What Really Drove 23andMe And The FDA Apart BY ROBERT SAFIAN, fastcompany.com Is getting a $99 DNA test really hazardous to your health? Our editor-in-chief decodes an innovation dustup. When we put 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki on the cover of Fast Company’s November issue, we didn’t expect the FDA to yank the compan… http://flip.it/UoyAS Related … Continue reading 23andMe and the FDA: what really drove them apart
The Eye-Popping Images On Colossal Will Make Art Lovers Of Us All BY BRYAN LUFKIN, fastcompany.com Christopher Jobson’s knack for finding the most stunning, share-worthy pictures on the Internet make his site Colossal required browsing for anyone remotely interested in the visual arts. Between celebrity Twitter feuds, televised nip slips, … http://flip.it/FUUZv Related articles The … Continue reading Colossal finds most incredible images
Why The iDoorCam Is An Indiegogo Sensation BY NEAL UNGERLEIDER, fastcompany.com Investors are going gaga for a smartphone-integrated doorbell that lets anyone screen visitors on a video app integrated into their iPhones or Androids. iDoorCam is that rarest of things: A bona fide Indiegogo phenomenon. The Wi-Fi- enabled… http://flip.it/vkYub Related articles The Top 10 Business … Continue reading iDoorCam wifi door bell and camera on Indiegogo
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Call It “Artisanal,” And 5 Other Ways To Crush Self-Publishing By: Sam Harrison, fastcompany.com When former Apple evangelist Guy Kawasaki submitted what he believed was a perfect manuscript to a professional copyeditor, the editor found 1,500 errors. So he knows a thing or two (or 1,500) about how to self-publish the right way. Read on … Continue reading The rise of artisanal publishing
How To Tweet Your Way To Your Dream Job By: Lydia Dishman, fastcompany.com Three out of four people are in constant job-search mode and, increasingly, Twitter is their tool of choice. Here’s how to make 140 characters work for you. Can a tweet—or three—land you a dream job? That’s a question Taylor Aldredge now… http://flip.it/ZMN7U … Continue reading Tweet yourself to a dream job
Why You Can’t Find Women Engineers: They’re Too Well-Rounded By: Anya Kamenetz, fastcompany.com “Not lack of ability, but more choice,” say researchers. Silicon Valley’s hottest companies are hurting for women engineers. And many pixels have been spilled trying to figure out why. The answer, according to a study released by Pitt… Why You Can’t Find … Continue reading Why aren’t there more women in engineering? Because they’re sane.
The Art Of Writing Your Own Bio: How To Toot Your Horn Without Sounding Like A Blowhard By Jonathan Rick, fastcompany.com The problem with your bio isn’t the boasting—it’s who’s doing the boasting. After college, I did what most liberal arts grads do when they come to Washington: I interned at a think tank. As … Continue reading Write a good bio
The Most Innovative Social Media Companies 2013 By: FAST COMPANY STAFF, fastcompany.com In an increasingly social world, if you’re not evolving, you’re not winning. These companies impress us with their social media savvy. 1_Tencent For building a suite of communications apps that 300 million Chinese are talking through.… RT @30SecMBA: 10 #fcmostinnovative social businesses you … Continue reading The most innovative social media companies
Infographic: The Languages Of New York, Mapped By Tweets By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com Who speaks which languages in New York? One team looked at 8.5 million tweets to map it out. It looks like every block of NYC has been wrapped in Christmas lights, but in reality, you’re looking at the nine most prominently tweeted… … Continue reading Visualizing the languages of NYC
“Bridge” Design Residencies Will Offer Plum Jobs At Path, Pinterest, And Airbnb By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com A new program by the Designer Fund will pair great designers with great startups. It raises the question: Why’s this marriage so hard in the first place? Path, Dropbox, Pinterest, Airbnb. They’re some of the most high-profile startups in … Continue reading Bridge design residencies
Coworking Spaces From GRid70 To Grind Help Employees Work Beyond The Cube By Greg Lindsay, fastcompany.com AT&T, Zappos, and other companies are sharing office space with strangers— and not to save rent. In 2011, when the electronics firm Plantronics redesigned its headquarters in Santa Cruz, Califo … http://flip.it/LxPAI Related articles The Science of Serendipity in the … Continue reading Co working spaces and working beyond the cube
Creating Resilence By Following Nature’s Lead BY ERIN LEITCH, fastcoexist.com The natural world has found ways to work and live in harmony for a long time. If we want to also survive and create sustainability systems, biomimicry may be the key. The operating conditions of life are literally symphonic: They are a… RT @cosekoski: “We … Continue reading Bio mimicry and resilient design
Take A World Tour Of Apple’s Newly Trademarked Stores By Addy Dugdale, fastcompany.com First it won ownership of a rountangle—that’s a rectangle with rounded corners—and now Apple has patented its store design. You know, lots of giant glass, pale wood, and nerds in royal-blue tees. Apple has won itself a trademark for its retai… RT … Continue reading Apple’s trademarked stores
Why Tweaking Your Career Vocabulary Can Radically Improve Your Life By Amber Rae, fastcompany.com Reimagining the words we use to define work—and ourselves—is a powerful exercise. Words are powerful. The language we use influences how we think, feel, act, and interact with the world. That’s why I propose a new kind of dictionary. O… RT … Continue reading Re-imagining the words of work
Is This The Year We Ditch Our Cars And Start Sharing? Markus Barnikel, fastcoexist.com The CEO of Carpooling.com discusses what’s going to make 2013 a huge year for ridesharing.2012 marked a big year for the sharing economy with new launches, explosive growth rates, and millions spent in venture capital funding. In 2013, the growth … … Continue reading The year of car sharing
Anya Kamenetz, fastcompany.com Are you gonna eat that? Here are four social networks that want to take food sharing way beyond photos.Globally, 30 to 50 percent of all food produced is lost or wasted between crop and plate—that’s between 1.2 and 2 billion tons. Personally, eac… RT @FastCompany: Food: The Next Frontier For The Sharing … Continue reading Food: The Next Frontier For The Sharing Economy?
Watch: Days Pass In Minutes In These Hypnotic Beach Videos By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com An L.A. artist attempts to capture the passage of time within a single video frame—no drugs needed. Xárene Eskandar wants you to feel awe. The Los Angeles media artist, whose past work ranges from tree pods to a Google marriage proposal,… … Continue reading Hypnotic time lapse videos
17 Career Lessons from Ideo’s David Kelley By Linda Tischler, fastcodesign.com David Kelley is well-known for his astute application of design thinking to many of life’s intractable problems. Less known is that he’s also a veritable Dr. Phil of good advice about life, careers, and the importance of not being a… RT @FastCompany: “You’re the … Continue reading 17 Career Lessons from Ideo’s David Kelley
Tag, Share, And Set Your Life To Music With SoundTracking By Tyler Gray, fastcompany.com Schematic Labs cofounder and CEO and former imeem CMO Steve Jang says he’s making it easier to share yourself through music (and maybe hook up with your rock ‘n’ roll crush). You’re already soundtracking your life, whether or not you use… … Continue reading Tag, Share, And Set Your Life To Music With SoundTracking
Watch this: ‘Firefly,’ a stylish skateboarding video shot with a drone By Adi Robertson, theverge.com Skateboarders have been taping their tricks with jury-rigged video setups since the advent of camcorders, but the producers of short and beautiful video Firefly took the next logical step: using a camera mounted to a hexacopte… Watch this: ‘Firefly,’ a … Continue reading DIY drone filmmaking replaces expensive Hollywood tech
Smartest Cities In America: Fast Company Ranks Brainiest Cities Aaron Sankin, huffingtonpost.com How brainy is your ‘hood? That’s the question posed by Dr. Boyd Cohen in a recent article published in Fast Company. Cohen looked at cities across North America and rated them on a “smart city” scale based on characteristics ranging… http://flip.it/S4G4J Related articles … Continue reading Smartest cities in America Fast Company ranking
By Neil Janowitz, fastcompany.com Lessons: “Sometimes people are offended by the name, which is obviously never our intention. But I’ve learned that we’re not here to please everyone, and I’m ok with that. Not everybody loves what we do—and that’s probably for … Fuck Cancer CEO Yael Cohen On You Can't Please Everybody Related articles … Continue reading Fuck Cancer CEO Yael Cohen On You Can’t Please Everybody
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