for Free. Love Songza, and while I like sites like Last.fm and Pandora there is nothing like someone taking the time to put together the perfect mix.

Mike Boyd: Electronic Bike. The electronic bike is quite impressive. I hope this invention helps save the Earth!

Saeed Jabbar: I Tried Emacs (Pit Party ’08). Old but golden parody that would give any geek a good laugh.

Tim Werly: ESPN to Launch 3D Network in 2010. Get ready for Ray Lewis in your living room.

Jon Troutman: Popular Baby Names in 2009. Because Jonathan was the 69th most popular name this past year.