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We're not saying Pinterest won't help your business--it very well might, especially if you're in retail, design or travel. But make sure you're being smart about it. Have you heard about Pinterest, the latest social media darling

Meet Marci Harris, who wants to fix your broken line of communication to Congress. Marci Harris is the CEO of PopVox , a website that lets organizations and individuals weigh in on legislation making its way through Congress. Fast Company caught up with Harris to discuss the novelty of laptops in caucus meetings, the uselessness of tweeting at your Congressperson, and the difficulty of parsing the phrase, “Save the whales.” FAST COMPANY: So you’ve created a new way for Congress to ignore us

The other day I really wasn’t paying much attention to the AM news station in my car until I heard a commercial for a web-based company imaginatively branded Reputation.com . I got to wondering about this kind of service, and when I typed “reputation management” into a search engine I was taken aback to see more than 10 million results

Confessions you wish you could make to your team but can't. There’s a lot you don’t know about your employees, especially the things your employees will never tell you .

I am sitting in a bakery minutes from my house, steps away from the train station, watching still-sleepy counter workers shuffling brioches and muffins to a rising flow of customers. I shouldn’t be here. I should be on that train now leaving the station, heading into New York City.

By Ivan Semeniuk, Meredith Wadman, Susan Young, Eric Hand, Eugenie Samuel Reich & Richard Monastersky of Nature magazine "It's not every day you have robots running through your house," Barack Obama quipped last week at the White House science fair, a showcase for student exhibitors that also gave the US president a chance to reiterate a favourite theme. [More]

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Showtime won big at the Golden Globes, taking home three awards, including best drama series for "Homeland." Nevins spoke with Fast Company about the rapidly changing world of cable TV and how he stays on top in a world where audience tastes evolve at an ever-accelerating pace. In the early '90s, most networks turned down the idea for the television show that would become ER.

Communication is the gateway to connect with your constituents. Here's how to be open, honest, and sincere. Mitt Romney may be in danger of throwing away his front-runner status in the Republican presidential primary

In this extended version of the conversation from our latest issue , we talk with Kimberly Dillon, the Founder and CEO of House of Mikko. What inspired Dillon to create the makeup recommendation site?

The Dog-Bark Snake Bot You've probably heard of robot snakes before, useful in search-and-rescue scenarios because they can worm their way into confined spaces--perhaps in collapsed buildings--that other machines can't match. You may also know SAR teams sometimes use sniffer dogs to help them locate victims trapped in rubble. But you've probably never conflated these two notions, and pictured a SAR dog that has a slave snake-bot that it can deploy and control with a bark.

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Web Protests Of Privacy Acts Begin . As planned, Wikipedia , Google , and scores of other websites have gone dark to protest the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) in the U.S.

How Martin Luther King, Jr. wrestled with anger and what you can learn from his example.

The makers of an Oscar-nominated short film app weigh in on managing uber-creative employees, running a studio like a start-up, and why CEOs should take more business trips. Moonbot Studios, a digital animation and development company based in Shreveport, Louisiana, describes itself as "an interplanetary creative expedition of story and art." If that sounds vague—even a bit nebulous—that's because its founders like to keep thing fluid