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The Teen, The Tweet, And The Governor: Social Media Lessons From The Emma...
What happens when a teenager tells a governor he “#blowsalot” on Twitter? Here are four lessons on teens, social media, and politics from the Emma Sullivan affair.The whole thing blew up pretty...
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Flavors.me Wants To Curate Your Fragmented Social Media
Oversharing is an overwhelming problem online. Keeping up with all your news and interests and social channels can be exhausting--it's why innumerable aggregators exist (from Huffington Post to Reddit...
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Upgrade Your Family And Coworkers' Tech Without Becoming Their Help Desk
Want to help out your less tech-savvy coworkers and loved ones? Don't just upgrade their browser. Set them up with these tools so they can help themselves and hassle you less.At work, deep in a...
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Designing Curiosity, The Biggest Little Rover For Mars
Nearly one metric ton of hardware will land on Mars in about nine months' time, uncurl its limbs, and start rolling around in the name of science. Designing something like Curiosity isn't easy.Around...
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Why Nvidia's CEO Is Embracing The Zynga-Fication Of Mobile Gaming
Players of the highly popular mobile game Fruit Ninja need a blade to slice watermelons into pieces. And they need a slingshot to exact revenge on evil green pigs in Angry Birds, and a sharp eye to...
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At $24,263.18, The Cost Of Christmas Is Up 3.5 Percent This Year
The annual PNC Christmas Price Index is a giant, interactive infographic on the price tag for The 12 Days of Christmas. The 12 Days of Christmas is the granddaddy of holiday memes. For centuries, the...
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Google Earth, Foreign Wars, And The Future Of Satellite Imagery
DigitalGlobe, the firm that provides much of the imagery for Google Earth, is launching a next-generation satellite in 2014. However, the super-sharp images of the WorldView-3 aren't for Google and...
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How To Prepare When You Only Get One Shot At Persuasion
If you’ve seen Eminem’s movie 8 Mile, you surely remember the scene of an industrial basement packed with hip-hop fans assembled for the battle between rival rappers. Will they cheer you or boo you off...
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Blake Simmons On Creating Fuel From Plants
In this extended version of the talk from our new issue, we speak with Blake Simmons, the VP for deconstruction at the Department of Energy's Joint Bioenergy Institute about competing with the fossil...
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Education's Economics Of Scarcity
All across the United States, nay all around the world, the message about higher education is uniform: More people should go to university. President Obama has repeatedly stated on record that "by 2020...
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Facebook Settles FTC Privacy Complaints, Battlefield 3 Banned In Iran, Buyers...
Breaking bits of innovation from the vigilant Fast Company staff. Check back for updates all day. Facebook Settles FTC Privacy Complaints. The Federal Trade Commission says the social network has...
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Work Smart: Optimize Your Life With A/Me Testing
The old adage "if it ain't broke don't fix it" is wrong--it cripples us when it comes to optimizing what works.Google is famous for its relentless A/B testing, a technique for making constant...
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Do u h8 h8? DoSomething.org Wants Teens To Text For Social Good :)
Through a new membership model, Do Something is counting on text messages to create a movement of 5 million teenage activists by 2015. Can they get Generation Text to care about poverty, hunger,...
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How Path Is Becoming A "Smart Journal"
Path steps away from the "photo-sharing" category and firmly joins the emerging rank of apps--from Facebook to Erly--that are devising ways to create digital scrapbooks of our lives.When Path launched...
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E-Readers Don't Have Anything On These Books
E-readers work dandy for straight stories, but some books demand the traditional treatment: lush photos, glossy pages, and a heft that commands considered travel. God bless the flip-worthy, full-color...
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Australian Samsung Ban Lifted, Lenovo Plans Connected TV, FCC Damns...
This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. YouTube Turbo-Boosts Analytics. YouTube has taken its Insight system, which for some time has been able to supply...
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Salesforce Builds A SocialHub Around Its $326 Million Radian6
In May, cloud-based enterprise company Salesforce.com acquired Radian6, the social media monitoring startup, for $326 million. Salesforce, which is best known for CRM or customer relationship...
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Microsoft's Windows Tablets Of Next Year...Or Never
Yesterday it emerged that Microsoft's Windows 8 tablets, running on ARM chips (less power consuming than Intel's offerings), are finally due in mid-2013. It's exciting news for Windows fans, and...
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The 3 Best Cheap Marketing Moves Of All Time
Is it possible to brand an entire country for less than $200,000? Or, for less than $2,000, can you brand a person so successfully that they create headlines worldwide? Here are three cases of...
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Is Daily Deals Dashboard Frugalo The Cure For Groupon Fatigue?
There is a lot of money riding on the daily deals phenomenon. Consumers are able to take advantage of special discounts offered through the service based upon bulk sales. Businesses get large spikes in...
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