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The Web's 10 Most Unusual Social Networks

Trying to meet people on MySpace or Facebook is like participating in one of those office gift exchanges: you have no idea what you're going to get. Witness the rise of niche social networks, where hamster enthusiasts, mustache lovers, even lonely ...

From ELLEN GIBSON, Fast Company,  1 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  John Deere,  Jerry Miller,  Brad Pitt,  Angelina Jolie

Are Those Rebate Checks Helping?

For one rebate recipient, “this picture sums it up.” She spent the money on groceries and gas. Buffalo Bills season tickets, Obama campaign donations, cannabis indica, a "mom" tattoo, lottery tickets, two leather-bound bibles, Terminator collectibles, ...

From ELLEN GIBSON, Fast Company,  13 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Buffalo Bills,  Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  John Mellencamp

The Wide, Wide World of Heroes

NBC's Heroes racked up the network's top-selling DVD for 2007 by cultivating die-hard fans with extensions of the show's fantasy world across every form of media (while selling plenty of additional advertising against those extensions along the way). ...

From ELLEN GIBSON, Fast Company,  15 Apr 2008
Related Topics: George Takei

Fast 50 Face-off: A Conversation with Innovation Guru Dev Patnaik

We knew our ranking of the world's 50 most innovative companies would be controversial. For an unassailable list, we would have used some dull quantitative metric, like number of new patents. Instead, we polled experts, researched products, and spent ...

From ELLEN GIBSON, Fast Company,  20 Mar 2008
Related Topics: IBM,  Nike,  Madonna,  JetBlue,  Richard Branson

What's Happening This Month

Browse events in April, from the world's biggest lighting show to, inevitably, Tax Day. tuesday, april 1 Read Right of the Dial: The Rise of Clear Channel and the Fall of Commercial Radio If you've ever overpaid for concert tickets or bemoaned the ...

From ALEC FOEGE, THEUNIS BATES, DAVID LIDSKY, ELLEN GIBSON, KATE ROCKWOOD, JEFF CHU, SCOTT MEDINTZ, TIM MCKEOUGH, Fast Company,  20 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Clear Channel Communications, Inc.,  Rube Goldberg,  James Bond

Open House: Just Plane Ambitious

London unveils a new airline terminal on March 30, a few weeks after Beijing. Here's a look at the two new temples of aviation. Richard Rogers, aka Baron Rogers of Riverside, known for Paris's Pompidou Center and London's Millennium Dome Norman ...

From ELLEN GIBSON, Fast Company,  14 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Richard Rogers,  Norman Foster,  Gordon Ramsay

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