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Do you really need--or want--"contextual information about people you're interacting with" via email? As part of Google 's new social spree that just gave field testers Google+ , Google's also added a new social feature to Gmail--the People Tab . It's a panel to the right of your Gmail inbox that displays "contextual information about people you're interacting with in Gmail" because "the people you communicate with" are as important as "what you're communicating about." To some, it will amount to another doodad on the already cluttered dashboard.

How Arianna Huffington, Larry Page, Richard Branson, and others, keep on top of it all.

A project of the Long Now Foundation, the aim is to make sure we preserve the knowledge contained in dying languages: "If languages are our how-to guides for living on planet Earth, we are handing our descendants an encyclopedia with almost all of the pages ripped out." The Long Now Foundation--currently breaking ground in Texas at the future site of its first monument-sized 10,000-year clock --is pursuing several programs in addition to the clock. One of these, the Rosetta Project, takes as its daunting mission the documentation of every human language currently in use; some 7,000 in total, the majority of which are in danger of disappearing without a trace. Directing this ambitious venture is Laura Welcher, a linguist who has specialized in building archival resources for indigenous North American languages.

A new app for Android phones blurs faces, strips metadata, integrates easily into Facebook, and is open source. It's great news for activists and protesters--and also for keg-standing partiers who want to make their photo albums safe for work.

For Hewlett-Packard's TouchPad tablet, which heads to market on Friday, the company avoided using Android at all costs . Well, actually, at a very specific cost: HP spent $1.2 billion last year to acquire Palm, which helped develop the TouchPad's slick software, WebOS.

Photograph by Patrick James Miller Creative marketers are launching new efforts to reach the Latin American community. Marc Speichert worked with Telemundo to launch a novela fan club. Marc Speichert Chief Marketing Officer, L'Or

Photograph by Patrick James Miller Creative marketers are launching new efforts to reach the Latin American community. Jackie Hern

Turn up the heat with these ultra-functional tools. #wrapper .p { float:left; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, serif; height:222px; margin-right:23px; margin-top:10px; width:180px; } #wrapper p { line-height:15px !important; font-size:14px !important; } #wrapper p strong { font-family:arial, helvitica; } #wrapper { } OUTFITTING a kitchen used to be a simple task--pots, pans, and a handful of standard implements were the norm (unless you responded to infomercials). Now, as design continues to infiltrate every corner of our lives, companies are rethinking the form and function of cooking tools, leaving consumers with an expanding range of products to tackle a kitchen's many obstacles

Tuesday, July 05 Long before Comic Sans mimicked comic-book writing, Gutenberg aped the lettering of handwritten manuscripts with his printing press.

Tuesday, July 05 Long before Comic Sans mimicked comic-book writing, Gutenberg aped the lettering of handwritten manuscripts with his printing press.

Sunday, August 07 Corporate partnerships come and go -- unless you go into business with your best friend. To celebrate Friendship Day, we've rounded up our favorite (and most lucrative) friendships. Whether entertainers or tech geeks, these buddies mean business

You may not use a health device connected to your doctor yet, but you probably will soon. What will these devices look like and how will you use them?

Yes, Hollywood Stars can live up (or down) to their stereotypes. But they can also be invaluable in promoting a good cause.

She is a Contributing Editor and will talk about this years 30 Under 30 honorees and answer your questions about millennial entrepreneurs and employees.

Whenever someone says "company growth", they usuallymean sales. Sell more widgets, add more salespeople, move into more markets, make more phone calls, buy more advertising. But what about other ways to grow