FB IPO ZOMG!!! In case you've been living under a rock, or holed up playing Diablo 3, Facebook is going public on Friday. For some people that means becoming instant millionaires, for the rest of us it means more ads (probably). What's everyone saying about how this IPO is going to affect the future of Facebook and the Internet at large? Here's a quick round up of the word on the Web:

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The book I read for my book report was The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation. It was very interesting. The character I liked best was… OK, just kidding. But this post is a book report of sorts. I just got done reading The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation and it’s awesome for a couple of reasons.

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Big Brother is watching you. And me. Collecting our information and researching our habits so he can build a profile of who we are and how we think. Then, when we least expect it, he’s going to take that information...and try to sell us things. We’re not exactly in tinfoil hat land here; we’re talking about the reality of living in a digital world where marketing has become more sophisticated than ever before.

Not surprisingly, there’s been a spate of articles recently about online privacy (or lack thereof) and just how much companies and marketers know about us.

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If there’s one thing the ad industry loves, it’s the ad industry. Every year, we like to get all gussied up and throw ourselves an awards celebration to recognize all the hard work we’ve done over the past year. This mainly consists of high-fiving and lots of talk about how awesome we all are. Speaking of how awesome we all are, Studiobanks won a bunch of ADDY Awards from AAF Charlotte this year! Here’s the rundown of what we took home:

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This just in: print is dead. Ok, well perhaps that’s an overstatement, but print advertising is not only declining it’s reached an important new milestone. For the first time ever, companies are spending more money on online advertising than they are on print.

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Part festive shindig, part Occupy North Pole rally, Studiobanks' annual holiday extravaganza was full on yuletide merriment! Armed with protest signs, adult beverages and an endless supply of cookies, we celebrated the season and helped spread the word about the Occupy-NorthPole.com movement. Really, though, we just acted like silly revelers who'd had a bit too much wassail. Fortunately, we had a photo booth set up so we could capture all of the holiday magic and use it for blackmail in the new year. Check out the slideshow below!

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Occupy-NorthPole.com is now live and fighting the good fight against cookie inequality! Learn more about the movement on their site and then check ‘em out on Facebook and stay up to date about all the news by following the movement on Twitter:

@ChandlerWobble: Head spokes-elf for the ONP movement.

@Occupy_NP: The official twitter account of the ONP movement.

@Red_NoseRudolph: Santa’s 9th reindeer and proud member of the Reindeer Union for over 72 years.

@Sam_theSnowman: Lead reporter covering the movement for the North Pole News Network.

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So all of sudden it’s November. Pumpkins are old and busted and the new hotness is Christmas (or the December holiday of your choice). Now that your Facebook feed is just about clear of your friends’ Halloween costumes, here comes Studiobanks with some Halloween nostalgia.

In case you missed it when it blew up on the Twitterverse last week, we made an epic pumpkin keg at the 2011 Guts pumpkin carving contest. How’d we do it?

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