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U R What U Tweet: 5 Steps To A Better Personal Brand

If you take a look at the top 10 Twitter users you'll see a list of famous men and women who have used the popular platform to further expand their personal brands. Perhaps more interesting, however, is how everyday people are investing more time and energy into social networking for professional purposes.READ»

Anti-Hotel Service Rivalry Heats Up As Wimdu Threatens To "Kick Airbnb's Ass"

Wimdu offers a glimpse into its plans for giving nearly identical rent-your-room service Airbnb a run for its huge chunk of money. READ»

UPDATE | Dude, Where's My Startup?

Michael Caulfield/Getty ImagesWhen we last checked in with Ashton Kutcher in our December 2009 cover story "Ashton Says, 'Follow Me,' " the model-cum-actor-cum-technophile was hell-bent on becoming the next new-media mogul. And, as it ...READ»

The Uptight Citizens' Brigade

Can TV's Ashton Kutcher, Improv Everywhere's Charlie Todd, tech giant Intel, and random people on the street find the gooey center of viral hilarity? At the very least, we'll laugh and learn while their attempts at this piece of the inspiration-seeking IdeaJam project publicly fails. (But, you know, goes viral anyway.)READ»

Airbnb Eyes A Billion, DARPA's New Watchtower, Google Tracks Disease Outbreaks, And More...

The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day.READ»

Ashton Kutcher, Intel Join Forces To Create "Digital Content Units"

Ashton Kutcher's production company Katalyst has revealed its first output from new hothousing venture IdeaJam. Its partnered with Intel and 48 creative professionals for a narrative experiment that will yield "six, short, digital content units." Here's what that means. READ»

Twitter Trends Driven Mostly by Mainstream Media

Forget Ashton Kutcher and Lady Gaga. On Twitter, mainstream media outlets such as CNN, the New York Times, and the BBC dominate trending topics. READ»

DailyBooth's iPhone App: Picturing the Future of Status Updates

DailyBooth, the site that replaces status updates with status photographs, is introducing a new iPhone app tailored to its under 25-year-old fan base that could also help it go mainstream.READ»

Nissan's Social Media Strategy: Hire "Nobodies"

To launch its new line of Juke cars, Nissan is entrusting its brand to "two relatively unknown men with zero celebrity status." Here's why.READ»

How Facebook and Twitter Are Changing the Business World. And How They Aren't

Connecting with the village in your pocket.READ»

HP Names the Most Influential Twitter Users (Sorry, Martha)

HP Labs reveals the most and least influential users on Twitter. Turns out Martha Stewart's two million followers aren't nearly as proactive as she is. READ»

If Privacy Is the New Celebrity, Then Ashton Kutcher Needs a New Career

The Internet is turning lots of nobodies into celebrities. The trouble is, they get all the downside of being famous--people harass them online--and none of the upside, like getting a better table at a fancy restaurant. Founders ...READ»

Adventures in Virality: Jay-Z Spoof "Entrepreneur State of Mind" Namechecks Notable Blogs, Us

Where's Weird Al when you need him? The curly locked spoofmeister could have hit Jay-Z and Alicia Keys' "Empire State of Mind" out of the park, but instead, we're being treated to "The New Dork: Entrepreneur State of Mind." It's a ...READ»

Lady GaGa Is Taking Over the World, One Business Venture at a Time

Lady GaGa already has five #1 singles, two #1 albums, a brand-new comic book deal, and the most talked-about wardrobe (mal)functions this side of the Superbowl XXXVIII halftime show. But what she really wants to do is design.Taking a ...READ»

Anil Dash Attempts to Burst the Twitter Bubble

Nobody has a million Twitter followers, the tech guru claims, they just have hundreds of thousands of inactive users. READ»

Using Your Celebrity to Become Famous

Please tell me I am not the only person to wonder why Ashton Kutcher is using all of his celebrity to become famous. READ»

Ashton Kutcher's Live Webvids: Genius New Format or Celeb Desperation?

Ashton Kutcher was our surprising business story/eyecandy magazine cover subject for December, and here he is in the news again. This time it's for a new type of live Web-cast "TV" show, premiering today. It might be genius. Just ...READ»

Mr. Social: Ashton Kutcher Plans to Be the Next New-Media Mogul

How Ashton Kutcher is pioneering a new kind of media business, bridging Hollywood, technology, and Madison Avenue. Really.READ»

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'Katalyst HQ' Is Facebook's First Hit Series-Can It Be Copied?

No, you're not being punk'd: Ashton Kutcher has officially delivered Facebook's first hit Web series. Since its February premiere, more than 9 million people have watched Katalyst HQ, an Office-like mocumentary that's sponsored by Hot ...READ»

iFive: Amazon's Jeff Bezos Gets to Work, Austin Shares Smart Cars, and 50 Cent Isn't Twittering? in Today's Innovation News

While you were sleeping, innovation worked a double shift, popped a couple of brewskis, and then fell asleep in his work clothes. Here's today's innovation news: The family can stop worrying: Jeff Bezos got a warehouse job in ...READ»