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Pushing The Envelope, Not The Share Button

Step 1: Facebook does something.

Step 2: Everybody freaks the fuck out.

It’s been just over 5 years since Facebook first unveiled the News Feed. The song remains the same. 

This weekend’s Bitchmeme centered around Facebook’s new automatic or “frictionless” sharing. It already works with services like Spotify and Rdio and publications like The Washington Post and The Guardian. And it’s about to come to a lot more places. 

Depending which article you read, this is either: a) the end of sharing b) the end of Facebook c) the future. As always, most critics are leaning towards the former, more cynical options. 

Everyone should quit Facebook.

Again.

For real this time though. 

LOL.

The reality is what it has always been. Facebook is pushing the envelope. Companies that push the envelope take a lot of shit. That doesn’t mean they’re always right — often times, they’re not. But it does show that they’re unafraid, unlike most companies out there.

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Permalink Hope Has A Posse of the Day: Street artist Shepard Fairey remixes his iconic Obama “Hope” poster with the Anonymous-associated Guy Fawkes mask in support of the Occupy movement. He writes on his blog: Change is not about one election, one rally, one leader, it is about a constant dedication to progress and a constant push in the right direction. Let’s be the people doing the right thing as outsiders and simultaneously push the insiders to do the right thing for the people.
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Seeing opportunities

Client: “Can you draft me up a banner for our downtown location?”

Me: “Sure. What did you have in mind?”

Client: “It’s very simple. The Banner will read ‘#Occupy Pizza!’”

Me: “Uh, do you really want to use that as a marketing ploy? I think it has different connotations than you might think—”

Client: “And a picture of a pizza with a tiny slice shaded that says ‘We’re the 99%, so why not enjoy $1 off’, or something like that.”

Me: “Oh boy.”

source: clientsfromhell

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