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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No digital marketing campaign is complete without a remarketing component. It’s that simple. If you think you’re all set with your marketing campaign, take a second look, if you don’t see some language or line items for remarketing, you are nowhere near ready.

“Why do I need to worry about remarketing?” you may ask. I’ll answer you the only way I know how: through fear and intimidation.

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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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To be honest, I originally wanted to title this post “Top 5 Coding Annoyances.” But that's pretty negative, huh? So I decided that it would be perfectly reasonable to turn things around and focus on the positive. The inside joke is that the items on the list haven’t changed at all. In the end, they’re all about consistency, organization, and taking pride in what you produce. As WordPress likes to remind us, “Code is Poetry.”

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A few months back, I read Steve Jobs' Biography by Walter Isaacson. Early in the book Steve talks about a time when his father was building a cabinet and told Steve that the back of the cabinet should look as good and be built as well as the rest. It’s a story that informed Steve’s design philosophy from that day forward:

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Attention iOS owners: Friend of Studiobanks and all around awesome developer Will Jardine has just released his first iOS game, A Little Turbulence, to the Apple App store! This is Will's first endeavor into the indie gaming market and it's super fun.

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Last week I had the opportunity to speak with local design students about life after graduation. AIGA Charlotte asked that I join other local design leaders including John Phietrafesa of MODE, Brady Bone of LKM, and Emily Walker of the Mint Museum in their popular panel event series called Design Unplugged. AIGA Charlotte student group coordinator Giulio Turturro moderated the discussion at The Art Institute in south Charlotte.

We discussed what Charlotte’s advertising and design businesses are really expecting from recent design graduates. While we did cover aspects of what it’s like to join an agency or design firm straight out of school, the conversations naturally focused on the best way to present and market yourself to get your first job.

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Hot damn! A new Facebook change that was met with equal parts resistance and praise! It’s not like that’s ever happened before...

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that Facebook rolled out Timeline for Pages a few weeks ago (it will become mandatory for all brands at the end of March). Like most changes on Facebook, it was met with immediate disdain and calls for heads to roll. I too found myself caught up in the angry mob mentality of, “It wasn’t broke, why’d you fix it!”

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