With A $12M Cash Infusion, Bluefin Labs Heads Into The Eye Of Social Media Storms The social media analytics company Bluefin Labs figures out what people are saying about TV on social media--now they'll try to figure out why they're saying it.
Updated Thu Jan 26, 2012
Jim Rekoske From Honeywell On Developing Biofuels In this extended version of the talk from our latest issue, we speak with Jim Rekoske, VP for renewable energy and chemicals for Honeywell--which licenses its biofuel technology to refineries.
Updated Tue Dec 27, 2011
How Virent Is Using Plants To Replace Oil In this extended version of the talk from our latest issue, we speak with Mary Tilton, VP of plant operations at Virent, which is using chemistry to turn plants into fuel.
Updated Thu Dec 15, 2011
United Continental's Jimmy Samartzis Seeks A Future With Biofuel In this extended version of the talk from our latest issue, we speak with Jimmy Samartzis, managing director of environmental affairs and sustainability at United Continental about testing biofuels and partnering with biofuel producers.
Updated Tue Dec 6, 2011
Blake Simmons On Creating Fuel From Plants In this extended version of the talk from our new issue, we speak with Blake Simmons, the VP for deconstruction at the Department of Energy's Joint Bioenergy Institute about competing with the fossil fuel industries, balancing needs for food and fuel, and becoming the Radio Shack of bioenergy.
Updated Tue Nov 29, 2011
Venture Capitalist Marianne Wu On Why Now Is The Right Time For Biofuels In this extended version of the talk from our new issue, we speak with Marianne Wu, a partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures. "A lot of people assume that green biofuels mean higher prices or worse performance," Wu says. "That's changing."
Updated Mon Nov 28, 2011
LinkedIn Editorial Director Dan Roth Taps Users To Streamline Content Media companies aren't the only ones in the content-providing business these days. Meet Dan Roth, the executive editor of LinkedIn.
Updated Thu Nov 17, 2011
Novelist Consuelo Saah Baehr On Why The Amazon Kindle Is The New Printing Press Media companies aren't the only ones in the content-providing business these days. Meet Consuelo Saah Baehr, a novelist who plays by her own rules.
Updated Thu Nov 17, 2011
Virgin's "Project" Magazine Editor Anthony Noguera Takes Content Users On A Journey Media companies aren't the only ones in the content-providing business these days. Meet Anthony Noguera, editorial director of Virgin's tablet magazine, "Project."
Updated Thu Nov 17, 2011
eBay Fashion's Andrea Linett On Creating Fashion-Forward Original Content Media companies aren't the only ones in the content-providing business these days. Meet Andrea Linett, eBay Fashion's creative director.
Updated Thu Nov 17, 2011
Web Production Gurus Diane Charles And Ron Qurashi On Lisa Kudrow And Lexus Media companies aren't the only ones in the content-providing business these days. Meet Diane Charles and Ron Qurashi, producers of Lexus's Web Therapy series starring Lisa Kudrow.
Updated Thu Nov 17, 2011
Fast Company's United States of Design Cover Art Challenge We asked three hall-of-fame graphic artists, and one cult "commix" artist, to create cover art inspired by the issue's theme, "The United States of Design." The results drew inspiration from Ellis Island to American Cowboys.
Updated Thu Nov 17, 2011
Modern Alarm Clocks That Aren't Your Smartphone As smartphones take over the world, alarm clocks are fading into the well-rested past. We now wake up to ringtones rather than the clatter of a metal hammer. Turn back time and add a bit of ease to your mornings with the alarm clocks of your dreams.
Updated Wed Nov 9, 2011
Email Everywhere: 25th Anniversary Of Listserv To join an email list before 1986, users had to wait for someone to painstakingly adjust the code to include them. For Eric Thomas, that was too uncomputerized for a computerized system.
Updated Tue Aug 2, 2011
America's Railroads Are Still A Century Behind The U.S. trails behind other nations when it comes to bringing high-speed rail to the masses.
Updated Tue Aug 2, 2011
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Updated Wed Jun 29, 2011
Jason Liebman on Creating a Space for Digital Activists An Al Qaeda how-to guide spurred Jason Liebman to create an alternate manual for digital do gooders.
Updated Wed Jun 29, 2011
Josh Nesbit On The Power Of Mobile Phones In Haiti Mobile phones have become the common denominator in third-world countries--and a great way to provide better health care services there.
Updated Wed Jun 29, 2011
Adriana Lucia Suarez Grajales on Using Text Messages to Solve Conflicts in Columbia Conflict resolution via text messaging? It may help bring peace to marginalized Columbia communities.
Updated Wed Jun 29, 2011
Manuela Veloso On Robot Companions Veloso, a professor of computer science and member of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, is turning robots from joystick-operated poles on wheels into "CoBots" -- intelligent companions that can navigate and move.
Updated Wed Jun 29, 2011
