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Lap Dances at Yahoo's Hack Days? A Lesson in Monitoring a Global Brand

"Scantily clad gyrating women" who give lap dances to men on your company's dime can damage your brand within seconds. Who's in the hot seat today? Yahoo! It appears that Hack Days are quite a different experience in Taiwan ...READ»

Hot and Heavy CD Makin'

It seems like just yesterday when burning a CD could score big points with the ladies. These days, Philips is still helpin' a brother out -- but now it's with LED-powered, super-efficient $40 lightbulbs that last 25 years. The ...READ»

Infographic of the Day: Google's Acquisition Map

As Google shops around for new web acquisitions, a visual map of past conquests shows where the company's been before.READ»

Your Avatar & You

What does you avatar say about you?READ»

Sony PRS-300, PRS-600 E-Reader Details Leak Via Service Manuals [UPDATED]

Leaked service manuals for Sony's upcoming PRS-300 and PRS-600 e-reader devices have revealed the specs of the anticipated successors to the Sony PRS-700. Unfortunately, no pricing or release date information was included, but the ...READ»

Venture Capital Slows to a Trickle

It's well know that VC funds take their economic hits with a delay because they work in liquid money, but it seems like their time of reckoning for the great bust of '08 has finally come. VentureBeat reports that new data from the ...READ»

Data Visualization Borders on Art

Must See Data Viz - Eye Candy w/MeaningREAD»

Microsoft Brings Social Networking and 3-D Motion Capture to Xbox 360

The rumors proved true: Microsoft is bringing motion a capture device to the Xbox 360. The company also announced that Xbox Live will support social networking via Facebook, Twitter and Last.fm. Along with the usual flood of ...READ»

Tech Unemployment Bad, but Not That Bad

Earlier this month, hard drive maker Seagate became the latest tech firm to announce layoffs: 1100 cuts, or 2.5% of its workforce. But while unemployment in the technology sector accelerated in the first quarter of 2009, according ...READ»

Innovative Search Engine

Date: May 15, 2009 Hello, “MelZoo.com” launched on January 01, 2009, is the first flagship; potential of Multi Million-Billion Dollar Business, Factory of product & Services and they will be making it ...READ»

EU Punishment For US Companies

After  Microsoft and Intel who else would be the next candidate for being punished? Will the other US companies be targeted?  Will  it be Google? Just wondering.READ»

Women - The Ultimate Entrepreneurs

More than one-third of entrepreneurs in the United States are women, and the growth in the number of woman-owned firms is more than double the rate of all U.S. firms. Stay-at-home moms are multi-tasking more than ever. In between childcare, cooking and cleaning, they are cranking out inventions that are making them millions. In America, women start 424 new enterprises every day that’s more than twice as many as men. READ»

Next Generation Interaction: Are Virtual Worlds Waiting in the Wings?

About: This is the revised transcript of the Fast Company.com Call-In titled, Next Generation Interaction: Are Virtual Worlds Waiting in the Wings? that took place on November 2008. Portions of the dialogue have been re-written ...READ»

In Internet Democracy Not All Good Causes Are Apparently Equal

In Internet Democracy Not All Good Causes Are Apparently Equal     In Internet Democracy Not All Good Causes Are Apparently Equal By Donald Schwartz February 1, 2009                                 ...READ»

Obama's High-Tech Defenses: Bullet-Resistant Suit, Tank-Like Limo, and One Huge Gun

What kind of high-tech precautions were taken on inauguration day? Advanced ballistics fabrics, a truck-limo hybrid with bunker-like doors, and a trailing machine gun vehicle were among the latest defenses issued the President, in the ...READ»

A Daily Dose of Blogs for the Tech Entrepreneur

Rashmi Sinha, co-founder & CEO for SlideShare, doesn't have a lot of time to read a lot of blogs, but the following sites are the ones that she makes time for, because they help her with the day-to-day challenges of running a ...READ»

6 Sources of Inspiration for Tech Bloggers

Corvida Raven, author of the blog SheGeeks.net, made the Fast Company list of "The Most Influential Women In Technology: The Bloggers." Here, she shares her sources of inspiration. Sarah Perez - SarahinTampa - The most influential ...READ»

Beauty is Better Than Brains

When it comes to gadget-buying, looks are everything. What's wrong with us?READ»

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These pieces will make you the most aesthetically attuned gift giver around.READ»

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Marketer's Guide to Semantic Web: Solving Social Media Measurement

http://threeminds.organic.com/2008/10/solving_social_media_measurement.html It's one of the toughest marketing challenges of recent times... how do we measure the success of social media? I see countless posts everyday where ...READ»

Marketer's Guide to Semantic Web: Creating More Relevant Ads

http://threeminds.organic.com/2008/10/marketers_guide_to_semantic_we.html Has your contextual advertising turned into a contextual nightmare? Maybe you became the butt end of the joke for many blogs creating not the kind of buzz ...READ»

Quick intro

Greetings,  I just discovered Fastcompany and I would like to participate and contribute if I can. I am an author, inventor and product developer. I am intimately familiar with advanced technology and innovationand ...READ»

PerfSpot.com and OpenSocial: FriendVouch http://www.friendvouch.com

PerfSpot is launching new development - FriendVouch..With 25 million members on PerfSpot.com and 4 billion monthly ad impressions on our Spot200 network, PerfSpot.com is in prime position to launch our premier digital ad platform on ...READ»

IT Marketing Proven Tips on Building a Client List

If you are like a lot of other computer consultants, you might not understand how important having a solid IT marketing plan is to the future of your business. You might think that your friends, family, colleagues and others ...READ»

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I just joined this group and would like to introduce myself. My name is Joel Simpson, I am VP of Advanced Business Concepts, Inc., which is an IT consulting company located in MA and FL. I am also an Officer in the Army National ...READ»