Twitter Breaks Record During Super Bowl XLVI: 12,233 Tweets Per Second Meanwhile, TV viewership of the New York Giants' 21-17 defeat over the New England Patriots remained flat, if not a bit down, from last year.
Updated Mon Feb 6, 2012
White House Takes To Google+ Hangout Again To Speak To Entrepreneurs (And Us) About Startup America Steve Case, U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra, and NEC Director Gene Sperling use Google's new-ish social tool to talk about Startup America on behalf of the White House. We're in line to ask a question right now.
Updated Fri Feb 3, 2012
SoundCloud CEO Alex Ljung's 5 Favorite Sounds On the occasion of hitting 8.5 million users, the cofounder of the dead-simple, fun, social web audio service shares which recent recordings were music to his ears.
Updated Fri Nov 18, 2011
Mark Zuckerberg And Sheryl Sandberg Respond To The Great Tech War Of 2012 "Our goal is not to build a platform," Zuckerberg says, "It's to be across all of them." And he alludes to Google+, dismissing it as a "little version of Facebook." Shots fired!
Updated Tue Nov 8, 2011
A Sneak Peek At Virgin's New Sparkly Tops And "Glass Bottoms" How the airline (why, what were you thinking?) is transforming their cabins into flying chill-out rooms.
Updated Fri Nov 4, 2011
VibeDeck's YouTube Service, Fake Apple Stores, Games On Google+, Post-Riot Social Media Crackdown, Chip Implants Fast Company's editors sift breaking news for nuggets of worthwhile innovation. Updated all day.
Updated Fri Aug 12, 2011
London Rioters' Unrequited Love For BlackBerry Rioters in North London have been using BBMs to rally, presuming RIM's phone-to-phone, encrypted messages won't land in the hands of authorities. But in an increasingly familiar move, RIM has now pledged to work with those authorities.
Updated Mon Aug 8, 2011
How Spotify's Casual Encounters Seduce Young U.S. Music Lovers Music listeners today want to fool around with all sorts of artists without the hassle of commitment. Spotify's cool with that. Here's what the streaming service brings to the U.S. music biz and freewheelin' music consumers like you.
Updated Fri Jul 15, 2011
The Arcade Fire Duets With Google For Cannes Grand Prix Winner "The Wilderness Downtown" Hot new code, three-way Chrome browser action, and tunes by indie rock darlings--it's everything a geek could want (short of a girlfriend). UPDATE: Arcade fire's feats win the Grand Prix at Cannes Lions!
Updated Wed Jun 22, 2011
Judge Undercuts Online Copyright Law, Here's What That Looks Like David Kravets, a writer for Wired's Threat Level blog, reports on the ruling handed down by a federal judge that, simply put, allowed for the reposting of an entire article without permission. To show how asinine that is, we've reposted Wired's entire article. You should actually go to Wired and read it. Don't read it here. In fact, the whole first sentence below is a link over to Wired.
Updated Tue Jun 21, 2011
For 125th Anniversary, Coke Spills Onto iPad, Luxury Coffee Table Book [Video] We all know the people who collect Coke everything--shirts, fridge magnets, art. The company has a remarkable history of iconic ads. And now the ultimate Coke fiend can own that rich history in an app and a gorgeous book that goes for $650--or roughly the cost of 464 twenty-ouncers.
Updated Mon May 23, 2011
Kiva Powers Up Web Commerce With New Bot-On-Bot Action These amazing bro-bots work in pairs and in three dimensions to vastly improve efficiency and organization--without incessant high-fiving! Watch a time-lapse video of them moving Diapers.com's entire stock to a new location in 36 hours flat!
Updated Fri May 20, 2011
Jay-Z's New Cartoon State of Mind Expect an animated presence from Jay-Z in 2011. Hova has a development deal with Adult Swim that's expected to result in an original series, possibly featuring the artist's music, AdWeek reports in its Upfronts coverage.
Updated Thu May 19, 2011
Conan O'Brien Expresses Himself For Fast Company's Most Creative People Issue The host of the "Conan" show got in touch with his inner Madonna, his inner Einstein, and even his inner Steve Jobs for Fast Company's June issue. Here's an exclusive look behind the scenes of our cover shoot. Look for Fast Company's Most Creative People issue at FastCompany.com on Wednesday, on newsstands soon.
Updated Tue May 17, 2011
The GOP Contenders Face Off As debates begin, the facial coding experts at Sensory Logic examine the looks of the Republican hopefuls--Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, and Donald Trump among them--already emerging as potential nominees in the 2012 Presidential election. Here, a guide to what emotional reactions--and votes--their faces are likely to garner.
Updated Fri May 6, 2011
Inside The Egyptian Rebellion Launched On Facebook In a new story for tablet app The Atavist, writer David Wolman explores just how important social media really was to the Egyptian uprising. Here's an early look.
Updated Wed May 4, 2011
Osama Bin Laden Dead, The Story Twitter Broke Keith Urbahn, chief of staff for the office of the former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, appears to be the first to have broken the news that Osama bin Laden, 54, the man responsible for the attacks of September 11, 2001, is dead--via his @keithurbahn Twitter feed.
Updated Mon May 2, 2011
Morgan Spurlock on His Doc Sponsors: "We Should Have Asked for So Much More Money" At the photo shoot for our April feature, the director of "Pom Wonderful Presents The Greatest Movie Ever Sold" talks about scavenging for cash in exchange for blatant product placement in his film ... about product placement. Would he do it again? Yep. For twice the price.
Updated Wed Mar 30, 2011
