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BigDamnDeal | 16 years ago | on: IKEA's brilliant Facebook campaign

Yeah, this seems especially excellent for getting initial awareness of a product – in this case, that specific IKEA location, as represented by its manager.

It also seems like a good way to build a mailing list, as the Obama campaign did when they got everyone's phone numbers so they could text them the name of the VP pick. That was some brilliant use of social media for old-fashioned mailing-list-building disguised as a gimmick.

BigDamnDeal | 16 years ago | on: Why Can't I Pick the Technology I Use in the Office?

Wow, I rarely take Farhad Manjoo's side, but this IT guy sounds like he simply wants to avoid doing his job.

He even ruins his excellent point – that sometimes the real enemy is the management who set ridiculous policies for IT to execute – by calling it insane for anyone to go over IT's head and complain to, say, the secretary of state in a meeting held precisely for such questions.

BigDamnDeal | 16 years ago | on: My Nightmare Interviews With Google

I bet the commenter above would prefer to be judged on his accomplishments as an interviewer, rather than some half-assed assessment of him as a person made in a comment.

BigDamnDeal | 16 years ago | on: Shit My Dad Says Gets a TV Deal after 72 tweets

And because Justin is already a successful writer who edits Maxim.com. He founded the comedy site Holy Taco (now owned by Break Media) and for the show he's getting the help of the co-creators of "Will and Grace."

"Shit My Dad Says" was just what turned him into a hot ticket and gave his creativity a specific character to explore.

BigDamnDeal | 16 years ago | on: How Bing could kill Google

This might work if Murdoch wasn't saying that he's not at all interested in being indexed, but in serving paying subscribers. Calacanis missed Murdoch's motive for opting out of Google: Not because Google's specifically a bad place to get traffic, but because Murdoch doesn't understand the benefits of search traffic enough to find a more appropriate solution.
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