Twitter Before Birth, FlightLipDub, Best/Worst of ’08

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– Geek rigs maternity device to tweet when his unborn baby kicks. Probably the earliest instance of Twitter use EVAR. (Thanks, Atif!)

– Collateral Damage’s top 10 marketing blunders of ’08. There’s way more than 10 (“It was a very good year for very bad things”), and the top two are tied. Go figure.

– Deep Focus does FlightLipDub.com — the new online home for Flight of the Conchords.

– Free Will Power aims to safeguard “the future of pro-choice America.” There’s spoken word poetry! And a T-shirt contest!

– It’s a site on the hunt for beautiful ads.

– Another advertising socnet.

– Best and worst of AdFreak. If you consider what Collateral Damage’s worst marketing campaign was, you can probably guess AdFreak’s best ad of ’08. We’ll give you a hint: celebrity mashup.

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