Topic: Santa Barbara

Meet the Big Brother Screening Your Social Media for Employers

Companies are hiring professional social media screeners to scan your Twitter and Facebook pages. Will they get you hired or fired?READ»

Glam: the Next Media Giant?

Glam Media CEO and Founder Samir Arora talks about cutting his own salary, building an ad network to rival Google, and why women rule.READ»

Social Networking Affects Brains Like Falling in Love

Neuroeconomist Paul Zak has discovered, for the first time, that social networking triggers the release of the generosity-trust chemical in our brains. And that should be a wake-up call for every company.READ»

• Inside the Penenberg Brain
• Hot Topic

CEOs: BP Spill Has Had Little Impact on Green Market

"The government's policy on energy in the United States is the most stupid, idiotic, inconsistent, crazy policy you could imagine," said Michael Garland, CEO of wind-powerhouse Pattern Energy Group. Garland spoke at the Renewable ...READ»

Macro Trends: America’s New Chapter

The stock market has rallied since March 2009 on cheap money and undervaluation; the former is unsustainable and the latter no longer the case.READ»

A Teachable Moment

The Cost of the Oil SpillREAD»

The Art of Life

The Colts Neck home of Howard and Frances Schoor does not merely look as if it. was built for art—it was. Known locally as “the place with the dinosaur,” the California Contemporary house was designed by Santa Barbara California ...READ»

Twitter's Investors Missed the Cluetrain - Here's Why

Twitter, the microblogging service that changed everything, hasn't changed all that much argue the four co-authors of The Cluetrain ManifestoREAD»

California Software Maker Says Chinese 'Green Dam' Filtering Software Is Pirated

China's mandate that all PCs sold in that country must be shipped with state-approved filtering software has met more opposition, but this time it's not from human rights groups or American PC-makers. A California-based software ...READ»

The Doctor of the Future

Cost, access, quality -- the prognosis for American health care may look grim, but innovation is the cure. The medicine of tomorrow is being born today.READ»

• Why Electronic Health Records Are Worth the Hype--and the Price
• Myca and Hello Health Preview Their Facebook-like Medical Platform
• Healing Yourself Via YouTube: The Amazing and Frightening Future of Health Care

The Top 10 Eco-Friendly Hotels

The greenest vacation is a day hike in your backyard. But if you need to get a little further away from home, there are plenty of responsible--dare we say, trendy--resorts to choose from. Online travel community TripAdvisor ...READ»

When Eight Figures Simply Won't Do

Three of law firm Quinn Emanuel's biggest wins.READ»

• Caffeinated, Aggressive & Brash, Esq.

FastCompany's July/August 2008 Calendar

What's happening in July and August, from the G8 get-together to Bill Gates's last day on the job.READ»

• Convene: Donkeys & Elephants
• Numerology: Hot Dog!

Feedback

Motorhead Madness November's cover story had Fast Company readers revved up. We received a flood of responses, ranging from disbelief ("There are a ton of unsubstantiated claims in this article") to wild enthusiasm ("Johnathan ...READ»

Athena, CEO

Meet nine of the more than eight million women entrepreneurs who are beginning to reshape American business.READ»

Hire This Guy

In the fast-changing world of corporate sustainability, environmental consultants are the new management gurus. And Mike Brown is the master.READ»

Feedback

Letters. Updates. Advice.READ»

5 Years of Who's Fast

Who's Fast 2003 marks our fifth-annual celebration of the unsung heroes and rising stars of business. As a group, they represent a new generation of leaders who blend integrity and imagination, brains and guts. What follows is a roster of Who's Fast profiles from prior years (titles and company affiliations reflect each person's status at the time of their selection).READ»

The Medium is the Massage

Our intrepid traveler seeks answers to the eternal questions: Are spas overrun by rich matrons? What's the deal with New Age music? And why am I buck naked in front of total strangers?READ»

Andy Brown Wants You!

As one of the most successful recruiters for the U.S. Marine Corps, Master Gunnery Sergeant Andy Brown is a master strategist in the battle for talent. Here's how you can hire the few and the proud.READ»

In Search of the New World (of Work)

Three companies -- pioneers in vastly different industries, each founded on a compelling competitive force -- point the way to success in the new economy.READ»

The Conference-Commando Field Manual

It smells like learning! Don't think of your next conference as a company-sponsored vacation. Think of it as an assault on the future. A collection of battle-scarred veterans offer their secrets on how to become a conference commando. We register at dawn!READ»

innovation - Joyce Wycoff

"If you can create an organization that innovates, then you can make the organization a better place to work."READ»

The Talent Market

If you think that the stock market is where the action is today, you're missing out on the hottest, most important market in the new economy.READ»

The Best Things in Life Are Free

We want to make a lot of dough. We've got a hot product - How should we go? You want to make big dough, you say? Take our advice: Give it away!READ»