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Curiosity killed the cat and not only

Posted by Anne on July 8, 2010

It can totally kill technology when your kids are too curious about the new gadget in town. If you haven’t been through this yet, here are some samples of what may come in case the little curious one is left unsupervised. You can save the situation by driving the focus somewhere else. Not cheap, but cheaper, however.

Some happier situations would look like this.

And bottom line, we think you should cherish these first moments, when curiosity is still asleep.

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If Facebook became flesh and bones

Posted by Anne on July 7, 2010

Your desk would have piles of invitations, people would come poke you unexpectedly and you would get banana trees and cows out of the blue.

Life itself would start losing fans. And get dislikes.

Would you like to:

a) confirm

b) deny

c) ignore

These statements.

Head up in the clouds = down to earth ideas

Posted by Anne on July 1, 2010

Daydreaming has been underestimated for so long, that it deserves a little article here today.

Mind wandering, more precisely, a subcategory of daydreaming according to J. Schooler and J. Smallwood, can become a fantastic opportunity for big ideas or important revelations if you seize the moment right.

You can find more about this here and enjoy some very productive mind wandering of Sandrine Estrade Boulet here:

Motivation drive

Posted by Anne on June 8, 2010

Dan Pink starts his 10 minute fabulous presentation with a short and precise statement: “The science is unbelievably surprising. The science is a little bit freaky”.

Determined to state this by some interesting studies he analysed, the guy explains us a little bit what the motivation drives are for specific categories of people.

We leave you with 10 minutes very worth watching, which will hopefully raise at the end one single important question to all of you, dear readers: what motivates you to wake up daily and go to work?

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Posted by Anne on May 7, 2010

The million dollar moral dilemma.

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Browsing through a copy brain in 140 characters

Posted by Anne on May 4, 2010

Trying to find just one good thing in life that is not 1. illegal 2. immoral or/and 3. fattening. Nothing, so far.

People are creatures of habit. If you have losing habits, you will lose you.

Today, I will encourage mistakes.

Creativity is by definition practical. If you don’t believe me, stop the engine of your car and push to work today :)

What we live is what we feel. What we feel is what we create. What we create is what we are. What we are is what other people live.

Ethics is not a new jacket, asshole. But the very skin you put under a shirt which you wear under a sweater worn under a new fucking jacket.

Let me love all of you out there that are not the center of the Universe today.

Taken from yesterday’s editorial on Iqads, which is written partly in Romanian. You can find more, however, if you have a look here from time to time.

The more, the merrier

Posted by Anne on May 3, 2010

Derek Sivers, musician, professional clown and entrepreneur, talks at TED about how to start a successful movement. Inspirational both for flash-mob initiators and less conventional business men.

3 minutes of practical advice:

FRIENDSbook 2010

Posted by Anne on April 26, 2010

We slept on the photos from the party for a while and let them bake with likes, tags and comments. Today we chose 7×7 of the most popular photos and prepared the long awaited FRIENDSbook. They were chosen both from the photos taken by us and the ones taken by our friends during the live-pic-event.

Enjoy and keep on liking, tagging and commenting on our Facebook group!

Steve Jobs about dots, love and death

Posted by Anne on April 20, 2010

A while ago Mr. Jobs held a speech at Stanford College. Some think of it as one of the best and most inspirational speeches ever given. What we know for certain is that he received standing applause at the end.

In simple words he offered great advice about making the dots connect: don’t settle, believe, stay hungry, stay foolish. And we wish this to all of you.

7 years of FRIENDS party

Posted by Anne on April 12, 2010

Friday night we had this big party with friends and friends of FRIENDS and we toasted for the 7th anniversary of our dear agency.

The event was broadcasted live through the photos uploaded in real time on our Facebook group – friends of FRIENDS.

You can still tag, comment and like or unlike them there and according to the feedback, some of them will be enclosed in the FRIENDSBOOK 2010.

For those of you who weren’t there or for those who wish to see it again, here’s the photo sum up of the agency’s past year, 2009.