A new school for 30 under-30 marketers opens at the Cannes Lions festival. But can creativity be taught in a week? The Cannes Lions was once an event solely for advertising creatives
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Use Google Goggles to scan bands and art (not clunky codes) to download free stuff in the new HTC Sensation 4G ads, a first-of-its-kind collaboration between Deutsch L.A. and Google
Read More »If Google Maps Explores China, Will It Mean More Freedom Or Less?
Launching a maps product in China requires jumping formidable bureaucratic hurdles and navigating thorny ethical issues. Google's still determined to make it work, but at what cost?
Read More »A Brief History of Productivity
What are the major milestones in productivity throughout history? Here's a timeline of key events that helped increase human efficiency, including the commercial diary, Henry Ford's Model T car, and the invention of the world wide web. 1791 Benjamin Franklin’s posthumous autobiography described the founding father’s system for the pursuit of “Order”.
Read More »How to Fast Forward Your Goals
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Read More »The Behavioral Immune System
We are prejudiced against all kinds of other people, based on superficial physical features: We react negatively to facial disfigurement; we avoid sitting next to people who are obese, or old, or in a wheelchair; we favor familiar folks over folks that are foreign. If I asked you why these prejudices exist and what one can do to eliminate them, your answer probably wouldn't involve the words "infectious disease." Perhaps it should.
Read More »Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week: Consultants 2 Go
September 11th caused two friends and co-workers to rethink their career and take the step to start a business. As we process applications for the 2011 Inc. 500 | 5000, we thought it would be worthwhile to shine a spotlight on some of the companies that are vying to appear on our ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in the United States .
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Read More »iFive: Nintendo Hacked, Next-Gen Wii Teased, China Threatens Google Weirdly, Kno Goes iPad, AT&T’s Tiny SIM Plans
Webcomic XKCD has timed today's piece nicely, given how much the (i)cloud will be in the news this week... 1. Sony, for once, isn't in the hacking news this morning: Instead game making rival Nintendo is now reporting a serious attack on its servers.
Read More »Get Socially Rewarded for Business Travel
New program lets users earn deals for tweeting and posting to Facebook. If you are a socially savvy business traveler like Shaun Koiner, the first thing you do when you land is scan the e-mails you received while in transit, check-in on Facebook and Foursquare as you deplane, and look for breaking news on Twitter as you ride to your destination.
Read More »Aaron Levie, CEO Of Box.net, On The Future Of The Cloud
For this installment of our forward-looking Crystal Ballin' series we speak with the man who founded his could-based file-sharing platform in college.
Read More »Tornadoes, Storms Hit Massachusetts, Killing Four
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Read More »YouTube Video Of A Tortured, Murdered 13-Year Old Is Syria’s Modern Emmett Till Moment
Emboldened by the Arab Spring and social media, Syrian protesters are taking to the streets over smuggled YouTube videos that appear to show a 13-year-old boy who was physically and sexually tortured while in government custody. A graphic video of the corpse of a 13-year-old boy who appears to have been sexually and physically tortured by Syrian security officials has sparked international condemnation and riots across the country. The video (see still pic above) shows Hamza Ali al-Khatib, a resident of the southern village of Jiza, and appears to have been filmed by his family after they retrieved his corpse.
Read More »Jason Pollock, Digital Producer, Filmmaker, and Writer
Jason Pollock was named one of the "100 People to Follow on Twitter" by PC Magazine.
Read More »The Cities Most Prepared For Climate Change
More than half the people on Earth now live in cities, so they'll be where we have to face our changing weather patterns. The most prepared cities are finding ways to keep citizens safe--and make them money. Even if you haven't been paying attention to the seemingly nonstop stream of wacky weather recently, chances are that your local government has.
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