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Well, for all my fellow Canadians I’d like to say Happy Victoria day. For those of you who are not Canadian, don’t worry about it you’re not missing much. The holiday is basically the start of the summer cottage season so it represents the first real weekend that we Canucks go up to the cottage and start airing it out. Luckily, since I don’t have a cottage I don’t have to worry about that.

Instead, I’m reading a little bit on the web this morning and processing videos for clients. Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt is featured in a video commencement address At Carnegie Mellon which, it’s always great to watch people from Google do things as it helps us know where they picture the internet going. Let’s face it, the only people foolish enough to not appreciate that Google *is* the Internet are the fine fellows over at Microsoft who are apparently more ADD than a monkey in a  banana factory as they’re trying to launch a website Analytics tool against Google Analytics. I’m all for competition but watching Microsoft try to compete against Google is like watching me play hockey, it’s just sad. While I’m on the subject of AdSense (Jason has a pretty good introduction article here), there’s a cool tutorial on Google Analytics, and AdSense Integration that I took a look at this morning.

20 cool Twitter applications caught my eye as I began programming my first web based Twitter app this morning. I decided to write a cool little toy that automatically followed everybody who followed me. I know there are already tools out there to do it but I love a good challenge, so I spent my weekend programming it.

On more of a marketing front, Joe has a nice piece about Wolfram over on Marketing Pilgrim but I think the highlight of my week was a piece about how lame Burger King’s advertising is. I know that they’re not trying to seduce me but I can’t help think that their marketing team is incompetent. On the subject of social media, there’s a great piece on cause marketing as well as how a pizza joint increased sales by 15% using Twitter. which seems to contradict this theory. If you’ve not already seen BMW’s new viral ads, they’re worth checking out.