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  • Facebook Tells Employees to Keep Working

    Facebook Tells Employees to Keep Working

    Facebook’s IPO is just around the corner. Imagine working for them right now. You are a young hacker who got in with a tech giant before its IPO. You probably have all kinds of stock options for the work you’ve done with them, and you are about to see your shares go public and make you filthy rich. Or at least moderately rich, depending on how long you’ve been there, and how you define “filthy” rich. The Facebook IPO is reported to create over 1,000 new millionaires.

    Odds are the gravity of what is happening is weighing heavily on your mind. What are you going to buy? Should you just take what you’ve got and start your own company? How is your life and the culture of your company going to change? Will it even do as well as expected?

    Part of Facebook’s solution is to remind everyone working for them that they still have a job to do. These posters are being posted around the Facebook campus, according to Bloomberg reporter Jon Erlichman.

    Ultimately this will help morale and keep hackers hacking. If employees are constantly worried about their personal wealth, odds are it will negatively effect productivity and performance. That is the last thing Facebook needs right now. Proving to investors that they are a solid company grounded with dedicated individuals is priority one.

    [h/t: Business Insider]

  • Social Media Propaganda Posters Will Hopefully Become a Coffee Table Book Thanks to Kickstarter

    Social Media Propaganda Posters Will Hopefully Become a Coffee Table Book Thanks to Kickstarter

    Aaron Wood is known in almost 20,000 Google+ circles for his social media propaganda posters and now he is putting together a coffee table book.

    He is trying to get funding for his Kickstarter project by networking on Google+. The book will be 9″x12″ and contain 25 full color reproductions of his posters. It will be a soft cover and have 60 pages. Opposite each poster will be a small description of the poster and some behind the scenes into what he was thinking when he made it.

    Wood has raised $2,050 for his project from 40 supporters and he only needs to raise another $650 in the next 5 days.

    Maybe more artists should reach out like Wood has so that they can fund projects they are passionate about.

    Check out his rendition of the fail whale, the picture that Twitter shows when the site goes down.


    But some people think Wood’s art is too “commie” and lacks originality.

    This is how he responded to the critique:

    Do you think it is too “commie?”

    What is your reaction to his artwork?


    You can also view some of his other designs on his Etsy page where you can purchase the posters.

    The following is his profile on Etsy:

    This one is my favorite.