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The British animator Cyriak Harris has translated his surreal creature creations into YouTube stardom. Cyriak Harris learned hand-drawn animation at school, but it's his bag of self-taught digital tricks that power the insane cavalcade of worm-shaped cats and madly multiplying lambs that make this 37-year-old Brit one of YouTube’s most popular filmmakers. His last eight clips have racked up roughly 28 million page views by putting cattle , sheep, teddy bears , and cats through preposterous paces

Neil Blumenthal and David Gilboa, two founders of Warby Parker, explain how they dramatically undercut the dominant glasses makers. They position their $95 vintage-inspired frames like women's fashion accessories--not just to be sold when a prescription runs out.

[youtube 9psNh-dJTDU] Kinect House Maids Meet SmartPal VII , a kind of interim stage before truly automated robot and butler bots start cleaning up your household mess for you--SmartPal's brains are actually you. The robot from Yashkawa Electric is designed to be controlled via a gesture and motion-tracking interface powered through a Microsoft Kinect system

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Nokia Siemens Networks To Cut 17,000 Jobs

Turnaround specialist Howard Tullman talks about how to bring about change--and avoid needing it in the first place. Plus, why you need employees who don't bathe. View the video on Inc.com at: http://www.inc.com/video/201111/how-i-did-it-howard-tullman-tribeca-flashpoint-academy.html

Martin Lindstrom, author of Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy, speaks about marketing and branding and how to successfully navigate them. View the video on Inc.com at: http://www.inc.com/video/201111/live-chat-martin-lindstrom.html

The video search technology, which cost Microsoft a reported $70 million, will be integrated into XBox.

How do you know when it's time to pack up your venture and start over? Plus, signs it's time to quit from small-business consultant Barry Moltz, author of Bounce!: Failure, Resiliency, and Confidence to Achieve Your Next Great Success. View the video on Inc.com at: http://www.inc.com/video/201111/ask-gerber-throwing-in-the-towel.html

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

Create ads that get attention and clearly let people know what your business stands for. Greg Rollett, CEO of the Product Pros, has advice too. View the video on Inc.com at: http://www.inc.com/video/201111/how-to-develop-your-ad-message.html Advertisement: Win New Customers

Baby food is big business. At least it is when you do it like Nest Collective , a Bay Area company that has transformed the baby-food industry by introducing the now-commonplace, BPA-free spouted pouch to the U.S. market through its Plum Organics brand

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Keep your customers coming back! Tips from Birchbox founders Katia Beauchamp and Hayley Barna on inspiring customer loyalty. View the video on Inc.com at: http://www.inc.com/video/201111/ask-gerber-win-repeat-business.html

Do everything you can to encourage users to supply their email to your website.

OkCupid sold to Match.com for $50 million in early 2011.