As a marketing person, and teaching marketing all the time, you know what I'm supposed to tell you. Your marketing materials have got to look perfect. You have to have them spell check. You only have one chance at a first impression. ...READ»
’ve recently been privy to a number
of discussions about whether big launch events are “worth it”
(time, money, human capital) for a young tech company. The focus of some
of these discussions has been the twenty-year-old ...READ»
Everywhere you look at the South by Southwest conference this week, you see QR codes. The square "quick response" codes turn URLs, vCards, or any kind of text into a jumble of pixels that you can scan onto your smartphone ...READ»
This is the start of FastCompany.TV and here Robert Scoble, Managing Director, welcomes you and explains what's coming up. Some things that are coming soon? Tour of Microsoft Research's new building, more interviews with MySpace ...READ»
Co-hosts Robert Scoble and Shel Israel interview PARC president and Center
Director Mark Bernstein who has been at PARC where Ethernet, the GUI, MS
Word and so much more was first developed since 1970. As WorkFast's first
guest, he ...READ»
David Allen, author of "Getting Things Done, " one of the best-selling productivity books of all times joins Robert Scoble to talk about the future of work and how to make the most of productivity while minimizing stress. Allen also ...READ»
Every year stars from the social media universe (blogging, podcasting, online video, etc.) get together in Vegas for Blogworld. But is it right for you?READ»
It's not how you think. A Boston research group called the Web Ecology Project has analyzed 12 of the service's most popular users over the course of a 10-day period, in order to understand how influence works on Twitter. The result ...READ»
WordPress just added a new feature called RSSCloud--and as unassuming as that sounds, it's going to have a potent effect on every WordPress blog: They're all going to get a little injection of real-time update action.
The blogging ...READ»
Seemingly moments after the first "real" augmented reality app hit Apple's iTunes App Store, more have arrived. One is a London version similar to that first Parist Metro app, and another is from Yelp, the customer-driven business ...READ»
How can a self-proclaimed geeky company with no knowledge of public relations go from virtual anonymity to media darling with just one tweet?
This is the story of how social media is changing how companies make news and how the new ...READ»
Google's Chrome OS is either neat or irrelevant, depending on how you think--but the timing is undeniably interesting. It's more than a year away, so why'd Google go to press now? One theory is to beat Microsoft.
This idea's being ...READ»
Everyone asks me, "Now that I'm getting a better idea of what social media is, How do I actually apply it? Where do I start?" Start with these, The Five P's of Social Media. The Five P's are; Profiles, Propagate, Produce, ...READ»
I’ve been thinking about the recent announcement that Robert Scoble is joining Rackspace to run building 43, a place for people fanatical about the Internet. If you’re not familiar with the name, Rackspace is the hosting company ...READ»
On February 3, the Indian government will unveil a $10 educational laptop intended to bring computing to the masses, reports the Times of India. By comparison, a computer-shaped cake pan is $20 plus shipping in the U.S. Will the $10 ...READ»
ClearContext is a software company that makes email more useful. Here founder and CEO, Deva Hazarika, talks to Robert Scoble about why email is so hated inside corporations and how people can dramatically make it easier to deal ...READ»
Building a server environment that’s scalable and reliable can be tough, especially when your traffic goes "nuts" virtually overnight. Fast Company Live presents a special one-hour live webinar, moderated by Robert Scoble and featuring a panel of tech leaders from companies big to small who are facing these very issues.READ»
As I continue develop and build PitchEngine, more and more PR and internet marketing experts reach out to offer insight and sometimes even functionality to our web app. In a few short months I've discovered there is a lot more to ...READ»
The space between media and public relations is filled with gray, but we're learning very quickly that the more things change, the smaller that space becomes. Already, each of us has experienced profound change in our industry. I say ...READ»
The space between media and public relations is filled with gray, but we're learning very quickly that the more things change, the smaller that space becomes. Already, each of us has experienced profound change in our industry. I say ...READ»
Marketers are confused these days. The things that have worked for decades aren’t working anymore. Can you imagine if you worked for 30 years in your given vocation and then, almost over night, all the rules changed?
In ...READ»
