The Friday Five: 8th Edition

Here’s our pick of this week's top stories: 1. In local news, our Frank became a certified Magento developer.

Acing his exam in order to accompany our other certified developers- Tilley, James and Luke. Well done, Frank!

2. Facebook is preparing to go to war with Twitter.

Newspapers this week reported Facebook's plan to integrate video-sharing features into their photo app, Instagram, in order to fend off competition from Twitter's 6-second video app, Vine.

3. It's official; the UK is brilliantly creative.

A total of nine Cyber Lyons were won by UK creatives at Cannes this week. One gold was snapped up by Bodyform’s hugely popular video, “The Truth”, featuring a response to one disgruntled boyfriend’s reaction to Bodyform advertising.

4. It's nearly party time!

As if you didn’t know already, it’s now less than a week until we celebrate our 10th birthday in the smoke of London town! If you’re not on the guestlist and you’re interested in joining us for a glass of bubbly and conversation with like-minded people, just pop us an email: yes@wearefolk.com

Sources: 2) guardian.co.uk  3) brandrepublic.com