From YouTube celebrities to chief social-media officers, these unexpected players exert outsize impact and power online -- offering new channels of communication that businesses can't afford to ignore.READ»
HP Labs reveals the most and least influential users on Twitter. Turns out Martha Stewart's two million followers aren't nearly as proactive as she is. READ»
Flipboard, like Pulse before it, looks to take advantage of the iPad's power and size to show certain information in a new and fun way. This time, it's Facebook and Twitter feeds.READ»
Guy Kawasaki is the co-founder of the news aggregator Alltop.com, the former chief evangelist for Apple, and author of, among other titles, The Art of the Start. At the end of The Influence Project’s first week, Kawasaki sits ...READ»
My grandfather used to paint. He wasn't particularly good at it, but he found it calming. He would also make collages with found objects. I look at his work sometimes and try to figure out the stories he was trying to tell (he's been ...READ»
Stephen Fry's business partner details the creation of the new FryPad iPad app, and the upcoming launch of their online talent agency, Untied Artists.READ»
The Internet is turning lots of nobodies into celebrities. The trouble is, they get all the downside of being famous--people harass them online--and none of the upside, like getting a better table at a fancy restaurant. Founders ...READ»
[video_twistage 1]Why did Friendster and MySpace fail where Facebook found phenomenal success? It's not that the site was better marketed, designed or had fancier code, according to Sean Parker, the former president of Facebook and ...READ»
Data analytics firm Infochimps has released a tool that's both amusing for the casual Twitterer and useful for professionals--it's roughly the equivalent of Google's PageRank tech for tweets, and calculates how influential a ...READ»
Radio-and-TV personality Adam Carolla stumbled into podcasting and immediately became its No. 1 star. Now he's launching his own broadcasting network. Inside the messy birth of a new medium.READ»
No joke: this is your last chance to get a ticket to attend Fast Company's Innovation Uncensored conference on April 21.Who will be there? Along with the editors and writers from this magazine (which is being honored as a finalist ...READ»
Cisco's big announcement recently about how its new product was going to change the Internet for the better got the tech community very excited--not to mention the financial world, as the company's share price rose to a 52-week high. ...READ»
Cast your minds back to 2008. As well as the traditional settings of TV, radio and print, the race for the White House saw a new battleground: that of social media. The presidential campaign of Barack Obama used Twitter, YouTube, ...READ»
The Future of All Media?
The language and energy of Ashton Kutcher's Katalyst are right, but the goals seem fuzzy ("Want a Piece of This?"). Perhaps the best news is that Pepsi's top guns see that less control of the brand means ...READ»
We've just added four new speakers to the lineup for Fast Company's Innovation Uncensored conference on April 21:
Ashton Kutcher, Actor and Co-Founder, Katalyst
Matt Kistler, SVP of Sustainability, Walmart
Anne Globe, Head of ...READ»
According to Harvard Business School, “the median number of lifetime
tweets per user is one.” Bill Heil, study co-author, says “it looks like a few
people are creating content for a few people.” All the undue twitter ...READ»
Jason Bateman and Will Arnett are selling out-- if you can call it that anymore. The duo just announced a partnership with Ben Silverman to form a digital production company to produce shorts and commercials.READ»
Lady GaGa already has five #1 singles, two #1 albums, a brand-new comic book deal, and the most talked-about wardrobe (mal)functions this side of the Superbowl XXXVIII halftime show. But what she really wants to do is design.Taking a ...READ»
