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Itching to spray a wall with graffiti but not down with the whole civil disobedience thing? All together now: There's an app for that

Itching to spray a wall with graffiti but not down with the whole civil disobedience thing? All together now: There's an app for that

Itching to spray a wall with graffiti but not down with the whole civil disobedience thing? All together now: There's an app for that. Wallit is a new location-aware app which advertises itself with the tagline "walls for places." Essentially it lets its users place a digital Post-it note, or an invisible piece of graffiti if you like, on a virtual "wall" connected to a real place on Earth

Why serial entrepreneur Seth Epstein says, among other things, that start-up founders should streak. Seth Epstein, the founder and CEO of SocialStay , which creates mobile apps for luxury resorts like the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Hotel Shangri-La in Santa Monica, and Hollywood Roosevelt in Los Angeles, spoke recently as part of the University of California at Santa Barbara Distinguished Lecture Series.

Pinterest co-founder Ben Silbermann explains why the social network updated its profile pages, and future plans for more extensive changes. Earlier this week, we heard a vague promise from Pinterest's founder Ben Silbermann : The fast-growing social bulletin-board website would be adding user profiles by week's end. Voila! On Friday morning Pinterest introduced profile pages that showcase a user's photo more prominently, as well as the other individuals that user most often re-pins

The best gauge of a company's longterm health? Mindshare

The president of the Zen Marketing Group explains how being an entrepreneur is similar to being a newlywed, and other great advice she's received. Being an entrepreneur is similar to being a newlywed: Everyone has a piece of advice to "gift" you with

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. TEDTalks Now On Netflix .

New data shows that there's a huge pool of talented workers out there just waiting to be hired. Check out what you're missing. The Disability Funders Network says that people with disabilities constitute the largest minority group in the U.S

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Last.fm To Track Music With Musicmetric . Music artists now have a new free tool to track how their audiences are responding to their content on the web

A new Gawker report shows Twitter lagging far behind Facebook in revenue. If the numbers are accurate, they show big trouble.

Peel, the app that learns your television tastes and turns your iPhone in a remote control , launched with the aim of creating a next-generation TV guide . "We started with discovery and control," says Scott Ellis, Peel's VP of marketing. "Now, we're focused on blowing out our social sharing." Today, the startup, which has raised more than $24 million in VC funding, finally unveiled its social experience at SXSW.

Location-based apps are this year's SXSW GroupMe and Twitter. Zaarly and LocalMind are two to put on your radar

Meet Elle Luna, a former IDEO designer who believes design plays a role at every stage of the process--even before teams start to think visually. Elle Luna calls herself a "designer, storyteller, and startup advisor." As a mentor at the Designer Fund , which believes designers should be startup founders rather than late-stage additions, Luna feels designers have a role to play at every stage of the process, including the gleam-in-eye phase. FAST COMPANY: You recently left your position at the major design firm IDEO

Here’s my beef with social platforms today: I don’t think they’re very social at all. As much as Google+, Facebook, and Pinterest promise a way to connect, they’ve also promoted a disconnect--sharing on different platforms, proving a fragmented sense of keeping tabs on any social network