Facebook stories - fascinating to see this launch after watching the 1st The Social Network trailer in theater

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"Facebook stories

Facebook is all about the individual and collective experiences of you and your friends. It's filled with hundreds of millions of stories. Which ones inspire you? What's your Facebook story?

All of us at Facebook thank you for being a part of our story: facebook.com/thanks"

will I share my stories on facebook???? may be not

The Future of Advertising = Crowd Sourcing - BusinessWeek

The Future of Advertising The traditional advertising model is broken, argues John Winsor of new-model agency Victors & Spoils. It's time for the old guard to wake up By John Winsor

I posed this teaser in a Businessweek.com article published just over a year ago. At the time, the question was purely rhetorical. But in the ensuing conversations it quickly became obvious that the answer was a resounding "NO."

Realizing this inspired me to quit my job as executive director of strategy and product innovation at the advertising agency Crispin, Porter + Bogusky to co-found Victors & Spoils, an advertising agency based on crowdsourcing principles. Now I find myself at the center of the debate about the future of advertising, design, and marketing—even the future of work itself.

Help Film a Time Capsule for Future Generations | Ridley Scott's Life if a Day is Today!

“It’ll be kind of like a time capsule, which people in the future, maybe in 20, 30, 40, 50, 100, 200 years could look at that and say ‘Oh my god, that’s what it’s like — a portrait of the world in a day.’”

Of course, this is what YouTube and the rest of the social web do already:

They document our lives. But by carefully curating these clips into a unified creative vision, MacDonald hopes to make something far more meaningful than a random sampling of YouTube videos dated the same day typically would.

To participate, simply film something happening Saturday (guidelines follow) and then look for the “submit” button that will appear on the “Life in a Day” YouTube channel, Saturday, July 24. MacDonald advises participants to shoot high-quality video of any length and save their uncompressed footage in case their videos are selected for inclusion.

The project will be more effective if MacDonald can weave together thematic threads that connect people’s videos, so in addition to the guidelines linked from this page, he mentions the a few examples of the sort of “little snapshots from your lives” that he’ll be looking for:

“something banal” like going to work or breakfast time

the sunrise
your baby doing something interesting
going to the hospital to visit a friend
your birthday
going for a walk in the countryside
or something “much more meaningful and emotional,” such as the demolition of your favorite building or the death of a friend
your wedding

Overall, MacDonald asks participants to answer the following four questions:

What do you fear the most (he mentions snakes, population explosion, climate change, the witch who lives next door)?
What do you love?
What makes you laugh?
What is in your pocket? (In MacDonald’s case, he had an iPhone in a case, keys, a “very cheap pen” given to him by Donald Sutherland and a tissue.)