CEO Doug Ulman explains how the new social tool puts the emphasis on overcoming challenges over time, something Lance Armstrong knows about. In 2010, when Fast Company profiled Doug Ulman , the President and CEO of the
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Feed Subscription5 Ways To Put The "Pro" In Profile Pics
Your profile photo is an important part of your online image, so if you still have an egg as your Twitter avatar or a blue-and-white silhouette for your Facebook page, it's time to step things up. (Hint: This photo is a "don't.") If you still have an egg as your Twitter avatar, it's time to step things up.
Read More »Why Facebook’s Daily Active Users Is Not The Number That Matters
A fracas emerges over the fact that not all daily Facebook users visit the company's website.
Read More »Hack Days: Not Just for Facebookers
As part of Facebook's IPO filing, founder Mark Zuckerberg praised the concept of the "hackathon." Could something similar benefit your company, even if you're not in tech?
Read More »Facebook’s Timeline Movie Maker, Starring Your Jacked Ego
The visualization tool brings home the point that your Timeline is supposed to be a survey of your young life so far. And it makes you want to upload more and better pictures.
Read More »Inside Facebook’s S-1 Filing: 845 Million Users, $3.7 Billion In Revenues In 2011
The day has finally come as many has long predicted and hoped: Facebook today filed its S1 registration . We're combing through the numbers at present--we'll update as we get a better grasp on the figures--but here are the initial highlights. Net income for 2011 reached $1 billion in 2011, on revenue of $3.7 billion, up from $606 million on revenues of $1.97 billion in 2010
Read More »Photo Archive App Shoebox Fills In Your Facebook Timeline, Starting At Birth
Starting today, the app from 1000memories lets users conveniently start digitizing the world's 4 trillion paper snapshots and slapping them on Facebook.
Read More »Facebook’s New… Newsrooms?
Over the weekend, Facebook quietly registered a series of "newsroom" domains. Could a new journalism project be next for the social media giant?
Read More »5 Biggest Event Planning Fears (& Fixes)
Will anyone show up? What if people get bored?
Read More »5 Biggest Event Planning Fears (& Fixes)
Will anyone show up? What if people get bored? Check out these five ideas to set your next company event up for success.
Read More »5 Biggest Event Planning Fears (& Fixes)
Will anyone show up? What if people get bored?
Read More »Faster-than-light neutrinos: a timeline
2011 has been a busy year for particle physicists. They’ve found a new particle , closed in on the elusive Higgs boson , and witnessed some neutrinos acting pretty strangely, amongst other things.
Read More »Facebook Testing "Listen" Buttons?, LinkedIn’s India Membership Rises To 13 Million, Yahoo May Cut Its Alibaba Stock
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Facebook Testing "Listen" Button
Read More »Should Entrepreneurs Buy Into The "Changing Pace" Of Innovation?
Much is made these days about the "pace of innovation." Everything is moving faster. Supposedly.
Read More »Steve Jobs, 1955-2011
Apple co-founder Jobs was one of those people who kept topping himself, writes veteran technology journalist Lee Gomes. Here's a look back through Jobs's life as entrepreneur, designer, and ultimately, icon. Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple who pioneered the personal-computer industry and became an emblem of Internet-era culture, died Wednesday at the age of 56.
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