HP, Best Buy, and JetBlue reveal how they use Twitter's enhanced profile pages to make every tweet sing. It’s still officially in velvet-rope mode, but Twitter’s enhanced profile pages are heavily in play for those brands among the first to sign up. So how are the early reviews?
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Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Google Q4 Earnings Not Google-y Enough . There were several handsome numbers in
Read More »Airbnb Clones Making 2012 The Year Of Peer-To-Peer Accommodations
Last year saw the explosion of deals companies trying to duplicate the success of first-mover Groupon.
Read More »The Return Of LiveJournal
LiveJournal, one of the web's most popular early blogging sites, is launching a comeback in the United States. Their plans for 2012 include massive changes for users
Read More »3 Timeless Parables For Regaining Perspective
If you are like me, sometimes I am so busy trying to catch up, stay even, or take the lead that I lose perspective. When things are going well, I am on top of the world.
Read More »Anonymous #OpMegaUpload Attacks Justice Department, MPAA, RIAA
This evening, hours after Megaupload was busted by federal authorities, Anonymous began a massive retaliatory attack that forced the websites of the Justice Department, the U.S.
Read More »Educational Technology Experts Skeptical About Apple’s iBooks
Apple has demonstrated again and again its ability to create and reinvent content marketplaces by designing irresistible devices and platforms--will educational content be its next conquest? When I was in college 10 years ago, my biology textbook was a $300, four-pound monstrosity with a shiny CD-ROM shrink-wrapped to the front.
Read More »In Bowerbird Romance, Master Illusionists Get the Girls [VIDEO]
Male great bowerbird. Image by algaedoc via Flickr Male bowerbirds are virtuoso architects
Read More »A Lost And Found For The Internet
Some startup ideas are long overdue. Found in Town is one of them
Read More »Zappos Accounts Hacked, Netflix Investors File Class Action Suit, Facebook Planning May IPO?
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Facebook Planning May IPO?
Read More »"Angry Brides" Game Tackles Dowry In India, iPhone 5 To Run On T-Mobile?, Facebook Launches "Listen"
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Shaadi.com Launches "Angry Brides" Facebook Game
Read More »Generation Flux: Raina Kumra
Raina Kumra is a former documentary filmmaker, digital strategy guru at Wieden+Kennedy, and founder of Light Up Malawi, but is now a federal contractor--the Codirector of Innovation at the federal agency, the Broadcasting Board of Governors. @font-face { font-family: 'FCKaiserCondWebRegular'; src: url('/sites/all/themes/fc_v1/scripts/mod2011/fckaiser-cond-web-regular-webfont.eot'); src: url('/sites/all/themes/fc_v1/scripts/mod2011/fckaiser-cond-web-regular-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'), url('/sites/all/themes/fc_v1/scripts/mod2011/fckaiser-cond-web-regular-webfont.woff') format('woff'), url('/sites/all/themes/fc_v1/scripts/mod2011/fckaiser-cond-web-regular-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'), url('/sites/all/themes/fc_v1/scripts/mod2011/fckaiser-cond-web-regular-webfont.svg# FCKaiserCondWebRegular') format('svg'); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; } .kaiser, .kaiser a {font-family: 'FCKaiserCondWebRegular', Helvetica, sans-serif !important; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height:1; font-size:40px!important;color:#333; text-decoration:underline;} .kaiser a:hover {color:#666;} .kaiser {text-decoration:none;font-size:30px!important;} .sidebox {float:right;border:1px solid #e6e6e6;background-color:#fafafa!important;width:200px;padding:5px;margin:0px 0px 10px 10px;} .sidebox a {color:#e80681;font-weight:bold;} .sidebox p {font-size:13px;} .bottombox {background:#f2f2f2;border:1px solid #d8d8d8;padding:15px;} .bottombox img {display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle;width:50px;height:50px;padding:6px;} .bottombox a {display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle;width:70px;font-size:12px;line-height:1.2em; color:#e8007e;font-weight:bold;} Photo by Brooke Nipar "Fear holds a lot of people back," says Raina Kumra, 34. "I'm skill hoarding
Read More »Mais Non! France’s "Free" Cell Phone Service Will (Likely) Never Work In The U.S.
This week saw the launch of what could be seen as a revolutionary cell phone service in France. Contingent on a couple of rules, Free.fr is offering an all-but-free cell phone service that promises truly unlimited data, voice, and SMS monthly tariffs.
Read More »Foursquare, Google, And The Search Schism Of 2012
Earlier this week, Google launched Search+, and immediately the tech world cried foul .
Read More »Facebook Puts Friends In A Benz
Soon, you'll be able to use Facebook in your Mercedes-Benz. (You roll in a Benzo, right?) Is Facebook suffering from "mission creep"?
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