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Buddy Media's Michael Lazerow Makes People (Actually) Like Your Facebook Page
For companies in any industry, it's adapt or die when it comes to social media. "The world is reorganizing around people, and companies need to reorganize around people," says Michael Lazerow, the...
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The Philippines' Mind Museum Fuses Modern Architecture, Science, And Art
The Philippines's new Mind Museum looks downright alien amid Taguig's industrial skyscrapers. Lead architect Ed Calma wouldn't have it any other way--he knows that in an Internet age, a museum's draw...
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"The People's Skype" And Occupy Wall Street Hackathons
Academics and researchers sympathetic to the #Occupy movement have created a "People's Skype" and participated in a multinational hackathon that took advantage of a massive social media archive.Months...
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The Race For Mobile Payments
The fight is on to turn your smartphone into a wallet. Who will win?Getty Images Over the next 7 to 10 years, major tech, retail, and financial players will duke it out to make the "mobile wallet" a...
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How Do You Sell A Diamond Ring At A 900% Increase? Be Elizabeth Taylor
Christie's auction house will sell off the glimmering collection of the late Elizabeth Taylor beginning December 13 in New York. It's expected to fetch well over $30 million. From eBay to auction...
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Malcolm Gladwell Has No Idea Why "The Tipping Point" Was A Hit
As part of our Leadership Hall of Fame series, we continue our fresh look at The Tipping Point with an interview of author Malcolm Gladwell.What was the impetus for you to write The Tipping Point? I...
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You Don’t Need An Army When You Have Seal Team 6
When I started VIA in 1993, my mother sent me a card with the famous quote from Margaret Mead: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the...
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Why Your Car Is The Next Advertising Battleground
Those hours you spend driving each day will soon be interrupted with contextual advertising, pointing you to that Starbucks around the corner or the McDonald's just down the street.Imagine this: You're...
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WTF, Indeed: Politico's Ben Smith Joins BuzzFeed To Build A "Social News...
Why did the meme factory hire the serious political reporter? They saw eye-to-eye on one important thing: the social network optimization of the news.BuzzFeed is a website that aggregates meme-y...
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Scientists Make "God Particle" Announcement, Brazil Gets iTunes Upgrade,...
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day.Opposing SOPA, Wikipedia Considers Blackout. As a message to legislators who'll vote on the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) in the...
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New York City's Digital Deficiency
Sure, it would be neat if an app could help me find a local pickup game in my neighborhood, but is that something residents of New York City actually need?You are circling the block yet again,...
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The One Resolution You Need To Make In 2012
As the New Year approaches, many of us are thinking about our resolutions. What will we vow to do this coming year to be better--both at what we do for a living, and as members of the human...
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The Click Clique: Apple, Microsoft, And Others Don't Care About Your New TV...
Television remote controls are evolving more than they have at any time in the past 60 years--but where we're going, we may not need them.The question of how remote controls may change in our...
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Need A Lab In Outer Space? Try ScienceExchange, The Airbnb Of Weird Science
Want to grow crystals aboard the International Space Station? ScienceExchange is fast becoming the go-to marketplace for extreme laboratory environments. Let's say you're a scientist, and you're...
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Human Lie Detector Paul Ekman Decodes The Faces Of Depression, Terrorism, And...
Since he experienced tragedy at age of 14, the real-life psychologist who inspired the show "Lie To Me" has searched for signs of hidden human emotion in faces. New applications based on his findings...
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An iPad In Every Store: Belly Wants Local Merchants And Their Customers To...
Digital loyalty is a hot topic right now, mainly because store loyalty is a system that's ripe for some technology innovation (all those paper punch-and-stamp cards...so old-fashioned!) and because it...
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Storytelling 2.0: Cowbird Classes Up Our Communication
After testing it out on himself and 100 other storytellers, Jonathan Harris launches Cowbird, a website that seeks to become the ultimate public library of human experience.Our standard mode of written...
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Lessons From Serial Fabulist Stephen Glass On How Not To Reboot A Career
The writer who made up stories for The New Republic, Rolling Stone, Harper's and others (then tried to lie his way out) is fighting to become a lawyer in California. To the journalist who busted his...
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Outbrain's Content Recommending Ways Seduce Readers To Stick Around
The New York-based startup demolishes conventional wisdom about the best ways to draw in readers--and snaps up $64 million in financing.Online recommendations systems are usually based on the...
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Zipcar Targets Europe With Barcelona Car Sharer Buy, PayPal To Launch Daily...
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Nokia Eyes U.S. With Lumia Windows Phone. Come January, Nokia will launch the $50 Lumia 710, Nokia's first Windows phone for the...
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