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Al Jazeera's Secret Gaddafi Tapes: Dictatorship In The Age Of YouTube
Al Jazeera's news special on wiretaps implicating Gaddafi's inner circle in assassinations and staged funerals for media will be fully integrated with social media. "The Dictator" this is not. Al...
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What Art-School Kids In Savannah Teach Us About Urban Renewal
Some of the most interesting revitalization work in Savannah is coming not from the traditional--and often unsuccessful--saviors of decayed neighborhoods. It’s coming from design students, who are...
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When It Comes To Smart Career Advice, CafeMom Knows Best
As a working mom who also happens to be the EVP of CafeMom, a multimedia site that caters to a community of 9 million visitors monthly, Tracy Odell offers some advice on entrepreneurship and work/life...
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This Week In Bots: Robo-Crime And Robo-Punishment
Bot Vid: Transformers, For RealTransformers may be robots in disguise, but the kids' toys that drive the franchise have never been really robotic. There's always been a lot of "pull that, twist this,...
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Twitter Developing Original Sports Content
@JohnMadden @MarvAlbert @BobCostas Watch your backs. #TwitterSports.Sports fans are one of Twitter's core audiences. The microblogging giant hasn't been shy about their interest in working with...
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Top 10 Most Popular Stories Of The Week
Here are the stories you read, shared, tweeted, and pinned this week. This week’s top 10 gives you a glimpse into the minds of top designers, advertisers, and a Chief Collaboration Officer (bet you...
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How Baby Boomers Are Stifling The Marketing Revolution
There’s a new generation gap brewing. Today there are over 77 million baby boomers, the largest demographic cohort in the U.S. (now age 47-66). Not far behind comes Generation Y, the echo boomers, with...
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How To Pick One Good Android Phone
The people who make and sell Android phones don't make it easy to do apples-to-Apples comparisons. Luckily, enough of us have been buying the things to provide some money-saving hindsight.Buying a...
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Clayton Christensen On How To Find Work That You Love
When we find ourselves stuck in unhappy careers, it is often the result of a fundamental misunderstanding of what truly motivates us, says Clayton Christensen, co-author of the new book "How Will You...
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Getting Hitched? Hosting A Conference? This DIY App For Your Big Events Takes...
Technically it's a yapp (get it, your app?), but it still might change your life. "People want to express themselves with this new medium,” cofounder Maria Seidman says. “We’re democratizing app...
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Iran Begins To Lock Out The World From Its Intranet, Beginning With Email
News updates all day from your Fast Company editors.Iran has just required its nationals working in certain institutions to only use its own Iranian-sourced email providers, and to stop interacting...
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Predicting Summer Box Office Hits With Social Media And People, Algorithms Be...
Could Twitter have foreseen the tsunami that was the Avengers opening weekend? Fizziology uses social media to make predictions about box office success--and is doing as well or better as traditional...
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Hipmunk Took The Agony Out Of Flying Then Pivoted To Hotel Booking
A pivot doesn't have to be a change in business model. That's the case with Hipmunk, a flight search aggregator that turned to hotel listings when the airlines began cutting commissions. About This...
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The Startup Scarlet Letter
Claiming your product will revolutionize the industry? Dissing your competitors? Comparing yourself to Steve Jobs? If you don't live up to your own hype, you might end up permanently scarring your...
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Why Tech's Hunger For Overnight Hits Is Bad For Business
Tech is becoming a hits-driven business. This isn't a good thing.illustration by stephan walter No one waited in line to buy the first iPod. It took a year and a half for Apple's shiny, pricey music...
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How Green Dot Charter Turned Around L.A.'s Worst Schools
At L.A.'s worst high schools, gangs controlled the bathrooms and students regularly set hanging artwork on fire. Today, Green Dot Public Schools have dramatically increased graduation rates and college...
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American Express Leverages Spending History, Location For Mobile Deals You...
My Offers taps what AmEx calls the "spend graph" to give cardmembers access to deals and discounts at nearby merchants. And it knows your mom couldn't care less about getting 50% off tickets to a...
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$50 Million Lost To Online Romance Scammers Annually
A just-released report shows how fake debt collectors, fake state troopers, and fake soulmates are responsible for a new wave of highly complicated online scams.Forget your broken heart and wounded...
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A Job-Hopper Settles Down On The Farm, With Twitter
Alison Kosakowski, a 33-year-old former New York City brand planner turned dairy farm blogger, now helps farmers use social media to market themselves and share their unglamorous but rewarding...
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5 Ways To Smarter Ideas From Atari Founder Nolan Bushnell
At the celebration of Mindshare 50th networking event in Los Angeles, Nolan Bushnell said improving intelligence doesn't require state-of-the-art gadgets or mind-altering medication--just a pair of...
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