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VoIP’s Success in 2009 and Beyond

At this time of year we’re all evaluating the current year’s results and planning how best to move forward in 2010. Overall IP communications growth has been very positive.  I’m sure that many of you have seen the ...READ»

Los Angeles Times

The Case for Conservative Web Site Design

Web design isn't about creativity alone. It depends crucially on reader expectations.READ»

VitorTwitter

The Design Mind Behind Twitter? He's 21.

Vitor Lourenco is responsible for creating the elegantly spare Twitter UI. At the ripe age of 21, he's got 7 years' experience and counting.READ»

Motorola

Motorola Envisions the Cellphone of the Future

Hyper futuristic cellphone concepts are usually the province of student competitions. But Motorola tasked designers from its offices around the world to create a visionary cellphone replacement, and here are the results. As ...READ»

SupremeCourt

The Supreme Court's Web Site Is Due for a Redesign

Have you ever visited the Supreme Court's Web site? Sure, it's simple enough, but the thing looks like it was last touched in 1995, by a Web designer working for Prodigy (remember them?). And the Supreme Court's staffers know ...READ»

AA

American Airlines Web Site: The Product of a Self-Defeating Design Process

Designer Dustin Curtis was so disgusted with the American Airlines Web site that he redesigned it, and posted the results as an open letter to the company. Guess what? One of AA's designers responded with a long ...READ»

RIM blackberry

Two Signs RIM is Revving Up Blackberry's Style

Blackberry, for all its success, suffers from one core problem: It's the boring corporate suit at the funky smartphone office party. Now two bits of news have popped up to suggest that RIM is trying to inject a bit of hipster design ...READ»

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CISCO JOB OPENINGS

System Administrator Location Thornton, Colorado Description Cisco is looking for a System Administrator with 1 to 5 years experience. The ideal candidate will have experience with Linux (redhat), Data Centers and server ...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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HTML Coding Question Re Posting to Blog

Hi: Have a simple HTML coding question regarding posting images to blogs. Does FC have a webmaster e-mail address? Thanks. Donald Schwartz    READ»

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Problems starting a group

I am having 3 probelms with trying to set up a group. 1) Even if I make it a private group ita ppears to be visible to everyone 2) How do you change the settings of a group, ie. change it from Private to Public, I can't ...READ»

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Images In Preview Mode But Not In Post

    Hi All Any idea “why” embedded images show in preview, but not in post? Suggested work-arounds welcome. For example, see my current post in Technology with text links to images.   Donald ...READ»

Dinosaurs

“Don’t worry things are great. Our revenues are at historic highs. Our client list contains the who’s who of the fortune 500. If we just buckle down and increase efficiencies, become the best at what we do and provide ...READ»

IE 6 problems with FastCo pages

Is anyone else experiencing problems with IE 6 taking a flyer when loading certain FastCo pages?  I have attached a file showing this for the Big Idea on today's post.  Quite annoying actually.READ»

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IE 6 problems with FastCo pages

Is anyone else experiencing problems with IE 6 taking a flyer when loading certain FastCo pages?  I have attached a file showing this for the Big Idea on today's post.  Quite annoying actually.READ»

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Move Beyond the Gestural Interface... Give Your Phone the Finger

Multi-touch, gestural interfaces are the new black. And for the next four to five years, they're the immediate future of our ever-evolving human/computer interactions. But for us designers, I'd like to project a little further into ...READ»

Innovation Engineer >> Fast 50 Nomination

"This Fast 50 2008 Application will be submitted for moderation and will not be accessible to other users until it has been approved." Submitted application approx 1 week before deadline. Approved? Unknown. No matter. But where ...READ»

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Accept contact invitation feature does not work using email link

I received an invitation today for a contact with the link: http://www.fastcompany.com/buddylist/nnnnn/buddies/requests, where nnnnn is the request number. Selecting the link instantiates the fastcompany page, but the link ...READ»

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cannot post to personal blog

I am unable to post anything at all to my personal blog (though I successfully created a group, a blog for that group, and posting to that blog). Whatever I type, today when I submit I get this message:       ! blog : This ...READ»

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You are not authorized to access this page...

"You are not authorized to access this page..." I get this reply every now and then when i try to post (this time to the Fast Talk...when will people want to watch full length video on a cell ...READ»

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Musings on th FC site

Where is the "Post Comment" button? How can I see/browse/search the member list of a group that I am part of? Think user and listening, not push and talk. Here's a story: I got the paper FC in the ...READ»

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History Lost

Hi, I had made some recommendations,added my netwrok and commented on a couple of Q & A.However when I logged in just now,I observed that all the data is lost. Ex:My profile views previously was 40+.Now its 1. Any ...READ»

How do you Delete a comment or Edit it?

I posted a comment on an article that I immediately wanted to edit. (Now, I would just like to delete it!) I can see it on my profile but I see no where to edit or delete it.  Could someone on staff please help me with ...READ»

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Site experience less than optimal so far

I don't know if my experience with the new FC beta site is uniquely problematic, or if others are having the same problems, but I'm finding it frustrating enough that I can't see myself engaging much - if at all - with the ...READ»

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FastTalk subjects locked

FastTalk topics are "access denied" if they are about 2 days or more old...so it  seems. I understand that you dont want old ones modified after a certain point,  but hopefully you make them ...READ»

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