Facebook & Display Advertising

Anybody who doubts the value of the Facebook franchise as an powerful advertising medium should pay attention to this: 25% of all display advertising now runs on Facebook.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/15/business/media/15drill.html

As an ex-Yahoo! employee, it pains me to see this news. But Facebook does represent the genius and the cockiness of the new internet.

Modern Art

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Originally uploaded by mukund76

Modern Art

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I wish I can reach this level of bullshit in my field - that I can practically do anything I want. And sell it to suckers.

This "art" is a bunch of torn pieces of paper.

False Teeth Repaired

False Teeth Repaired
Originally uploaded by mukund76

Oct 2008.
Saw this in Limerick, Ireland. I think this should be the only way to repair teeth - while you wait.

Obama poster in Ireland

Obama poster in Ireland
Originally uploaded by mukund76

The Europeans are convinced that Obama is a socialist - I saw posters like this, and this sentiment throughout Ireland last week. I also like the the heading: WallStreet, subprime, Iraq - assigning equal evil to all three. Oct 18, 2008.

Oct 14, 2008; Midtown East, NYC

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H&M advertising in NYC. Good copy, and a great use of key window space. Too often, I have seen this space been totally wasted by stores.

Oct 14, 2008; Church St. Bart's NYC

Church St. Bart's NYC
Originally uploaded by mukund76

I thought this was pretty timely advertising. With the markets crashing the way they have, hey, even I was tempted to check out what they were going to say in this church. And I am not even a Christian.

Lies

The trouble with living a life of lies is that most people aren't smart enough to ignore their own lies.

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Animal Farm

I am reading Animal Farm now - rather late, I admit (I am 32) but I guess better late than never.  There is an incredible paragraph which goes something like this (not exactly)

"The animals couldn't make up their mind who was right, and seemed to be in agreement with whichever pig was speaking at that moment".

Classic.

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