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Justin Barber’s collection of postersTruth and Liesare of the ‘No tell me what you’re really thinking’ variety. The tongue-in-cheek minimalist posters illustrate every day (white) lies we tell, accompanied by what we really mean. In his own words, Justin says: This humorous poster series takes some of the most common, everyday lies we tell ourselves and hear from others, and bluntly translates them into the unequivocal truth. By visually representing the difference in what we often say but secretly mean, Truth and Lies uncovers the inane conversational nuances that reveal paradoxical dichotomies in our otherwise ordinary life....

Hearst, the media conglomerate behind Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, ELLE and O, The Oprah Magazine is launching its first iPad only magazine today calledCosmo For Guys(CFG). It is also the first time Hearst has turned to viral marketing to promote a new magazine. Hearst turned to the NYC based creative marketing agencyThinkmodoto create an original viral video campaign to generate buzz for CFG. And so, “iPad Head Girl” was born....

It has now been called “bizarrely short-sighted”, “very stupid” and it appears to be turning legions of Spotify’s most vocal fans into its most-vocal opponents. Haven’t heard the story? Spotify isnow requiringall new users to have a Facebook account in order to sign up. The move comesjust days after announcingdeep integration with Facebook at the social network’s f8 conference. While we perhaps (as TNW’sDrew Olanoffsuggests) shouldn’t be surprised by the move, it appears that many of us are, and surprised is just the beginning of what’s being expressedover on Get Satisfaction:...

We recently revamped our share button arrangement (you should see it to the right) and made a conscious decision to include the FB Share button instead of the FB Like button which can still be found at the bottom of our articles. Why? Well until today when a reader ‘liked’ (or ‘recommended’ in our case) a story, a single line of text would be posted into their Facebook profile for others to see....

There have been reports that “over a thousand” Nokia employees have walked out of the company’s Finnish offices in Oulu and Tampere this afternoon, many worried that they might be about to lose their jobs afterNokia announcedit would be partnering with Microsoft to make its Windows Phone platform its primary operating system. Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomatreportedthat over 1000 workers “marched out”, although this has not been confirmed. (Update: The publication has since removed the figure from its website)....