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David Zax blogs for Fast Company, though that much you probably already knew.

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Fast Talk: How Truthy Maps Influence On Twitter Meet Fil Menczer, the Twitterologist behind the political meme-analyzing site, Truthy. Yes, the name was inspired by Stephen Colbert. Updated Thu Feb 23, 2012
Fast Talk: How Warby Parker's Cofounders Disrupted The Eyewear Industry And Stayed Friends Meet Neil Blumenthal, cofounder and co-CEO of Warby Parker. He tells Fast Company how a pact over a beer at the company's inception helped its founders preserve their friendship. Updated Wed Feb 22, 2012
Fast Talk: How PopVox Gets Congress To Listen Meet Marci Harris, who wants to fix your broken line of communication to Congress. Updated Fri Feb 17, 2012
Fast Talk: Why Fashion Designers Need To Embrace Their Inner Geek Meet Jean Paul Cauvin, a French fashion veteran and self-proclaimed non-geek who nonetheless saw the need to follow fashion's technological future. Updated Thu Feb 16, 2012
Fast Talk: With Meeteor, Facebook-Stalk For The Job You Want Meet Chris Lee, cofounder of Meeteor, which leverages Facebook as a networking tool. Here's how to access "the network you may not even know you have." Updated Tue Feb 14, 2012
Fast Talk: How A Brooklyn Clothing Label Fights "Fast Fashion" Meet David Gensler, whose Brooklyn clothing company Serum Versus Venom advocates a return to craft. Read on to learn about the value of a well-made belt, what would've happened if Picasso had tweeted, and how Jay-Z could be the next Oprah. Updated Mon Feb 13, 2012
Fast Talk: How This Bartender Is Rebooting The Condom Meet Richard Pessall, a 20-year-old British entrepreneur who wants to take the condom where no man has gone before (no, not space). Updated Thu Feb 9, 2012
Fast Talk: How FoundersCard Brings Exclusivity To The Startup Set Meet Eric Kuhn, who has one of the few startups in America that isn't rushing to gain millions of users. Updated Tue Feb 7, 2012
Fast Talk: How GrubWithUs Scales Intimacy Meet Sen Sugano, Director of Business Development at the dinner-with-strangers startup. Updated Tue Feb 7, 2012
Fast Talk: How A Former Google Exec Plans To Transform Loans Meet Douglas Merrill, Google's former Chief Information Officer, whose loan-giving startup ZestCash makes FICO scores seem straight outta the Stone Age. "All data is credit data," he says--and the insight is helping America's "underbanked" legions. Updated Fri Feb 3, 2012
Fast Talk: How This Tattoo Artist Became A Tech Entrepreneur Meet Fred Giovannitti, whose ability to tease designs out of people's brains proves useful in two very different pursuits: tattoo artistry and environmental engineering. Updated Tue Jan 31, 2012
Fast Talk: How This 17-Year-Old's Breakup Inspired His Startup Meet Michael Moore-Jones, ambitious entrepreneur, nostalgic ex-boyfriend, teenager. Updated Tue Jan 31, 2012
Zooey Deschanel, Internet Entrepreneur Digital Broadcasting Group joins forces with HelloGiggles for an original web series. Updated Fri Jan 20, 2012
Some Mobbing Behavior Of Birds With Your Popcorn? Rebranding Science At The Movies Want to hear a Harvard professor hold forth on the neuropsychology of zombies? Then attend an event at the newly expanded "Science on Screen" series, where films are followed by scientific discourse. Updated Thu Jan 19, 2012
Email: Undead, Now Mutating So says Fiesta.cc CEO Michael Dirolf, who is trying to revamp that least sexy of communications tools: the listserv. Updated Thu Jan 19, 2012
A Lost And Found For The Internet Some startup ideas are long overdue. Found in Town is one of them. Updated Tue Jan 17, 2012
Football Fans Vote Republican: Hardcore Data Miners Track "Neo Tribes" With "Micro-Targeting" Aristotle delivers valuable (and detailed!) data to candidates about potential supporters. In fact, don't be surprised if the candidates know more about you than you do about them. Updated Wed Jan 11, 2012
PolicyMic Wants Millennials To Play Nicer, Be More Informed In Online Political Debates (Don't Laugh) As the election season heats up, grads from Harvard and Stanford aim to bring civil political conversation through gamification. Updated Wed Jan 11, 2012
Facebook Puts Friends In A Benz Soon, you'll be able to use Facebook in your Mercedes-Benz. (You roll in a Benzo, right?) Is Facebook suffering from "mission creep"? Updated Tue Jan 10, 2012
Where BuzzFeed Is Trending (With $15.5 Million In Help) A month after its hire of Politico's Ben Smith, BuzzFeed raises $15.5 million in Series C financing. How has the site changed over the past month? Updated Mon Jan 9, 2012

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