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Six Things Experienced Hackathon Planners Know (That You Don't)
This story includes interviews with Hacker League Founder Mike Swift, Delyn Simons of Mashery, and Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson.Every company wants to be innovative. Unfortunately it's easy to underestimate...
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How Breather Lets You Into Its NYC Buildings Without Keys (Or An Internet...
As city dwellers know, it's awesome to live here but it can sure suck to visit. Without a pad of your own, out-of-towners are left skipping from Starbucks to Whole Foods to Starbucks to collect...
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Why Facebook Invented A New PHP-Derived Language Called "Hack"
This story includes interviews with Facebook engineers Julien Verlaguet and Ed Smith.When Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard classmates first logged in to TheFacebook in February 2004, the site's servers ran...
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With New Information, Our Data Models Point To Foul Play On Malaysia Air...
We're now entering the fifth week of the search for MH370, and here at Fast Company Labs, the fourth week of developing our Monte Carlo data model in order to figure out where it went. We determined...
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Why Can't E-Books Disrupt The Lucrative College Textbook Business?
This story includes interviews with Chegg's Nathan Schultz, Texts.com's Peter Frank, and Boundless's Arial Diaz.College students today stream movies from Netflix, queue up music on Spotify, and order...
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The Manager's One-Minute Guide To Brainstorming Apps
This story contains an interview with Jon Lax, cofounder of Teehan+Lax.The most misunderstood axiom about technology among management is that building a successful digital product begins with the...
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Testing Facebook's Oculus Rift Headset In An Elementary School, Here's What...
If it's two things you'd think belong nowhere near a classroom, it's immersive video games and Facebook. But not at Jackson School, a primary and secondary school outside of Melbourne. It's become one...
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Can Coding Bootcamps Integrate With Colleges?
This story contains interviews with Shawn Drost, cofounder of Hack Reactor, and Jeff Casimir, executive director of the Turing School of Software and Design and business manager of Jumpstart Lab.In the...
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Should A Company's Belief System Be "Open Allocation," Too?
This is a News Scrum, in which senior reporters discuss a national tech story using information missing from the mainstream conversation.Today's discussion: I may not believe in same-sex marriage, but...
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Does The Tech Industry's Obsessive Party Fetish Pay Off?
Tech parties often get a bad rap. At one recent event, the organizers paid for a 600-pound tiger in a cage and a monkey trained to pose for Instagram photos. Another party for a prominent Googler...
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This Reddit-Style Web App For Legislation Wants To Reinvent Democracy
Ted Henderson knows the inefficiencies of Capitol Hill all too well. But after seeing how technology can impact democracy, the former Congressional staffer set out to build an app that would change the...
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Advice From The Kickstarter Millionaires Club On Raising Seven Figures
This story contains interviews with Adam Rodnitzky, co-creator of the Structure Sensor; Daniel Cowen, a cofounder of 3Doodler; Jan Goetgeluk, creator of the Omni; Michael Armani, creator of the Micro;...
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Why Mega-Publisher Hearst Ditched "R&D Labs" And Opened Up Its Data Instead
This story includes interviews with Hearst CTO Philip Wiser.With more than 200 companies from publishing to health information services, Hearst is a big company. The kind that usually creates special...
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The Big Question In Retail Now Is "What Are You Doing With Geotriggers?"
This past December, Foursquare users noticed something a bit different about the way their app worked. When they visited new venues or even new neighborhoods, their phones would ping them with tips...
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7 Dead Simple Ways To Make Your Own GIFs
What's the quickest way to start looping your digital emotions? Sure, you could fire up Photoshop and start building an animated GIF the old-fashioned way, but today's mobile-connected, share-crazy...
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Why Pinterest's Small GIF Performance Problems Matter Big Time For Team Morale
This story contains interviews with Ludo Antonov and Cristina Petrovici, both growth engineers at Pinterest, and Silvia Oviedo-López, international operations manager at Pinterest.Call 2014 the year of...
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How The Word "Entrepreneur" Got Too Popular For Its Own Good
This story contains interviews with economists and researchers David Autor, Erik Brynjolfsson, Dane Stangler, and Arun Sundararajan; WeWork chief strategy and marketing officer Noah Kerner; Praxis...
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As Black Box Pings Go Silent, Here's How Data Can Narrow The Search For...
We're now entering the 6th week of search of MH370, and the 5th week of FastCoLab's MH370 model. There are two major developments since the last installment of this series.First, a variety of alleged...
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What My Real Estate Agent Taught Me About Running An Indie Software Company
Frank Mitrick is a real estate agent in Chicago, Illinois. He and his wife, Cheryl, opened up their company, Real Tek Realty, 30+ years ago.When someone's been successfully running a business for more...
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The Quiet Death Of The Tech Company Mascot
This story contains interviews with clinical associate professor of marketing at New York University, Sunder Narayanan; professor of marketing at the University of Montana, Jakki Mohr; and illustrator...
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