Features

Is Michael Arrington One of the World's Most Influential People?

Kermit Pattison — Fri, 09 May 2008 19:05:54 -0400

GiveWell Tried to Improve Philanthropy’s Credibility -- and Lost Its Own

Anya Kamenetz — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:45:51 -0400

Holden Karnofsky and Elie Hassenfeld were psyched. On December 20, their startup, GiveWell, scored a media hat trick, appearing in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and on CNBC's Power Lunch. In a sign of the times, GiveWell was a nonprofit. Karnofsky and Hassenfeld, both 26, quit hedge-fund jobs last year and started a foundation with $325,000 from themselves and their friends. Their mission was to gather and disseminate exhaustive data on the effectiveness of charities.

FastCompany.com Update

Edward Sussman — Mon, 05 May 2008 10:10:07 -0400

Google's Surfing Safari

Alex Halperin — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:45:42 -0400

"We feel that we should be a catalyst," Joseph Mucheru says, sitting in his office that overlooks central Nairobi. We, in this case, is Google, and the stout 39-year-old Kenyan heads the company's first outpost in sub-Saharan Africa. About 5% of Africans are online, but the thinking is that as the Internet grows, so will Google.

Under the Sea

Theunis Bates — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:45:32 -0400

Each December, the sun sets over northern Norway and doesn't reemerge until late January. But this past winter, a fiery vista of reds and oranges pierced the darkness. It wasn't the northern lights, at least not the natural ones. It was the flare-off from the Snøhvit gas field, the first major Arctic fossil-fuel facility outside of Alaska.

Journal-ist: Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

James Kuczmarski — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:46:36 -0400

The Wide, Wide World of Heroes

Ellen Gibson — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:05:08 -0400

NBC's Heroes racked up the network's top-selling DVD for 2007 by cultivating die-hard fans with extensions of the show's fantasy world across every form of media (while selling plenty of additional advertising against those extensions along the way). Just how wide is the transmedia universe of Heroes? "I don't envy you the task of tracking it all," says co-executive producer Jesse Alexander. We tried anyway...

Recaps & Web Extras

Does a New Website Hold the Secret to Great Customer Service?

Kermit Pattison — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:10:06 -0400

How to Fix the Web

Robert Scoble — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:45:57 -0400

"Please say who you are, what you do, and how the Web is screwed up." How's that for an icebreaker? That was the way Kevin Lynch, Adobe's CTO, grabbed his audience at the company's annual developers event this year, throwing open a discussion about what we don't like about the Web and what we'd like to see fixed.

Primer: The Big-Bang Machine

Theunis Bates — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:46:33 -0400