Infographic: Who Is Occupy Wall Street? Visualizing the results of 5,006 completed surveys at occupywallst.org, data shared exclusively with Fast Company.
Updated Tue Jan 17, 2012
Tim Pool And Henry Ferry: The Men Behind Occupy Wall Street's Live Stream The best ground view of Occupy Wall Street comes from a former skateboard videographer and a one-time Realtor, aka Tim Pool and Henry Ferry of The Other 99. With little more than mobile phones they've offered a perspective that the mainstream media can't match. Here's how.
Updated Tue Nov 22, 2011
Occupy Wall Street Moved Out Of Zuccotti A Long Time Ago Today was perhaps the most emotional day in the two-month-old Occupy Wall Street movement. Coming shortly after dramatic park clearings in cities such as Oakland (for the second time) and Portland, the epicenter of the movement, Zuccotti Park in Manhattan, was trashed, hosed, and disinfected starting about 1 a.m. Tuesday.
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Updated Tue Nov 15, 2011
One Tent-Dwelling Wall Street Occupier's Quest For Something Concrete Student debt reformer Alan Collinge has brought a clear set of demands--and little patience for general assembly dickering--to Occupy Wall Street. He belongs to a large--but not unified--contingent of pragmatic policy wonks in the movement.
Updated Thu Nov 3, 2011
Will The Real 99% Please Stand Up? Occupy Wall Street is meant to be a leaderless movement. But that hasn't stopped some people from trying to identify leaders. And some activists charge that organizations are trying to co-opt their message. How can a phenomenon with no central authority exercise authority over its brand?
Updated Fri Oct 21, 2011
The Demographics Of Occupy Wall Street Students are a big contingent at Zuccotti Park and other occupations. But a new study shows that online support crosses age, income and political boundaries. Look out for the rich, nonpartisan mobs.
Updated Fri Oct 21, 2011
The Inside Story Of Occupy Wall Street Frustration, doubt, chaos, and failures dominated the early days of Occupy Wall Street. So how has it lasted so long, grown, and spread around the country? Fast Company reporter Sean Captain was at the occupation from day one and looks back on a series of moments that made the movement feel different than any other action he'd covered or participated in before.
Updated Thu Oct 20, 2011
The Real Role Of Anonymous In Occupy Wall Street So far, the hacker collective known as Anonymous--or those claiming the name--has failed to live up to threats made via YouTube and social media. But they have brought a lot of buzz to the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Updated Tue Oct 18, 2011
Smartling CEO Jack Welde: Translating Content Is The New Having A Web Presence A new "self-serve" site from Smartling, a New York City tech startup, helps businesses convert their digital content into any languages they want. CEO Jack Welde believes soon, having a site just in English will be like having no web presence at all...
Updated Sat Oct 15, 2011
Wall Street Actually Occupied (Briefly) Can a leaderless, agenda-less movement also survive without a home base? With the specter of eviction looming, Occupy Wall Street tested their "organized chaos" approach to protesting and wound up on Wall Street proper.
Updated Sat Oct 15, 2011
Protest On Wall Street Is Louder Online Than Off A modest, recession-inspired demonstration grabs plenty of online attention. Is the future of activism more digital than physical? Fast Company goes inside the Sept. 17 OccupyWallStreet demonstration in New York (and follows reactions online) to find out.
Updated Fri Oct 7, 2011
What To Expect From iOS 5 Cloudy with a chance of social. Here's what we know about iOS 5
Updated Tue Oct 4, 2011
Amazon Channels Apple At Kindle Fire Launch Yesterday’s Amazon product extravaganza shows how much its slate business has become like Apple’s--and how much it hasn’t.
Updated Thu Sep 29, 2011
Android Is Having A Cinderella Moment For years, the Android smartphone operating system stood as Google's neglected stepsister aside Apple's radiant iPhones and beloved iOS. That's all changing now.
Updated Fri Sep 16, 2011
Publishers Are Mining Solid-Gold From Apple And Amazon's Nugget-Sized Reads Sales of physical books might be tanking, but Apple's "Quick Reads" and Amazon's "Singles" are providing a new source of readers and revenue for publishers.
Updated Wed Sep 14, 2011
The One-Stop Personal Finance Site Is Coming--Pay Bills! Most personal finance sites let consumers look but not touch--they can view bills but not pay them. Tech startups and a few brave banks are slowly trying to change all of that.
Updated Thu Sep 1, 2011
A New Study Aid, Citelighter, Hitches A Ride To Campus With CollegeHumor Citelighter makes web research tools. CollegeHumor makes fun of everything. The strange bedfellows kicked off a cross-promotion this week to help students get work done. How did that happen?
Updated Wed Aug 24, 2011
The Search For What Clicks In The New Digital Singles Scene Online dating startups are using quirky concepts, and emerging technology--from facial recognition to geolocation--to challenge traditional predecessors like Match.com and eHarmony. Where’s the love and where’s the money?
Updated Fri Aug 19, 2011
CES Forecast: Cloudy With A Chance Of Social At the next Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, you'll see more web and mobile app companies--even tiny startups--than in years past. A member of the tradeshow's agenda-setting committee gives us an early preview.
Updated Thu Jun 30, 2011
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