"It was devastating," says multi-hyphenate performer-musician-artist Aleksa Palladino about the too-short life of one of Boardwalk Empire's nuanced characters.
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"It was devastating," says multi-hyphenate performer-musician-artist Aleksa Palladino about the too-short life of one of Boardwalk Empire's nuanced characters. And she shares the alternate ending for Angela that never aired. To play Angela Darmody, the dreamer wife of conflicted gangster Jimmy Darmody [Michael Pitt] on Martin Scorsese project
Read More »Do You Stink at Public Speaking?
Stop with the excuses, and start off with these low-pressure steps to launching your speaking career, and increasing your brand-awareness. Public speaking is a great way to increase exposure to your brand and your message. Why do so many entrepreneurs resist stepping into the spotlight?
Read More »Do You Stink at Public Speaking?
Stop with the excuses, and start off with these low-pressure steps to launching your speaking career, and increasing your brand-awareness. Public speaking is a great way to increase exposure to your brand and your message. Why do so many entrepreneurs resist stepping into the spotlight
Read More »Microsoft Worker Builds iPhone App
Mike Swanson built a wildly popular iPhone app while working at his day job at Microsoft. After more than a decade working as an evangelist for Microsoft, Mike Swanson launched a start-up specializing in..
Read More »Microsoft Worker Builds iPhone App
Mike Swanson built a wildly popular iPhone app while working at his day job at Microsoft. After more than a decade working as an evangelist for Microsoft, Mike Swanson launched a start-up specializing in...
Read More »Work Smart: Disrupt Your Inbox
If you're looking for a quick way to improve productivity for yourself as well as those around you, look no further than your inbox. Most of us take email for granted now, which is why there is an opportunity there to improve and optimize how you communicate
Read More »The Birth Of An Idea: Ads To Rebrand Girls
Fast Company asked several of the most creative ad agencies in the world to rebrand baby girls. Their mock campaigns recast girls as the No. 1 choice for consumers from China to the U.S
Read More »Why Entrepreneurs Should Celebrate this Thanksgiving
We have plenty of reasons to complain. High unemployment, a frozen political system, an economy still struggling to get out of recession. Let's focus on the good stuff instead.
Read More »Warby Parker Disrupts the Eyewear Industry
Neil Blumenthal and David Gilboa, two founders of Warby Parker, explain how they dramatically undercut the dominant glasses makers. They position their $95 vintage-inspired frames like women's fashion accessories--not just to be sold when a prescription runs out.
Read More »The Elf That Stole Christmas
Christa Pitts left her job at QVC to help her mother and sister create a book and toy that have become a holiday tradition. In 2005, Christa Pitts left her job as a QVC host to help her mother, Carol Aebersold, and twin sister, Chanda Bell, launch Elf on the Shelf. The Marietta, Georgia-based company makes books and toys based on the family's Christmas tradition, which includes a toy elf who monitors naughty and nice behavior for Santa
Read More »This Week In Bots: The Thanksgiving Edition
[youtube 9psNh-dJTDU] Kinect House Maids Meet SmartPal VII , a kind of interim stage before truly automated robot and butler bots start cleaning up your household mess for you--SmartPal's brains are actually you. The robot from Yashkawa Electric is designed to be controlled via a gesture and motion-tracking interface powered through a Microsoft Kinect system
Read More »CSi: Crime Scene iPhones Yield Forensic Evidence, Confusion About Data Handling
During the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray concerning the death of pop icon Michael Jackson, prosecutors used Dr. Murray's iPhone to collect forensic evidenc.
Read More »For Video Game Makers, Playing The Competition Is A Heroic Task
For most executives, sizing up the competition means reading white papers or paying researchers to conduct market analyses.
Read More »How to Make a Trade Show Profitable
If youre going to spend thousands of dollars for a trade show booth, get your moneys worth.
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