Coca-Cola bet that an unknown Somali rapper could support its biggest marketing campaign ever. The company was right, and it may have launched a new star. Or not.READ»
It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. But emerging entrepreneurial hubs around the country are giving startup aspirants options. In this series, we talk to leading figures in ...READ»
Spare a thought for Gray Collins, as you ponder the prospect of all those work-related emails you've got to send: Collins is in the middle of a non-stop Twitterthon for charity. His tweet burden is one every 10 minutes, which doesn't ...READ»
Old school charity and "philanthropy" once referred exclusively to financial contributions to nonprofits. Today, Omidyar Network (ON) takes a more innovative and inclusive approach, called "flexible capital." As a philanthropic ...READ»
If you had the guts five years ago to bet on Google, then you would certainly have done well. But had you bet on WebMD, you would have done better. Since late 2005, while the Nasdaq index has netted little return for investors and ...READ»
Last month when our newest client SWAGG/Firethorn asked us to change the "vibe" in their office, I had to reach into my Hip Hop/B-Boy backpack and tap into the world of Graffiti as a solution for their needs. What our client wanted was an attitude change in the form of an art project.READ»
Long a symptom of urban decay, graffiti has been co-opted into
presidential campaigns, fashion, even dinnerware, yet no one has dared
promote it as a crucial factor for vibrant community building. Monica
Campana and Blacki Li Rudi ...READ»
The ever-expanding social ecommerce site partnered with Bravo’s Top Chef and helped distribute a documentary film executive produced by Pixar’s CTO. What’s next? $10 movie tickets?!READ»
We've seen a number of contactless credit card enterprises hitting the news recently, backed by big names and with slightly different notions about how the technology works. But the news that AT&T and Verizon are forming a joint venture to compete in this space totally transforms the market from a slightly boring, and long-term one, to a dynamic and exciting one. READ»
GE thinks it can find excess cash your organization didn't realize it had through the ecomagination Treasure Hunt program, which aims to uncover energy savings at companies, universities, and even entire cities.READ»
Listen in to any conversation on our energy future, and you'll hear about smart grids, solar cells, wind turbines, even energy from algae or from ocean waves. All of these are promising technologies, but we also have a technology that we can fully deploy right now--energy efficiency.READ»
Alex Bogusky tells us he's done with advertising for good. The big question for Crispin now is how well its 1,000 employees will do now that their old leader--a solo pop superstar--has been replaced by a big band. Let's meet the members of that band.READ»
Last Wednesday night, Joel Kotkin--a futurist and (sub)urban historian--squared off in a debate against Christopher Leinberger, a developer, consultant and proponent of "walkable urbanism." The topic: "America 2050: What Will We ...READ»
I have been thinking quite a bit about WordPress lately, because I'm preparing a speech about "The Business of Wordpress" to give at a conference by the same name in Atlanta next week. And in looking through my own blog and ...READ»
Is the mall dead? And if so, is it permanently dead? That question hung in the air on the last day of the annual Congress for the New Urbanism. "We have too much retail," said Francis Scire, a senior leasing executive at Simon ...READ»
Has the New Urbanism outlived its original purpose? The movement's charismatic founder, Andrés Duany, seems to think so. Last week's 18th annual Congress for the New Urbanism in Atlanta should have been an unalloyed triumph for Duany ...READ»
On the afternoon of July 6, 1999, Dr. Richard Jackson was summoned to the office of his boss, the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Jackson was then the head of the CDC's National Center for Environmental ...READ»
If you were in the market for an introduction to the New Urbanism -- what is it for? what is it against? what is it about, really? -- your choices on the opening day of the Congress of the New Urbanism (CNU 18) were either a ...READ»
