How many search engines does Google feed? If you buy keywords on Overture, where else do your links appear?

This little chart by bruce clay will give you the answer and more.

http://bruceclay.com/searchenginechart.pdf

Don't let his MLM-esque design fool you. There's a bunch of great stuff here.

Today I am in need of a little diversion: the human clock.

Daniel Craig Giffen, creator and caretaker of the human clock project, has his hands full. Started in March 2001, the site consists of about 3500 pictures, each representing a single minute of the day in some shape or fashion.

Brandchannel.com - downloadable papers on branding.
http://www.interbrand.com/papers.asp

Another of my accidental finds, this site has some useful stuff.
E-Marketing A New Concept
Kmart's Big Branding Blunders
And some not so useful stuff
Online Brand Behavior

So proceed with caution and your thinking cap in place.

No just any "page not found" message

OK - so my geekdom is showing! It's funny.

Captology: Computers as Persuasive Technologies
http://captology.stanford.edu/

Do you believe you are smarter, cooler, more efficient because you own/use a cell phone? PDA? Laptop?

The folks here are trying to figure out just that. They're trying to create insight into how computing products -- from websites to mobile phone software -- can be designed to change what people believe and what they do. The goal is to create a body of expertise in the design, theory, and analysis of persuasive technologies, an area called "captology."

I stumbled across a bibliography entry for one of their articles and was curious. On the surface it may appear to be simple brand/marketing research but read on...