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141: December 2009
Update
Ngmoco Socializes iPhone Gaming
iMo Controller Turns the Iphone Into a Portable Console
Addicting Games Takes on the Teen Market
Namco Networks Takes Advantage of iPhone Technology
For-Profit Colleges and the Student-Loan-Default Gap
Contributors
Feedback
Cenk Uygur Sets Out to Take Down Traditional Television
Biotechs Look Overseas to Launch a Stem-Cell Revolution
Corventis's PiiX Monitor Promises to Predict Heart Failure
When Companies Rev Up Their Corporate Routines
Why Not-For-Profits Should Enlist Celebrity Spokespeople
XEODesign Taps Into Users' Emotions
Jeffrey Katzenberg Plans on Living Happily Ever After
For-Profit Universities Want Some Respect
Fast Company Recommended Events December 2009
Seeing Double: Is It DWR or Someone Else?
The Price of Winning FDA Approval
How to Add Some Fun to Corporate Protocol
Zimbabwe’s Diamond Mines Lead to Rape, Murder, and Thievery
J-Pal’s Most Provocative Inquiries
Freeze: The Antarctic Treaty Turns 50
DreamWorks Animation Has Become a Tech Incubator
Conscious Capitalists Focus on the Ideals of Businesses
Not So Fast: We Crack Open a 1999 Time Capsule
Letter from the Editor: Attitude Is Everything
Which Poverty-Fighting Policies Work? J-PAL Has the Answer
The Rise and Fall of Design Within Reach
Ideo Reimagines the Lowly Thermostat
John Mackey's Vision to Reshape Capitalism
Facebook and Twitter Offer Businesses Opportunities and Challenges
To Sell or Not to Sell: Silicon Valley Acquisitions Market Heats Up
The Simpsons, by the Numbers
Mr. Social: Ashton Kutcher Plans to Be the Next New-Media Mogul
Table of Contents - December 2009
140: November 2009
Update
Letter from the Editor: Faith-Based Business
Cut Your Cable: Hulu's Top 10 TV Shows
Hulu's Competitors: The Wild World of Web TV
Hulu: The Second Life of Network Shows
Three Business Models the $38 Billion Newspaper Industry Could Copy
The Six "Wow" Features of Windows 7
Lost Dollars in Gene Research
How an Economist's Cry for Ethical Capitalism was Heard
The Gene Bubble: Why We Still Aren't Disease-Free
Somnus-Neu: Grier Govorko's Multimedia Bed
Feedback
Feedback
Cellphonometry: Can Kids Really Learn Math From Smartphones?
Not So Fast: Theftsgiving
Residential Real Estate by the Numbers
How High-Profile CEOs Could Revitalize the Libertarian Party
Raising the Woof: 13 Eye-Popping Pet Projects
Five AR Apps to Watch For
Can Chicago's PrivateBancorp Hire Its Way Into the Top Tier?
Intel Risks It All (Again)
Intel Inside ... More Than Computers
Can Hulu Save Traditional TV?
Intel's Everywhere: 75% of the Company's Business is Overseas
A Problem-Solver's Guide to Copycatting
Fast Company Recommended Events November 2009
Coda's All-Electric Sedan Revs Up U.S. Auto Market
Maximize Your Downtime
RFD-TV: How an Ex-Farmer Built a $25 Million Media Empire for Rural America
How to Write a Mission Statement That Isn't Dumb
Augmented Reality Is Both a Fad and the Future -- Here's Why
Battle of the Books: Scroogenomics vs. Shoptimism
Tequila Timeline: From Agave to the Worm
Macy's Pro-Gay Message
American Airlines' Gay-Friendly Skies
Logo's Loyal (and Lucrative) LGBT Following
GLAAD's Helping Hand
Solar Power With Style
Prime Access's LGBT Media Strategy
Novomer's Plastic Reduces Greenhouse Gas-But Will it Biodegrade?
Table of Contents - November 2009
139: October 2009
Infomaniac: Lisa Strausfeld
Space Man: David Rockwell
Pop Artist: David Butler
Object Lessons: Alberto Alessi
Luminous: David Adjaye
Why Mr. Clean Wants to Wash Your Car
Behind the Next Fitness Craze: Reebok's Jukari Fit to Fly
Gilt Groupe Without Guilt: Fans Flaunt Their Finds
Stinking It Up: Lessons From a PR Failure
Click Here: The Short, Inglorious History of Online Advertising
Making Nice: The Stops and Starts of Advertising for a Cause
Why Charging Just a Little Can Be Smarter Than Charging Nothing at All
Money Changers: Eight Startups Brimming With Hope for the Financial Industry
The Real Time Follies: What Could Go Wrong?
Gimme Some Bread
OnLive Goes Online--And It Could Kill the Game Console
McDonald's McCafe in the Making
How Tesco Tweaked Its Fresh & Easy Concept
Gear on the Go
Rising Dough: Why Panera Bread Is on a Roll
MIT's 3-D Digital Scanner Dives Deep Into the Ear
Sikorsky's X2 Technology Doubles Chopper Speed
Feedback
Contributors
Fast Company Recommended Events October 2009
Zazzle Dazzles on Demand
"Reverse Graffiti" Artist Paul Curtis Shows Us How Dirty We Really Are
Design in Action
Femme Den's Five Tenets of Designing for Women
Inside Barbie's Fun House
Letter From the Editor: The Best Rivalry in Business, Refreshed
Li Ning and Ziba Design Want to Build China’s First Truly Global Brand
Forget "Shrink It and Pink It": the Femme Den Unleashed
Numerology: The Business of Candy
Redden: China's 60th Anniversary
How Much Are You Worth to Facebook?
Why Best Buy Is Roaring Into the Electric-Bike Market
Why Market Your Company With Stick-on Emotion When You Can Tap the Real Thing?
Table of Contents - October 2009
138: September 2009
Feedback
How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education
5 Startups to Watch
Heard of Allegiant Air? Why It's the Nation's Most Profitable Airline
How Allegiant Plays from Peoria
Made to Stick: The Gripping Statistic
Funny Business
What Poker Taught Me About Running a Not-for-profit
How Hot Topic's Culture-Heavy Strategy Helped It Sizzle During the Downturn
A Mobile Office
Pollution All Over the Map
Now September 2009
Ranking the Stops on Bill Clinton's Conference Circuit
A Taste of the Honey Business
Andrea Wong Wants to Reinvigorate Lifetime. (Step One: Steal Project Runway)
Local Yokels
Nokia Rocks the World: The Phone King's Plan to Redefine Its Business
An Exclusive Peek at Google's Breakthrough Ideas to Restore Its Waning Glory
Humana Takes Health to the Streets With B-cycle Bike Sharing
"CO2 Pedometer" Lowers Volvo Group Employees' Emissions
Janette Sadik-Khan Wants New Yorkers to Walk This Way
Daimler AG Brings Car2go Car-sharing Service Stateside
Letter from the Editor: Lessons of the Edupunks
Bye-Bye, Dubai
Can Anyone Tap the $100 Billion Potential of Hyperlocal News?
A New Breed of Eco-Designers Reimagines the Detritus of Our Daily Lives
How Cycling Centers Could Help Smooth Commuter Transitions
Beyond CSI: Inside Anthony Zuiker's New Cross-Platform Experiment
Daddy Givebucks: Lessons Learned When Warren Buffett Hands You $1 Billion
How L.A. Metro Is Enticing Riders With Better Design
My Life With a Hackintosh--and How the Movement Suggests a New Model for Innovation
The Gripping Statistic: How to Make Your Data Matter
Table of Contents - September 2009
137: July 2009
Why Overhead Isn’t Evil in the Non-Profit World
Little-Known Redbox Proves the Power of In-Between Technology
Update
Feedback
Three Lessons in "Rational" Prices Raising Ethical Questions
Robots Help Trains Stay on the Rails
How Xerox Tapped the Power of Reuse
Nature's 10 Simple Rules for Business Survival
Watch: Harry Potter 6
How Body Sensors Are Gaming the Health System
Numerology: Hawaii Five-O
How the Networked Body Is Reinventing the Consumer
How Toumaz Is Building a Complete Ecosystem for the Networked Body
Tracing the Evolution of Consumer Electronics. What’s Next?
One Lesson From the Crisis: It's Time to Create Your Own Economy
Letter from the Editor: Endless Energy
Why the Microgrid Could Be the Answer to Our Energy Crisis
Why America Is Addicted to Olive Garden
Gavin Newsom Wants to Be Governor of California. Would You Hire Him?
Drill: The U.S. Oil Industry Turns 150
Why Walgreens Is Building Its Own Universal Health-Care System
Patagonia’s Founder on Why There’s “No Such Thing as Sustainability”
Fast Company Recommended Events July + August 2009
How BodyMedia Is Making Fitness Data Personal
Not So Fast: Summer Movies We're Afraid to See
The Darden Menu
Gadi Amit on Designing a Lifestyle App for the Networked Body
Boomtown: The Real Money Behind Virtual Goods
How Mayo Clinic and Microsoft Are Empowering Patients
A Tour of America's First Zero-Impact, Supergreen "Living Building"
Amazon Taps Its Inner Apple
More Creative Shops Are Commercializing Their Own Product Lines
Behind the Rebranding Campaign of Wal-Mart’s Scarlet Woman
Humanscale's Desktop Air Purifier Promises a Cone of Clean Air
Close-Up on Hollywood's Creature Teacher
Why Your Gut Is More Ethical Than Your Brain
Table of Contents - July 2009
135: May 2009
Top Apps
Update
Meth Mouth: Tom Siebel's Brash Anti-Crystal Campaign
McG's $2 Billion Machine
Why Electronic Health Records Are Worth the Hype -- and the Price
Feedback
Three Successful Viral Marketing Campaigns
Biotechs Wage War on Superbugs
Letter From the Editor: What We Can't Live Without
Innovators Reveal Cool, Creative Spots in Seattle
HarperStudio: A New Book Publishing Model That Pays Authors 50-50
Can E-book Readers Like the Sony Reader Dominate the Industry in 10 Years?
Meet the Famous Faces at Berkshire Hathaway's Annual Meeting
Shelfari Brings Social Networking to Book Reading
How to Monitor Your Brand 24/7
Now: May 2009
Hobo 3.0: A Convention for the New, New, New Economy!
The Doctor of the Future
Inside the Next-Gen GPS-based Airplane Landing System
Old Spice Smells Like a Billion Bucks
The 39 Clues: Reading Is Just Part of the Game
Fast Cities: New Orleans
Seattle: City of the Year
Fast Cities: Cleveland
Fast Cities: San Francisco
Blurb's $30 Million Sold Proves Print Still Rocks
The Top Mobile Apps
The Entrepreneur
The Ad Guy
The Brand Man
The Superfan
The Developer
The Storekeeper
UC Davis's Energy Efficiency Center Makes Conservation Sexy
Mobile App Mania
Horror Flicks: Graphic Meth Ads [Video]
Fast Cities: Chicago
Fast Cities: Tucson
Fast Cities: Philadelphia
Fast Cities: Taipei, Taiwan
Fast Cities: Malmö, Sweden
Fast Cities: Houston
Fast Cities: Denver
Fast Cities: Vancouver, British Columbia
Fast Cities: New York
"Design for a Living World" Connects Consumers to a Product's Source
Hollywood's Rogue Mogul: How Terminator Director McG Is Blowing Up the Movie Business
The Business of Barbecue
Honeywell's GPS-based Landing Tech Could Save Airlines Billions
Three Secrets to Make a Message Go Viral
Table of Contents - May 2009
134: April 2009
25 Ways to Jump-Start the Auto Business
Lessons From The Trenches
How Chris Hughes Helped Launch Facebook and the Barack Obama Campaign
The Community That Hughes Built
Editor's Letter: Two Wicked Startups, One Common Thread
Big Stretch
Unchicken? Synthetic Flavors Get More Authentic
Feedback
Update
Idea Factory
Self-Healing Paints Clot Like Blood
What Should I Do With My Life Now?
Supersizing McDonald's Eco-Cred
Successful Experiments in Customer Restraint
Lululemon’s Cult of Selling
Duplicity Director Tony Gilroy on How Spying Can Trump Innovation
How Y Combinator Schools Tech Startups
Turn-by-Turn Career Directions
Fast Company Recommended Events April 2009
Harvard Goes To Hollywood
HOK Imagines the Ballpark of the Future
The Stadium of the Future
Hyper Island Grooms the Next Generation of Digital Media
Rwanda Rising: A New Model of Economic Development
The Business of Golf
Green? Yes. But Just How Sustainable Is Your Product?
Will NPR Save the News?
Happy 20th Birthday, Dilbert!
A Tongue-in-Cheek Guide for Green Gadget Buyers
Tips for Netbook Shoppers
Sylvania Builds for a Bulbless Future
Why Customers Will Pay You to Restrain Them
Table of Contents - April 2009
133: March 2009
Do Something: Jurassic Park Syndrome
Do Something: Jurassic Park Syndrome
Feedback
Panjiva: A Morningstar for Manufacturing
Trickle-Up Trends
Gadgets You Can Swallow
Banking Stem Cells For Future Use
Lifestyle Drugs For Creative Professionals
Presenting the 50 Most Innovative Companies
Now March 2009
How Setting Modest Goals Can Lead Toward Success
Clean Coal: It's Not a Misnomer, But is it the Answer?
Why For-Profits Need Not-For-Profits
Update
How Innovations from Developing Nations Trickle-Up to the West
David Rockwell's Imagination Playground
The Numbers Behind St. Patrick's Day
Set Smaller Goals, Get Bigger Results
Table of Contents - March 2009
132: February 2009
TiVo Brings Web Video to TV
AT&T's Telehealth Wirelessly Monitors Patients' Health
Water Desalination: The Answer to the World's Thirst?
Wyeth's Multibillion-dollar Biotech Bet
HP Introduces Bright Colors for Somber Times
Walleye's Microwave Camera Brings X-ray Vision Home
AT&T's Telehealth Wirelessly Monitors Patients' Health
Can Wind Power a Rural Renaissance?
GE's New Ecomagineer Spills It
Numerology: The Business of Roses
Mobile World Congress Preview
ComScore Sees the Bigger Picture
Editor's Letter: What Obama and Shaun White Have in Common
Updates
Feedback
How To Pass The BPA Test
Next-Gen Investing
How Green is Wireless Electricity?
Manufacturing Doubt in Product Defense
Shaun White's Business is Red Hot
The Most Influential Women in Technology
Incentive Clauses Gone Bad
CEOs Who Risk Big for Big Paydays
Women in Tech: The Executives
Women in Tech: The Entrepreneurs
Women in Tech: The Gamers
Women in Tech: The Evangelists
Women in Tech: The Activists
Women in Tech: The Bloggers
Women in Tech: The Brainiacs
The Real Story Behind Bisphenol A
Google Takes on TV Ads
Ffwd to Bring Order to the World of Online Video
ESPN Scores With Broadband TV Network
TiVo Brings Web Video to TV
Beefonomics: Cargill Meat Solutions Turns Trash to Cash
Four Lessons in Creative Repurposing
The Best Super Bowl Ad Ever!
Nonprofits? Not a Recessionary Refuge for Job Seekers
Ideo's David Kelley on "Design Thinking"
Now February 2009
Wireless Electricity Is Here (Seriously)
Six Tools to Help Tackle Overflowing Email
Why Incentives Are Irresistible, Effective, and Likely to Backfire
Table of Contents - February 2009
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Ashton Kutcher is pioneering a new kind of media business, bridging Hollywood, tech, and Madison Ave. Really.
If the Delivery Guy Drops Your Package, Senseaware Updates You Online
To Sell or Not to Sell: Silicon Valley Acquisitions Market Heats Up
Slideshow
Rise and Sprawl: How Los Angeles Came to Be
Getting What You Pay For
Airlines Charge Less for More Suffering
60 Years Later, Everyone's Still Loving the AK-47
Slideshow
The 12 Best and Worst Digital Characters
Undead Tech
Apple's Magic Mouse Has Trackball Bad-Assitude
Designers Accord
Plumen Twists Your Ideas of a Low-Impact Light Bulb
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