Nominations for the Most Influential Women in Tech 2011 Close on Friday Just in case you missed our call for the Most Influential Women in Technology, this week is the last chance to get your nominations in. We're looking for the best and brightest in technology -- the media stars, the gamers, the developers, the activists, the entrepreneurs, the executives, the evangelists, the brainiacs, and more. We've already had overwhelming feedback on our site, on Twitter, and on blogs, and now we're putting out the last call so that we can start readying the final list.
Updated Tue Dec 7, 2010
Help Fast Company Find the Most Influential Women In Tech 2011 Two years ago, Fast Company compiled a list of the Most Influential Women In Tech, in part to recognize the disadvantages that women in technology face--proper recognition being just one of them. We continued in 2010 with a second list, and now we're readying a third.
Sat Nov 13, 2010
First Peek: Brammo's Faster, Longer-Riding Electric Empulse Goes 100 Miles
When we test drove the Brammo Enertia and the Zero S last year, we learned three valuable lessons about electric motorcycles: 1. They don't go very fast (50 - 60 mph was top speed) 2.
Thu Jul 15, 2010
Fast Company's Most Innovative Marketing Expert Blogs, Part II Marketing has changed. We're in the age of one-to-one marketing, where the customer actually has a role in shaping the messaging for your brand. Social Media--blogs, Twitter, Facebook, wikis, user-generated tools--have given her all she needs to effect whether your products and services do well in the marketplace. Long gone are the 4Ps of marketing, these are the days of the 4Cs, a customer centric approach that includes the customer's wants and needs; the cost to satisfy the customer; the convenience; and communication.
Posted Sun Sep 13, 2009
Sorry Jay-Z Auto Tune Isn't Dead, T-Pain Has an iPhone App to Spread It to the Masses Jay-Z may have declared the "Death of Autotune," but T-Pain, the King of Auto Tune, strikes back with a new iPhone app that helps anyone sing like him.
In the video below, see artists like Keri Hilson, Soulja Boy, and Akon using the "I Am T-Pain" app to help them sound like him.
Posted Fri Sep 4, 2009
Five Incredibly Entertaining Niche Social Networks Social networking has completely tangled itself into the fabric of our daily lives, and though Facebook is still de rigueur, people with specific interests and advertisers who want to reach those people are becoming more the norm. For an advertiser, niche networks are like targeting campaigns by demographics.
Posted Wed Sep 2, 2009
Can Science Possibly Be Cool? Last night in New York, at a TV launch party for Popular Science's "Future Of..." Debbie Myers, Science Channel general manager asked what was missing from science programming.
Posted Tue Aug 11, 2009
Fast Company's Most Innovative Marketing Expert Blogs Marketing has changed. We're in the age of one-to-one marketing, where the customer actually has a role in shaping the messaging for your brand. Social Media--blogs, Twitter, Facebook, wikis, user-generated tools--have given her all she needs to effect whether your products and services do well in the marketplace. Long gone are the 4Ps of marketing, these are the days of the 4Cs, a customer centric approach that includes the customer's wants and needs; the cost to satisfy the customer; the convenience; and communication.
Posted Fri Aug 7, 2009
Mariah Carey's Imperfect Angel: The CD That Thinks It's a Magazine As it moves further away from anything that even remotely resembles the music business, it's beginning to look like the music industry is in deeper doo doo than we ever thought.
Posted Mon Aug 3, 2009
Electric Motorcycle Competition Revs Up: Zero S Streets Alongside Brammo Enertia Just last week, we reported that the Brammo Enertia officially went on sale at a Best Buy store in Portland, but the Zero S Electric Motorcycle--also for urban commuters--wasn't going to be left out. The electric street bike is officially available as well. We took it for a quasi test drive.
Posted Mon Jul 13, 2009
Fingerbeat: Turn your iPhone/iTouch Into a Beat Machine Fingerbeat, a new iPhone/iTouch app, puts the power of a recording studio in the palm of your hand.
Posted Sun Jul 12, 2009
Visions of Shaun White's Fall '09 Line for Target A peek into the designs for the second season of Shaun White's clothing line for Target.
Posted Sat Jun 13, 2009
Beyond Human: Kanye West's Complex Cover Pushes Design and CGI Limits [video] In this video, videographer and photographer Chris Milk discusses the process behind Complex magazine's futuristic April/May cover photo shoot, using CGI, with Kanye West. It's pretty amazing.
Posted Mon Mar 23, 2009
In Only One Year, Hulu Becomes Fourth Largest Video Site in U.S.
Brains! That must be the secret to Hulu rocketing up to being the fourth largest video site in the U.S. in February, right? That's what Alec Baldwin told us in this creative Super Bowl ad, which may also have had something to do with the video site's healthy traffic bump last month.
Posted Mon Mar 23, 2009
Sneaker Con 2009: Deep Inside Kicks Culture
They came out in droves--all 1000-plus of them. They were men, women, boys, and girls. They came from all five boroughs, and some from afar, from the stretches of Westchester, Long Island, and even New Jersey. They formed a queue, one so long that it wrapped around like a Python from the front door of The Times Square Arts Center on Eighth Avenue curving through 42nd Street.
Posted Mon Mar 2, 2009
Should Art Be Outlawed if It's Remixed, Mashed-Up, or Sampled? If you visit YouTube often enough, you might end up watching Superman or Simba from the Lion King singing, "Crank That," a song made popular on YouTube by the rapper Soulja Boy for its accompanying dance and various user-generated videos that reinterpreted the artist's original. Or you may catch a view of one of the many remixes and spoofs of Beyonce's, "SIngle Ladies," that in and of itself is a remix of Gwen Verdon's "Mexican Breakfast," choreographed by Bob Fosse.
Posted Sat Feb 28, 2009
Android Meetup With Jamie Wells, Omnicom Media and Bradley Horowitz, VP Products, Google [video]
This month's New York Android Meetup, held at the Fast Company office, and hosted in conjunction with Medialets, featured guest speaker Jamie Wells, lead mobile director for Omnicom Media Digital. Along with the usual 30 or so developer attendees, the month special guest, Bradley Horowitz, VP Products, Google also showed up.
Posted Tue Feb 24, 2009
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