Christina Norman told the audience at our Innovation Uncensored event last week how she was visibly unsure about joining OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network as its CEO. Even a star-powered, deeply funded network is a lot like a small startup, full of twists and turns. In the latest twist a week later, Norman herself has been let go. READ»
There’s letter art, and then there’s Bianca Chang’s letter art. Chang, an Australian designer, take entire reams of paper and hand-slices them, subtly altering her cuts with each page, to produce 3-D typographic paper sculptures ...READ»
Forget lying in a memoir, we should be talking about what it means that Mortenson's Central Asia Institutes in Pakistan and Afghanistan are failing.READ»
This year DonorsChoose.Org made our list of The Most Innovative Companies. We speak to CEO Charles Best on how he applies a "best of breed e-commerce" approach to transforming public education.READ»
Who would you to trade places with, if you could have any job in the world? Steve Jobs, Warren Buffet, and Barack Obama top a new survey on the world's most sought-after jobs.READ»
Londoner Chris Stevens, founder of creative iPad app design firm Atomic Antelope found the idea for Alice for iPad at the bottom of a pitch black rabbit hole. It was a little more than a year ago. He and his partner had trotted out a ...READ»
Ashton. Oprah.
Britney. Martha. The single-name celebrities in the offline world who have
parlayed their fame into huge followings online is no secret. But other
entertainers are using social media to amplify a Web following to ...READ»
At long last, Oprah fanatics (Foprahtics? Needs work.) can spend two bucks on an iPhone app that will provide Oprah-related entertainment even while away from a television or computer. The weirdest part: it's kind of...impressive.READ»
Stephen Colbert Goes Iraqi
Late night faux-newsman Stephen Colbert will be broadcasting four shows
from Baghdad, Iraq next week in a USO tour entitled, "Operation Iraqi
Stephen: Going Commando." Colbert is ...READ»
Some new data from Nielsen Online suggests that Twitter has a retention rate of just 40% after one month of usage--60% of users leave. This is despite Twitter's growth in user numbers, including its adoption by celebrities like ...READ»
Sure, you're sick of Twitter, Bush, and bad news about the economy. But this topics still gin up some entertaining news--so check out the related stories that bubbled to the top of the social Web this week. FastCompany.com's best of ...READ»
Oprah is now officially on Twitter.
The Chicago talk show host completed her first tweet just this morning, and is devoting a block of time in her broadcast today to discussing the microblogging site. "HI TWITTERS. THANK ...READ»
The new commander in chief's not-so-secret weapon proved her power yet again yesterday when Oprah sparked President Obama’s call to volunteerism by backing Starbucks’s new “I’m in” campaign. The initiative promises a free ...READ»
Oprah's Book Club has catapulted A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle into the one of the top slots of Best Sellers at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and the USA Today Best Seller List. Advocating her audience read the new non-fiction ...READ»
