Is the White House more of a museum than a working office? Does it even have WiFi? MSNBC has reported that on their first day on the job, Obama's White House staffers suffered from downgrades on every front. During the campaign and ...READ»
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»
Social networks are about maintaining friendships and fostering new ones, but some of the apps made for them seem bent on doing the opposite. Here are 7 anti-social Facebook apps, and why you might want them anyway.READ»
Yes it's true, 20% of the work earns 80% of the results. The reason to always complete the 80% of work that only earns 20% of the results, is because of something called “TheCorner.”
When you complete the work that others will ...READ»
Family is at the core of community, so in order to
build strong communities we need to look for new ways to develop strong family bonds by using modern web-based tools.READ»
Call it the end of the dot-com world. Next year ICANN, the non-profit that oversees domain name and IP address registration, will start taking applications for new domain name suffixes, creating the potential for billions of new ...READ»
A survey released by Intel [INTC] on Monday says that more people would be willing to give up sex than be without Internet access. It's interesting, but it's just not true.
News outlets from CNN to The Australian have been reporting ...READ»
Classifieds site Oodle announced today that it will re-invent the Facebook Marketplace as a “social” market in which users can buy and sell with friends and community members. The new Oodle-powered classifieds are slated to launch ...READ»
On today's Internet, algorithms rule. But a handful of startups are using large-scale human participation to offer online services that computers alone can't deliver. Can human judgment scale with the Web?READ»
Reports that Obama plans to bring the President’s weekly “fireside chat” into the new century surfaced this weekend. The president elect plans to not just offer the chats on the radio, but on YouTube as well.READ»
As President-Elect Barack Obama gave his victory speech, there was a particularly powerful moment for me. "A world was connected by our own science and imagination." With those words, he made plain that the days of politicians seeing the Internet as simply "a series of tubes" are over.READ»
MTV launches a new online property focused on ... music videos! It's been a long time coming, but now users can look through more than 27,000 videos from MTV's archive, including live performances and vintage stock.READ»
With the current economic situation resulting in mass layoffs by some companies, there will be a large influx of qualified people entering the job market. For recruiters and HR personal alike, this comes as a blessing in disguise. ...READ»
With the financial meltdown yet to be resolved, a slowing economy and VCs backing away from Web 2.0 start-ups, many people assume that now is the worst time to launch a start-up. Yet, now is precisely the best time to launch a tech ...READ»
The latest search numbers were recently released and it appears that for the month of August once again Microsoft and Yahoo lost market share to Google. What’s worse is that not only are they losing market share in a growing ...READ»
Having worked in the financial sector before moving out west to start-up land, I have been asked several times over the past few days about the impact the financial meltdown will have on high tech.
At first, people may think ...READ»
Your personal information is online and getting more accessible every day. So how can you manage your online reputation and privacy in this cyber world where walls don't exist?
Here are five ways in which Internet users can ensure ...READ»
A few months ago I did a piece for FastCompany.com called LinkedIn Meets eBay, about a web startup that allowed salespeople to sell each other their contacts. If the sales world already had its eBay, it now has its iTunes: a place ...READ»
The phrase death rattle is not a pleasant one, however, it may describe the current state of print advertising, specifically, as it relates to real estate. Print advertising has been the main venue of real estate advertising for ...READ»
Plenty of companies spend extra money to try to squeeze more productivity out of their employees; FastCompany, for example, keeps their employees stocked with coffee, soda, snacks and comfortable seating areas as amenities. The ...READ»
Last night, PepCom held its Digital Experience! event in New York's Chelsea neighborhood, bringing together a few dozen of the tech industry's movers and shakers in a well-catered, safari-themed expo. So what looked good? The salmon ...READ»
I don't normally consider myself a road warrior, but when my 92-year-old grandmother suggested I get an air miles card, I began to reevaluate. She's right -- I've been out of town almost every week for the last several months, ...READ»
In spite of the unrelenting rain (and the fact that it was post lunch), Mediabistro Circus’s video seminar featuring Jim Louderback, CEO, Revision3; Robert Scoble, Managing Director, FastCompany.TV; and Dina Kaplan, Co-founder and ...READ»
