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How do you create technology to recommend new channels to users? And when does a person need to step in to curate these recommendations?

How do you create an app that helps users discover new foods? In this extended version of the conversation from our latest issue , we chat with Alexa Andrzejewski, the CEO of Foodspotting.

Giants parade down the Canyon of Heroes after their victory in 2008. They will retrace their steps today

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Bre Pettis's MakerBot has attracted millions in financing and is selling its 3-D printers as fast as it can. So how big can his business get?

When brands ask consumers to snap a product photo and text or email it in, Pongr recognizes the image and replies. Is that really better than QR codes? We asked its president

Your genetic tolerance for risk, coupled with new productivity gains through smart technology, can help your company revolutionize its industry. Mankind's most innovative , large-scale achievements: building the Pyramids of Egypt and the Panama Canal—even putting a man on the moon—were each accomplished with roughly the same number of people: 100,000. Luis von Ahn, the Carnegie Mellon professor who researched these epic projects, makes the observation that 100,000 may well be the practical limit on the number people it was possible to organize, using pre-Internet technology.

In this extended version of the conversation from our latest issue , we talk with Kimberly Dillon, the Founder and CEO of House of Mikko. What inspired Dillon to create the makeup recommendation site?

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?

In this extended version of the talk from our new issue , we speak with Tom Conrad, the CTO and Executive VP of Product at Pandora. Why does it take so much input from so many sources for the company to build perfect playlists

Lessons from the new world of quicksilver work, where "career planning" is an oxymoron.

"I went to La Tomatina alone from Valencia where I live. It seemed to me that about half of the guests had come from other countries.

"I went to La Tomatina alone from Valencia where I live. It seemed to me that about half of the guests had come from other countries. I heard Spanish, English, German, Italian, Russian, Chinese, and Japanese speech," said photographer FlyDime.

"Bastille Day/Liberty Festival at Brasserie Les Halles in Washington, D.C. It was, perhaps, the only place in Washington, D.C. that celebrated Bastille Day in a big way," said photographer Elvert Barnes.