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Cofounder and CEO Ben Silbermann also talks APIs and affiliate links at SXSW. Pinterest, the addictive image collection and sharing site, will soon release a new profile page, possibly as soon as this week, and expand the types of items people can collect to include video.
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Read More »Uh-Oh: Are You Hiring a Bully?
We all know senior-level employees who talk up to the boss, but down to staffers. Don't hire them. Sometimes you know in an instant that you are definitely not welcome.
Read More »Networking Tricks for Women Owners
Want to grow your business? Do what men do.
Read More »You’re Wired to Be a Leader
You were born with seven brain attributes for effective management. How much you turn the volume up or down depends on you--and what you want to accomplish. Jeff K
Read More »Getting Voice: New Speech Synthesis Could Make Roger Ebert Sound More Like Himself
After Roger Ebert lost the ability to speak in 2006 due to a post-cancer surgery tracheostomy, the film critic has communicated via Post-It notes, an eloquent and hilarious array of hand gestures, and his Mac laptop synthesizer.
Read More »Learning from Insect Swarms: Smart Cancer Targeting
Research published in Nature Materials this month takes lessons from cooperation in nature, including that observed in insect swarms, to create better targeting methods for cancer therapeutics [1]. "Smart" anti-cancer drug systems can use mechanisms similar to swarm intelligence to locate sites of disease in the human body.
Read More »Early 20th Century Botanist Gave Us Domesticated Blueberries
Mmmm, blueberries. It’s the height of the season, and I’ve been tossing a handful onto cereal, into pancakes or just straight into my mouth.
Read More »Anorectic Brain Responds To Food Anxiously
Meatloaf, mac-and-cheese or a big bowl of mashed potatoes. We all have our comfort foods.
Read More »AOL Revenue Tanks, Gigwalk Is A Foursquare For Temp Jobs, IP Addresses Don’t Prove Guilt, And More…
The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. Bad News For AOL And Microsoft Beleaguered former dial-up king AOL continues to suffer, posting a $551 million revenue drop from a year ago--a whopping 17% decrease.
Read More »How to excavate a human burial: Lessons from a dinosaur expert
SACRAMENTO--It is one of the most poignant scenes ever captured in the human fossil record--a woman and two children buried together some 5,300 years ago on a bed of flowers, holding hands. They lived by the shores of a shallow freshwater lake in what is now Niger, at a time when the Sahara was green
Read More »Bones Can Reveal Deceased’s Weight
We see it all the time on shows like Bones and CSI. Skeletal remains can yield all sorts of clues--gender, age, past physical traumas
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