It may not be as popular as Facebook or Twitter, but this virtual pinboard service is attracting plenty of eyeballs. Here's how to make it work for you. One social site has captured the attention of the masses recently...
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Social media has a lot to say about TV. Can Bluefin cash in on that? Deb Roy created Bluefin's business plan with an MIT colleague in 48 hours.
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Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Iran Blocks U.S. "Virtual" Embassy
Read More »Google+ And Kabam Bring Families Together For New "Godfather" Game
How can Google strike back at the Facebook mob? With games . Google and Kabam hope to do just that with the exclusively-for-Google+ The Godfather: Five Families
Read More »How The "Internet Of Things" Is Turning Cities Into Living Organisms
When city services can autonomously go online and digest information from the cloud, they can reach a level of performance never before seen. First up, water systems that automatically know when it will rain and react accordingly. With a little help from what's called the Internet of Things, engineers are transforming cities from passive conduits for water into dynamic systems that store and manage it like the tissues of desert animals.
Read More »Mallika Chopra on Harnessing the Power of Intent
The daughter of Deepak Chopra talks about choosing--and achieving--what you really want in life. Intent means "purpose." No one understands this better than Mallika Chopra. Taught how to meditate at the age of nine by her world-renowned father Deepak Chopra, an authority in the practice of mind-body medicine and spiritual healing, Mallika is well-versed on how to harness the power of intention.
Read More »Protecting iPhones From Snoopers
Hotspot Shield has just released an iOS version that gives iPhone and iPad users easy, secure VPN access. However, there's a difference: Unlike the PC product, mobile isn't free.
Read More »Go "Home" With A Fast Company T-Shirt
Show off your Fast Company colors in Sony's redesign of their PlayStation Home virtual world. As revealed a few days ago , Sony has finally launched the new version of PlayStation Home.
Read More »Part II: The energy that drives the stars – different technologies for unique demands
(PhysOrg.com) -- Berkeley Lab, a partner in the Heavy Ion Fusion Sciences Virtual National Laboratory (HIFS VNL) with Lawrence Livermore and the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, has been a leader in developing a special kind of accelerator for experiments aimed at fusion power, called an induction accelerator. The induction principle is like a string of transformers with two windings, where the accelerator beam itself is the second winding. Induction accelerators can handle ions with suitable kinetic energy at higher currents (many more charged particles in the beam), much more efficiently than RF accelerators.
Read More »The Friendly Skies: Trippy Gets You Traveling With Friend-Sourcing
Dreaming up travel on Trippy makes it all a reality, says J.R. Johnson, the startup's founder
Read More »3-D Printing Gets Ahead: How Does a Printer Make a Fossil?
In a small basement in the Bronx, the pride of place does not go to a shelf occupied by blue models of deformed skulls. Instead, the focus of the Lehman College 3D Virtual and Solid Visualization Laboratory is a large gray printer. This is no dot-matrix monster
Read More »7 Ways to Work From Anywhere
Author John Warrillow shares the tech tools he uses to run his start-up remotely while traveling through Europe.
Read More »Does Your Idea Have Potential?
Not sure if your new business idea is good enough to succeed? Here are six ways to test it. The facts are sobering: the majority of small businesses fail within five years of starting up
Read More »5 Steps To Get Your Business Ready For Mastering Google Plus
B2B companies have traditionally been laggards in social media , unlike their quick-adopting consumer counterparts. One reason is that B2B doesn’t facilitate the instant easy connections with customers or prospects that B2C can do so well
Read More »Ten Things You Should Know About Social Media
Have you mastered your social media strategy?
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