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Read More »YouTube’s Radical Redesign Positions Google To Be Your New TV
Goodbye cute cat videos, hello cash cow. If browsing YouTube for funny videos is part of your Friday (or Monday, or Tuesday, or ...
Read More »The New Rules of Gamification
Gamification isn't just about badges and trophies. Experts weigh in on what you need to make next-generation customer rewards really work for your business
Read More »Is Daily Deals Dashboard Frugalo The Cure For Groupon Fatigue?
There is a lot of money riding on the daily deals phenomenon.
Read More »Do u h8 h8? DoSomething.org Wants Teens To Text For Social Good :)
Through a new membership model, Do Something is counting on text messages to create a movement of 5 million teenage activists by 2015. Can they get Generation Text to care about poverty, hunger, homelessness, and disease
Read More »When You Try to Buy Status, It Can Backfire
The desire for social status is one of the most important factors driving human behavior. Our place on the social hierarchy can determine everything from who we marry to how long we live . However, recent research suggests that some of the things we do to boost our status can backfire: they may make us feel better temporarily but increase the chances we will be stuck with lower status.
Read More »What Is the Future of Knowledge in the Internet Age?
In the December issue of Scientific American, author David Weinberger reports from the frontiers of knowledge. His story " The Machine That Would Predict the Future " explores the promise of the FuturICT project , an attempt to build a computer model of all the social, economic, ecological and scientific factors at play in the world.
Read More »Flavors.me Wants To Curate Your Fragmented Social Media
Oversharing is an overwhelming problem online. Keeping up with all your news and interests and social channels can be exhausting--it's why innumerable aggregators exist (from Huffington Post to Reddit and Pinterest) to help us manage our consumption habits. Today, the startup Flavors.me takes another swipe at the problem, launching a new version of the service aimed at tackling our social media A.D.D
Read More »5 Keys to Getting Your Social Venture Funded
Venture capitalist Kesha Cash of Jalia Ventures is looking for a few good entrepreneurs of color.
Read More »Get Your Small Business Saturday On
It's not a question of which website or app to use to promote your business; it's about using as many methods as you can. Here are some ideas. Most people are in one of two camps when it comes to shopping the day after Thanksgiving.
Read More »Elena Silenok On Magic Mirrors, Virtual Closets, And The Future Of Fashion
In the latest installment of Fast Company’s future-gazing series, Crystal Ballin’, Elena Silenok of Clothia envisions an era of magic mirrors, virtual closets, and the fulfillment of an ancient prophecy by Alicia Silverstone. FAST COMPANY: What is your startup, Clothia
Read More »How Mobile Has Changed The Music Industry
Mobile devices have completely changed the way we consume music. It wasn't so long ago that I would physically go to a store to browse for an album. Today, I can stream pretty much any song ever recorded on my smartphone, for free, anywhere I have access to the Internet
Read More »Build a Killer Website: 19 Tips
If you do it right, your website can be the best marketing tool you have. Ilya Pozin, founder of the Web design firm Ciplex, on how not to screw it up. I’m continually surprised by how many people call my design company with very firm ideas about what they want on their business website and yet, they haven’t thought through some of the most basic questions first
Read More »In the Minds of Others (preview)
We recognize Robert Louis Stevenson’s Long John Silver by his commanding presence, his stoicism and the absence of his left leg, cut off below the hip. Although we think we know the roguish Silver, characters such as he are not of this world, as Stevenson himself admitted in Longman’s Magazine in 1884
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