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E-HEALTH   |  5 comments

Healing Yourself Via YouTube: The Amazing and Frightening Future of Health Care

Social media is going to change the health-care industry just as radically as it changed entertainment, finance, and publishing. I know this to be true not because of any insider info or the research backing Chuck Salter's ...READ»

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Microcelebrity Is the Key To Success In Today's Freebie World

"How would you make money if you owned Twitter?" Venture capitalist and CEO of Alltop Guy Kawasaki asked Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson at the closing keynote of SXSW. "That was one of the questions I was ...READ»

Playing Foursquare

Playing Foursquare: A Mobile Social Game That Makes Friend-Finding Fun

Every year at SXSW developers unleash new products upon the tech-crazy hyper-early adopters hoping their launch will stick. And every year there's one product that's the talk of Austin. Two years ago it was Twitter's debut, even ...READ»

Kathy Sierra's Guide to Making Breakthroughs Happen

Kathy Sierra's Guide to Making Breakthroughs Happen

Annual SXSW favorite Kathy Sierra, the author, game programmer and interaction designer for places like Virgin and MGM, knows how to get things done. (In 2007 her high profile also made her a victim of online threats; as a result ...READ»

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The Pan-Disciplinary Future of Creative Employment

Creatives today need to be "superpeople" who can write, be personable and--gasp!--talk finance as well. That's the takeaway from a panel of design professionals convened at SXSW by Coroflot, the design jobs site well-known ...READ»

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Alex Bogusky Wants You To Ride His B-Cycle

What better place for Alex "The Dude" Bogusky to debut his new bike-sharing program than before this standing room-only crowd in bike-sympathetic Austin? Well, he didn't think they'd let an ad guy talk about bike sharing ...READ»

Tony Hsieh

Zappos' Tony Hsieh on Twitter, Phone Calls and the Pursuit of Happiness

It's not about shoes, it's about customer service. At least that was the gist of Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh opening keynote at SXSW this year. Although the hoodie-wearing entrepreneur—#20 on the 2009 Fast Company 50—does sell about ...READ»

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