creativity and innovation

ComScore Sees the Bigger Picture

Bill Barol — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:45:07 -0500

Tania Yuki
Senior Product Manager, Video Metrix

comScore
> New York, New York

Tania Yuki, 29, works with comScore clients such as CBS, Google, Microsoft, and NBC to gauge who their online video content is actually reaching.

The Most Influential Women in Technology

Lynne d Johnson, Ellen McGirt, and Sherri Smith — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:46:05 -0500

We inadvertently ignited a firestorm late last year when we posted a story on fastcompany.com called "The Most Influential Women in Web 2.0." The post became the subject of heated debate on the user-recommendation site Digg, as well as on our own site.

2009 BIO International Convention

Women in Tech: The Executives

Fast Company Staff — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:46:04 -0500

- Genevieve Bell
Director
User Experience Group
Intel

- Sandy Carter
VP, Service-Oriented Architecture & WebSphere Marketing
IBM

- Safra Catz
President
Oracle

- Susan DeckerPresident
Yahoo

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Women in Tech: The Entrepreneurs

Fast Company Staff — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:46:03 -0500

-Gina Bianchini
cofounder and CEO
Ning

This custom social-network maker made a splash on our May 2008 cover, and not just because she knew what a viral expansion loop was. With 500,000-plus networks now running on Ning, the company has had its share of developer challenges but remains cashed up and growing.

-Caterina Fake
cofounder
Flickr
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Women in Tech: The Gamers

Fast Company Staff — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:46:01 -0500

-Paulina Bozek
Development Director
Atari

After a six-year tenure at Sony running the 15-million-copy SingStar franchise, Bozek was tapped in September to revitalize Atari.

-Lucy Bradshaw
Executive Producer
Electronic Arts
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Women in Tech: The Evangelists

Fast Company Staff — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:46:00 -0500

-Mitchell Baker
Chairwoman
Mozilla Foundation

Baker, a part-time trapeze artist, is a full-time advocate for open-source software and an Internet that functions as a public resource.

-Danah Boyd
ethnographer and social-media expert
Microsoft Research New England
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Women in Tech: The Activists

Fast Company Staff — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:45:58 -0500

-Yvette J. Alberdingk Thijm
executive director
Witness

A member of Witness's board of directors since 2005, Alberdingk Thijm joined the nonprofit human-rights video community full time in 2008.

-Dana Bourland
senior director
Enterprise Community Partners' Green Communities
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Women in Tech: The Brainiacs

Fast Company Staff — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:45:57 -0500

-Vice Admiral Nancy Brown
Adviser to the Joint Chiefs of Staff

In the future, technology will be both the means of waging war and the key to keeping peace. Brown has literally written the book: Her Joint Net-Centric Operations Campaign Plan is the strategy to "better integrate and synchronize joint community transformation and maximize joint warfighting capabilities." Sit up straight when you read that, soldier.
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Women in Tech: The Bloggers

Fast Company Staff — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:45:55 -0500

-Heather Armstrong
Dooce

Best known for getting fired for blogging about her work life, Armstrong coined the term for the experience: "dooce." Now she's the model for mommy blogging, writing with humor and candor about her battles with depression, being a former Mormon, and, yes, the rugrats. Apparently, honesty puts food on the table too.

-Elisa Camahort Page, Jory Des Jardins, and Lisa Stone
BlogHer
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GE's New Ecomagineer Spills It

Anya Kamenetz — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:45:24 -0500

GE mirrors the American economy much better than most companies -- for good and ill. Last year, the credit squeeze assailed GE Capital, its financial-services arm; the company missed an earnings prediction, driving the stock price down by half; it even turned to Uncle Warren for a $3 billion shot of confidence.
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How Green is Wireless Electricity?

Paul Hochman — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:30:11 -0500

>> The market for wireless electricity has inventors and investors upbeat, even in a down market. "This is going to be so big I don't think I can even get my arms around the market impact," says Steve Anderson, the senior vice president for Texas Instruments' power-management group. Anderson's crew is developing the integrated circuits that manage the power flow in wireless inductive power pads. "This is a huge step," he says.
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Wireless Electricity Is Here (Seriously)

Paul Hochman — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:30:06 -0500

I'm standing next to a Croatian-born American genius in a half-empty office in Watertown, Massachusetts, and I'm about to be fried to a crisp. Or I'm about to witness the greatest advance in electrical science in a hundred years. Maybe both.

Either way, all I can think of is my electrician, Billy Sullivan. Sullivan has 11 tattoos and a voice marinated in Jack Daniels. During my recent home renovation, he roared at me when I got too close to his open electrical panel: "I'm the Juice Man!" he shouted. "Stay the hell away from my juice!"
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Geek Out: Macworld vs. CES

Fast Company staff — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:30:06 -0500

WHEN
MacWorld: January 5-9
CES: January 8-11

ATTENDANCE
MacWorld: 50,000
CES: 150,000

GETTING IN
MacWorld: Macworld is public. Buy a pass ($299-$1895), lace up your New Balances, and show up.
CES: It’s a trade show, so buddy up to the office IT guys unless you still have an expense account. Better yet, start a tech blog and get a media pass.
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What Obama Can Teach You About Your Business

Kermit Pattison — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:30:05 -0400

Memo to CEOs: Yes You Can. The Obama campaign can teach businesses a few things about using technology. The campaign changes the game just as much as the introduction of tracking polls or focus groups, and is perhaps the most prominent example yet of Net Roots, a combination of Internet and grassroots strategies.

How well has the Obama campaign used technology compared to others?

Obama's use of and understanding of technology is better than any campaign I've ever seen -- ever. Certainly better than any campaigns in this cycle.
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Wall Street and the New Startup Economy

Chris Dannen — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:00:09 -0400

The vocabulary of this month's financial news has been dismal, with words like slumping, collapsing, and failure dominating the media lexicon. While the tumult has prompted credit scarcity, layoffs, and write-downs for many companies, the market for tech startups has remained a small and viable haven.
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Are Those Rebate Checks Helping?

Ellen Gibson — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:57:14 -0400

Buffalo Bills season tickets, Obama campaign donations, cannabis indica, a "mom" tattoo, lottery tickets, two leather-bound bibles, Terminator collectibles, wedding expenses, and a divorce attorney -- all purchases people have posted on the website HowISpentMyStimulus.com, exposing what Rudy Adler calls the "idiosyncratic spending habits of the American public."
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Star Power: Dr. Andrews' Patient List is a Veritable Who's Who of Sports

Ellen Gibson — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:45:07 -0400

Click to view th Star Map

1. JOHN SMOLTZ, Tommy John surgery, shoulder surgery;
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Summer Reading: Why More People Are Listening to Books

Kermit Pattison — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:15:06 -0400

So what did you read this summer? Chances are, more and more of you listened instead. According to the American Association of Publishers, audio book sales grew by 20 percent last year. The largest online seller of audiobooks is Audible, which was acquired by Amazon earlier this year for $300 million. Audible offers more than 80,000 downloadable programs from current best sellers to daily newspapers.

What is popular summer listening this year?
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How TerraCycle Plans to Takeover the Garbage Industry

Kermit Pattison — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:15:10 -0400

Garbage in, garbage out? This old cliché may become obsolete as trash becomes the raw material of innovation and green business. Upcycling, or turning disposable items into new products, is becoming big business. The leading player in this growing industry is TerraCycle, which makes a variety of products from recycled material: fertilizers from worm poop, backpacks from juice pouches and reusable tote bags from plastic bags. Based in Trenton, New Jersey, the 60-person company had $8 million in sales last year and expects $15 million this year.
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The Box Score

J.L. August — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:30:40 -0400

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Myspace, the Sequel

Ellen McGirt — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:30:39 -0400

Chris Dewolfe, the lanky, shaggily hip CEO of Myspace, is holding his last meeting of the day from a prone position, a collection of long limbs stacked on a tiny red love seat. The early evening powwow, taking place in the cramped office of his senior communications director, is interrupted when I come crashing in to say good-bye.
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The Fast 50 Reader Favorites of 2008

Fast Company staff — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:15:09 -0400

You can browse the reader favorites below. And feel free to continue rating and commenting on the reader favorites or the entire list of nominees. Congratulations to the 50 reader favorites!
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Big Wind from Texas

Kermit Pattison — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:12:46 -0400

Quick! What state symbolizes the old petroleum economy? Texas, of course. Now, what state leads the way towards a future of clean, renewable wind energy? Texas again! By early 2008, Texas had installed more than 5,300 megawatts of wind production -- more than twice second place state California -- and had another 2,000 megawatts under production. Why in the name of Sam Houston is the state of Spindletop messing with wind?
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Creativity is in the Detail, and Everywhere…

Margaret Heffernan — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:49:58 -0400

Creativity. Innovation. Originality. These are today’s buzzwords. Every few years, we get a few. It seems like only yesterday that globalization was top of everyone’s worry list. Before that of course it was all about networks and networking. But today every company with its eye on the ball is concerned about how to be -- or how to become -- an innovator. And so these companies start to look around for the imaginative people in their midst and to ask some serious questions about how to make everyone else creative.
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Inside the Bun: The Business of Selling Hot Dogs

Fast Company staff — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:00:05 -0400

Americans will eat about 2.3 billion hot dogs -- eight per person -- during National Hot Dog Month. National Hot Dog Day is July 18th, but the 4th is the biggest dog day.

17 Contestants ate 576.5 hot dogs and buns at last year's Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest.

66 Hot Dogs were eaten in 12 minutes by 2007 winner Joey Chestnut, who won $10,000 and set a new world record.
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facebook myspace.com

Tagline "A social utility that connects you with the people around you" "A place for friends"

Launch Date February 2004 January 2004

Early Adopters

	facebook	myspace.com
Tagline	"A social utility that connects you with the people around you"	"A place for friends"
Launch Date	February 2004	January 2004
Early Adopters