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Re: Facebook News

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You sound pretty jaded. But your thoughts don't really match my experience with software agencies as you mentioned. I previously worked for a software consulting shop/agency. Our mindset wasn't just build some crap software and deliver as you might imagine, we actually put care and effort into our work despite half the team being freelancers who might never work on the product again.

I think it is important to differentiate software agencies and digital marketing agencies. Early in my career I worked at a few digital marketing agencies and this does feel very similar to what could be churned out. Everything was sold on the design. Sales teams would promise, mockups would be signed off on by clients without engineers looking at them, and there was usually a rush because of time and/or money once t…

This is what I mean, thanks for adding the clarity that I neglected to. I did make it sound too much like a personal attack against the implementers here, but you’re right in that the ones hiring the agencies are just looking for the fastest possible output, not quality, and applying that pressure.

Re: Facebook News

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Anyone else think that news isn't really all that exciting? Everyone gets news spammed by Google, Apple, Microsoft and every media related thing already... Will be interesting to see how the whole family/friends content works with this in the long run because it sure seems like FB was successful by presenting a stream of personal stuff that users cared much more deeply about (like my neices new kitten picutres).

Honestly, news is mostly terrible experience right now, and the prospects of facebook delivering news is about as exciting as Mafia Wars invites and Farmeville status posts from back in the day.

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