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A GPS Social Enterprise Finder To Find The Best Businesses Near You
This new tool will help drive customers to more ethical businesses, and make it easier for lazy customers to get that carbon-neutral Fair Trade coffee in a compostable cup.
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A Vegetable-Growing Factory That Fits In A Parking Space
Your rooftop farm is cute and all, but this garden in a box could be the true solution to growing produce in urban environments.
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6 New Ways To Encourage Work Ethic
Any manager can get people to do what she wants by standing next to them. But what happens when the manager turns away? The workers must feel an internal need to comply with what they know is right....
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"Call Parade" Turns 100 São Paulo Phone Booths Into Buzzworthy Art
In São Paulo, 100 artists were set loose upon 100 phone booths, with the idea of curbing vandalism by one-upping the vandals.
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A Full Circle Moment: Gotye Makes His Own Tribute To Fans' Tributes To...
Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know” inspired countless YouTube reinterpretations. The artist rounded up his favorites and edited them together for an excellent homemade symphony.
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How Polyvore Does Funding
Jess Lee cofounded Polyvore, a fashion collage startup poised to blow up. She's learned that investors want to know the market, the product, and the team--better to prep your pitch.
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SEO Isn't What You Think It Is
Marketers are buzzing from the aftershocks of Google's recent most updates, code-named Panda and Penguin. Panda, which launched around February of 2011, started using artificial intelligence in new...
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Smart Sockets Let You Control Your Power From Your Phone
German researchers are trying to revolutionize the way we turn things on and off. Flipping switches is so 20th century.
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DoSomething.org Turns To Texting To Help Teens On The Brink
The teen-oriented social impact organization created a groundswell of support for social causes from thousands of new members when it started texting its user base. Now, they want to use mobile...
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How To Build Your House On A Giant's Back
Dalton Caldwell, an entrepreneur best known as the cofounder of Picplz, has vowed to never write another line of code for Facebook or Twitter. In an open letter heard around the developer world, he...
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This Woman Traveled Across The Country For Free Using Only Social Media
As part of an experiment by Audi, Lindsay Rule made it from Boston to San Francisco relying only on the kindness of strangers and the electronic networks that now tie us all together.
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Introducing The Battery Made Out Of Wood Waste
Batteries require a lot of metal, and metal is something we don’t have an infinite supply of. We do have a lot of trees, however…
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Rumor Patrol: The Lowdown On Upcoming Apple Gear
iPhone Parts A huge number of components that are allegedly part of Apple's upcoming new iPhone have surfaced via Apple's Asian supplier chain--seemingly many more than we've seen for an unreleased...
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Buying Twitter Followers? Beware StatusPeople, The Service That Exposes...
Late Sunday afternoon my friend @caronsue (2477 followers) posted a photo on Twitter displaying her StatusPeople "Faker Score," revealing that 96% of her followers are good, 3% inactive, and only 1%...
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Target, Wal-Mart, 7-Eleven Among A Group Of U.S. Stores Entering Mobile...
The Wall Street Journal has revealed that a large group of big-name U.S. stores is planning its own entry into the burgeoning mobile payments market. The companies include Target, Wal-Mart, 7-Eleven...
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How I Finally Went Cold Turkey From Working On Vacation
How do you take vacation and then actually disconnect from work when you are away? These are two of the most consistent and, seemingly intractable, work and life challenges people in the U.S. struggle...
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Your Smartphone Could Be Telling Advertisers How You Shop And Spend
Your smartphone could be telling advertisers about your spending habits--what stores, restaurants, and attractions you and others around you visit and how you spend. JiWire's new Location Graph, which...
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How Hipmunk Got Started
Why did Adam Goldstein found Hipmunk? "It was built around a problem that I actually had," the travel-smart CEO says.
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Have You Registered 300 Domain Names?
Lea Woodward (left) is an entrepreneur, whose projects include Location Independent, a site supporting those wanting to live a nomadic lifestyle, and Startup Training School, which teaches online tech...
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5 Steps To Handling Your Next Brand Crisis
The past couple of years have seen numerous brands get into trouble and then have to find their way back to winning the hearts and minds of their customers, stakeholders, and society at large....
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