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Innovation Lessons From The Washington Post
For an industry that is based on diving into the unknown, the news business has been notoriously adverse to exploring real innovation in its own industry--despite the fact that it has been floating in...
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New Facebook Timeline Is All About Discovery And Explosive Revenue Growth
Users can now get music, movies, and more right from their new Timeline-enabled profile pages. And Facebook can tap into a mighty Apple app store-like river of cash.Today, Facebook unveiled the third...
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What The New Facebook Changes Mean For Businesses
Ordinary people and small businesses using Facebook are going to have to come to grips with two new terms after the big announcements Mark Zuckerberg made today at f8, the Facebook Developer...
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Tangled, Too: Why A Wireless World Will Never Exist
Forget Wi-Fi, forget Bluetooth, forget NFC and even wireless charging--that rat's nest of wires behind your computer desk is going nowhere fast. No matter what a recent Apple patent portends. Apple...
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This Week In Bots: Sorry, Goose, But It's Time To Buzz A Tower
Quadrocopters Landing On Quadrocopters ... And So On Ad-InfinitumWe know quadrocopters are maneuverable in extremis, and we know that they can move in ever-smarter aerial ballets with other units,...
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Mastodon Turns Metalheads Into Three-Jawed Minotaurs
Go behind the scenes of the band's very metal adventures in augmented reality. Blame iTunes and its instant digital gratification. Blame YouTube and Vevo for making music videos ubiquitous. And blame...
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JetBlue Airways Chairman Joel Peterson: Innovation Is Hiding In Plain Sight
Sometimes innovation looks like good old-fashioned customer service served with a heaping helping of passion from a forward-thinking entrepreneur.Sometimes innovation doesn’t look like a new social...
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Business Schools Add Courses On Ethics, But Are Graduates More Ethical?
Post-financial meltdown, business schools are trying to make their graduates more responsible. But does taking one class on ethics work, or does a new ethical model need to permeate the curriculum?...
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Groupon Loses COO & Updates S-1, Blockbuster Boasts 500,000 Subscriptions In...
This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day.Groupon's COO Going Back To Google After Just Five Months. In a post on the deal company's blog, CEO Andrew Mason is...
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Why Yahoo Isn’t Embedding Content On Facebook
Facebook today just made it easier for media companies to help users discover new music, articles, and books by seeing what their friends are reading, watching, and listening too. As a result, some...
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Facebook, Netflix Push Congress on Social Integration, Video Privacy
At today's Facebook f8 developer conference, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings joined Mark Zuckerberg on stage for a surprise announcement: Netflix will finally be integrating social sharing with Facebook....
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Applying Superstar Compensation To White-Collar Professionals
With U.S. unemployment stuck at 9 percent and job creation on everyone's mind, why aren't more companies looking at this model?Many professional athletes have incentive-laden contracts based on...
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Let Them Eat Ethanol And Cash
How biofuels and speculation are driving food prices to scary new heights.Why have global food prices spiked not once, but twice in the last three years, raising the specter of famine and triggering...
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Now, Where Was I? 6 Strategies For Dealing With Workplace Distractions
Distractions at work are nothing new. Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) wrote about strategies for dealing with work distractions way back in the 1300s. In his Life of Solitude, Petrarch offers the...
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With She's The First, Tammy Tibbetts Uses Social Media For Social Change
Can social media drive social change? 25-year-old Tammy Tibbetts is trying to figure that out through She's The First, a non-profit dedicated to helping girls around the world to become the first in...
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Simbol Materials Is Turning The U.S. Into A Lithium Production Powerhouse
You may not see it in your home, but chances are that lithium plays a large part in your life--the stuff is found in laptop batteries, pharmaceuticals, and electric car batteries, and it is considered...
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The Netflix Of Terrorism
Terrorist organizations are notorious videographers--particularly when it comes to uploading clips to the web to spread messages or recruit sympathizers. Now private company IntelCenter has assembled...
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The Creative Brain On Exercise
For artists, entrepreneurs, and any other driven creators, exercise is a powerful tool in the quest to help transform the persistent uncertainty, fear, and anxiety that accompanies the quest to create...
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Nissan's Future Mind-Reading Cars Won't Steer You Wrong
Forget self-driving cars; Nissan and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland (EPFL) have teamed up to work on mind-reading vehicle technology. Truly hands-free driving may not be...
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An MFA Degree For Designers Who Want To Change The World
So you want to change the world? Cynics may send you off to Wall Street or a white-shoe law firm. Those with gumption will look for another way. The new Master's of Fine Arts in Design for Social...
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