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What "Tree Of Life" Teaches About Movies In the Age Of Smartphones

BY John PavlusWed Jun 1, 2011

"Lawrence of Arabia -- there's a film where certain things in it are just not going to work on your iPhone," Jason Brush says. But what if it could? What if there were a way for filmed narrative storytelling -- aka cinema -- to ... READ»

TECHNOLOGY | Comment

Mike Tyson, App Maker: "I Don't Want To Be A Dinosaur"

BY David ZaxFri May 13, 2011

Mike Tyson's entered the next phase of his career: creative consultant for the wildly successful iPhone game, "Mike Tyson: Main Event." And while plenty of celebrities lend their names to products, Tyson tells Fast Company he's poured his heart into this one--and found kindred spirits among hardcore gamers.READ»

INNOVATION | Comment

Crowdstory's Audio Easter Egg Hunt

BY David ZaxTue May 3, 2011

A new student startup lets you leave behind miniature stories everywhere you go. In the process, it might just help create a little tech hub in an unexpected place: Oklahoma.READ»

MANAGEMENT | Comment

SXSW 2011 Highlight Reel: "Machete"'s Danny Trejo and Robert Rodriguez, and Some Slightly Creepy Clay

BY Fast Company StaffTue Mar 29, 2011

What's cooler than Danny Trejo as a knife-wielding outlaw in Machete? Danny Trejo as a knife-wielding outlaw...rendered in clay.READ»

INNOVATION | Comment

Urban Graffiti Knitters Are the New, Cozier Christo and Jeanne-Claude

BY Susan KarlinFri Mar 25, 2011

Welcome to the quirky world of "graffiti knitting," a global movement of several hundred artists dedicated to adorning otherwise stoic effigies of urban life--lampposts, statues, mailboxes--with knitted scarves, animals, and wraps. READ»

DANNY TREJO

SxSW 2011 in Photos

BY Fast Company StaffThu Mar 24, 2011

Here's what you missed if you missed Fast Company's white hot panels at the PepsiCo Stage at SXSW 2011. READ»

ARI KARPEL | Comment

On Pom Wondeful, Morgan Spurlock, and My Brand

BY Ari KarpelTue Mar 22, 2011

Call me behind the times, but I'd never seriously considered cultivating my brand. It took 17 years working in print media and an assignment covering Morgan Spurlock's "Greatest Movie Ever Sold" to figure it out. READ»

REDDIT | Comment

SXSW 2011 Highlight Reel: Designing Careers That Don't Yet Exist

BY Fast Company StaffTue Mar 22, 2011

Reddit's Alexis Ohanian, @TheRecruiterGuy's Chris Hoyt, and Behance's Scott Belsky talk about the importance of shower time, living with your parents, and "dangerous engagement," among other things--in a SXSW panel moderated by Fast Company's Anya KamenetzREAD»

GROUPME | Comment

SXSW 2011 Highlight Reel: GroupMe, Privacy, and Getting "Zucked With"

BY Fast Company StaffThu Mar 17, 2011

GroupMe founders Steve Martocci and Jared Hecht joined Fast Company on stage to talk about the NYC startup scene, acquisitions, paying engineers, challenges of a noisy mobile market, plus Zuck and privacy. READ»

GROUPON | Comment

SXSW 2011 Highlight Reel: Groupon Client Airs Beefs and Benefits of the Daily Deal Service

BY Fast Company StaffThu Mar 17, 2011

Frank Gruber, CEO and Co-founder of Tech Cocktail, and Travis Kalanick, a longtime Silicon Valley entrepreneur who runs online car service Uber--and is a Groupon client--responds to the company's presentation at SXSW, taking the opportunity to call them out for shoddy service. When Groupon's SVP of sales stands up in the audience to respond, things get interesting. READ»

DESIGN | Comment

AIGA Launches Design for Good, Asking Members to Donate 5% of Their Time to Social and Civic Causes

BY Alissa WalkerThu Mar 17, 2011

How the design association is advocating on behalf of designers in government, business, and society--plus how AIGA helped Gap rethink their disastrous crowdsourced logo idea.READ»

TECHNOLOGY | Comment

Wanted: The Bag o' 4G That Whips HD Video to the Cloud

BY Chris DannenWed Mar 16, 2011

With 14 networked cellular connections and an onboard PC, LiveU's mobile video uplink might mean a lot more local news vans for sale on Craigslist.READ»

TECHNOLOGY | Comment

Welcome to CNN's New Digital Playground: TV Everywhere!

BY Gregory FerensteinWed Mar 16, 2011

From Video Commenting to iReport Integration, mobile consumers and videophiles are about to have a lot more on-the-go options from CNN.com--and presumably others to come.READ»

MACHEEN | Comment

Macheen's "Hot" PCs Give a Whole New Meaning to the Internets

BY Chris DannenWed Mar 16, 2011

Simpler, always-on wireless connections will make gadgets cheaper and make the Web ala carte.READ»

CONSUMER PRODUCTS | Comment

Why PayPal Doesn't Care About NFC

BY Chris DannenTue Mar 15, 2011

Some of SXSW's hottest startups say they're here to help small businesses compete, but eBay execs say those merchants want something else entirely.READ»

GROUPME | Comment

The Messy, Fragmented World of Group Messaging Apps

BY Austin CarrTue Mar 15, 2011

If SXSW serves as a barometer of hot trends in tech, then group messaging and texting apps are one of the hottest--even by Austin, Texas, standards. Are they worth the hype?READ»

LEADERSHIP | Comment

LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman: Data Wrangler of The Modern Age

BY Ellen McGirtTue Mar 15, 2011

Reid Hoffman, angel investor, co-founder of LinkedIn and Fast Company Most Creative Person, took the stage at SXSW interactive as part of the distinguished speaker series, and immediately brought the ballroom back to the future. ...READ»

GROUPON | Comment

SXSW Panel 2011: Tech Cocktail Talks About What's Next for Marketing

BY Fast Company StaffTue Mar 15, 2011

Fast Company spoke to Frank Gruber from Tech Cocktail about what trends we can expect in the future from social marketing.READ»

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY | Comment

PepsiCo to Coke: Our 100% PlantBottle Is 70% Plantier Than Your PlantBottle

BY Ariel SchwartzTue Mar 15, 2011

Coca-Cola made headlines in 2009 when it introduced the PlantBottle, a beverage bottle made from 30% plant-based materials. The company's ultimate goal has been to make a 100% plant-based bottle--but now PepsiCo has beaten it to the punch.READ»

TECHNOLOGY | Comment

What Felicia Day Left Out of Her Web Video SXSW 2011 Keynote

BY Chris DannenMon Mar 14, 2011

Small announcements by online video players Rovi and Vimeo are harbingers of seismic shifts in the way we find TV shows we like. Here's a peek at the new plumbing pumping life into web TV recommendations. READ»