Topic: Saturday Night Live

The New Faces of Social Media

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»

Today in Most Innovative Companies

News of note from our Most Innovative Companies, including Hulu, PG&E, and Huawei.READ»

Who's Next: Osama Bedier

VP of platform, mobile, and new ventures, PayPalREAD»

• What's Next: Solar Flares
• Where's Next: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

The Secret to Funny or Die's Success: Celebrities, Product Placement, and Above All Else, Funny

Funny or Die CEO Dick Glover and creative director Andrew Steele reveal the innerworkings of the Web site and HBO show that may hold the key to the future of comedy.READ»

Hey, Baby, Look Who's the Most Innovative Ad Agency

A glimpse at Grey New York's indelible work for eTrade, the NFL, and even themselves.READ»

The Brief But Impactful History of YouTube

In five years, YouTube has completely reshaped the Internet, media, and political landscapes. On its birthday, here's a look back at its short but influential life.READ»

• Now February 2010
• Scorsese and DiCarpio's Movie Gold

Online Buddy Comedy by Jason Bateman, Will Arnett Could Make You URL

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»

Can Hulu Save Traditional TV?

Can Jason Kilar and his hit site Hulu save traditional TV from itself while remaking it for the future?READ»

• The Fast Company 50 - 2009: Hulu
• The Wild World of Web TV
• Cut the Cable: All-Time Top 10 TV Shows on Hulu

Intel Risks It All (Again)

How Sean Maloney and brand guru Deborah Conrad are helping Intel's first carpet-dweller CEO reengineer the company once known as Chipzilla -- and free the bong.READ»

• Intel Inside ... Everything
• Intel Everywhere
• Intel Then, Now, and Tomorrow

Cut Your Cable: Hulu's Top 10 TV Shows

1 Family Guy You can get the five most recent episodes and more than 300 clips of Seth MacFarlane's crude cartoon. Hulu's most-watched episode as of September: "Stew-roids." 2 The Office The show is also among NBC's ...READ»

• The Unlikely Mogul
• The Wild World of Web TV

Universal Merchant Services

Universal Merchant Services, Jason Moore Merchant Services, National Payment Processing, Jason Moore, Merchant ServicesREAD»

Method's People Against Dirty Campaign Reveals Naked Truth About Household Products

A new viral campaign by Droga5 urges people to support new legislation that would reveal the ingredients of cleaning products. And stars foul-mouthed soap bubbles.READ»

Funny Business

How comedians clarify brain-fuzzing statsREAD»

• The Gripping Statistic: How to Make Your Data Matter

iJango Idaho

Ijango Registration For nine weeks now, I've been meaning to write this column, but I kept getting distracted by stuff like the Keyboard Cat and Pretty Ricky's latest round of furniture-humping histrionics. And that's somewhat fitting, given that this column is about Cobra Starship, a band that has turned messing around on the Internet into an absolute art form. READ»

Can We Laugh at Obama?

As the nation transitions from the erratic, divisive Bush-era into the historically momentous presidency of Obama the rhetoritician, some journalists are declaring crisis mode on a flourishing art form: the political satire.READ»

Starbucks Offers Free Coffee to Voters

“If you care enough to vote, we care enough to give you a free cup of coffee.” So goes Starbucks' (NASDAQ: SBUX) advertisement depicting the coffee chain's contribution to the presidential election. “Simply vote, and ask ...READ»

Bail-out or Build-out – Part 2

As the Presidential race nears the finish line - - with the candidates and voters both gasping for air amidst the ubiquitous onslaught of commercials on everything from lawn signs to Saturday Night Live - - there are no shortages of ...READ»

The Untrammeled Power of General Knowledge

One of the magic keys to any successful career is knowledge. Knowledge about your industry is a given. I mean general knowledge. An idea of what is happening in the world. No matter who you are or what you do, you have to keep ...READ»

What I Learned During My Summer Vacation

June through August, when I was young, entailed family trips around the state. In September, when asked about my vacation, I would say brightly, "I visited Mexico, Paris and Lebanon," and then in a quieter voice, ...READ»

Who Will Be the Godfather of Web Video?

Well-funded, big-studio-backed comedy-video Web sites have taken more hits than they've made. Does anyone have a plan that's not a joke? READ»

• The 9 Most Humorous Websites
• Comedy Is Not Pretty
• So Bad We Forgot to Laugh

Fake Wall Street Journal Hits the Stands

A parody of the Wall Street Journal hit news stands early today, creating enough of a stir to get the real WSJ snapping up copies in at attempt to get them off the streets. Published every 26 years, this time the parody has ...READ»

Ning's Infinite Ambition

It isn't just a site where users can build their own social networks -- Ning is a model of how to create a perpetual growth machine.READ»

• 9 Social Networks That Aren't for Everyone
• Virtuous Circles

Work/Life: Did You Hear About The Guy Who Got Fired Over a Dilbert Cartoon?

  As the creator of a comic strip character myself, I have, in some very early blog postings, poked a little fun at Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert.  Well, those days are over.  As some of you may know, Adams has been bravely ...READ»

An Authenticity Timeline

From Disney's opening of Main Street USA in 1955 to user-generated content, here's a look at how authenticity has evolved over time.READ»

Featured in the April Issue of Fast Company Magazine

The New Face of Al Jazeera, Page 42, by Linda Tischler With its often strident anti-American rhetoric and penchant for showing al Qaeda-produced hostage tapes, the Arabic news channel al Jazeera is seen by many Americans as little ...READ»