Archive for the ‘Facebook’ tag
Meet Fast Company’s New Blogger
Monster Mania
What’s the first thing you think when you think of Lady Gaga? If your name is Louis Marino, you think direct-to-consumer marketing.
In the inaugural post for his new column for Fast Company, MKTG’s own Creative Studio head explains what we as experiential marketers can learn from Mother Monster, leaving us with just one question — does this new column make Louis a member of the papa … paparazzi?
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Put on a hacky face
Hackers…or uh ‘enterprising designers’…are turning the re-designed profile pages on Facebook into works of art.
Many bloggers are crediting Alexandre Oudin as the art movement’s pioneer. His supplies? Photoshop and Facebook’s privacy settings. Yep, it’s that easy.
Need some inspiration? Check out 15 of the best “profile hacks” on refaceme.com. Then hack away, hackers.
Every Day I Write the Facebook
French animator Maxime Luere crafts the story of one fictional guy’s romantic ups and downs – from cute girls and bad breakups to true love and marriage – all told via his Facebook page. A sweet, moving tale of love that is oddly told to the backdrop of the Rolling Stones’ “Paint It Black,” a song about death, grief and suicidal thoughts. Anti-social network, anyone?
We can still be friends.
Did anyone really need another reason to hate Mondays? According to 10,000 breakup notifications on Facebook, most people cut the cord two weeks before Christmas, spring break, right after Valentine’s Day and…Mondays. British journalist and designer David McCandless analyzed Facebook status messages with the phrases ‘break up’ or ‘broken up’ and charted the results.
What more is there to say? It’s over. Done. Kaput. Finito, baby!
But we can still be friends. On Facebook.
Wow Steve, is it just me or does your profile picture look strikingly similar to Derek Jeter?
If you are anything like me and use Facebook for the sole purpose of stalking ex-boyfriends, posting ridiculously meaningless content on the same five profiles, and ignoring your grandmother’s friend request, yet again, for the seventh time, then chances are you also may have found it a bit out of the ordinary when seeing your newsfeed full of celebrity photos last week.
