18 Aphorisms For The Product Leader
1. You are the conductor. Your one and only job is to lead your team to make something people love. 2. If anyone on your team does not have what they need to do their very best work, consider it your...
View ArticleCapturing The Sounds Of The City With A 3-D Printed, Four-Eared Mutant
Need to clear your head and get away for a few minutes? Slip on a pair of headphones and visit Washington Square Park in New York City without paying subway fare--or getting on a train. It's not just...
View ArticleToday in Tabs: Standing Offer for Tabs
i will steal something chris jones loves for every day he refuses to fight. here i raise my banner. here i pitch my pavilion. here i wait.- Mallory Ortberg (@mallelis) January 4, 2013Internet tough guy...
View ArticleSideSwipe Lets You Control Your Phone With Gestures Instead Of Touch
Despite recent advances in gestural interfaces, we're nowhere near the Minority Report-style future we were promised. Sure, technologies like Kinect and Leap Motion make for some impressive,...
View ArticleMIT Data Scientists Are Making Chess An Online Spectator Sport
Watching complex, strategy-based games is difficult unless you understand the play mechanics. And it's even less entertaining when the action isn't at 60 frames per second but instead on the seconds...
View ArticleToday in Tabs: Southern Bulle
Mazel Tab- Choire (@Choire) October 14, 2014Saints preserve.us from Blake Lively, Contessa of Cwestionable Copy and Superintendent of Solecism. Preserve's Fall issue is called Allure of Antebellum,...
View Article5 Apps That Will Change The Way You Think About Photos
When it comes to taking a good photograph, the human eye is still the best sensor. What happens to the image after that is probably something a machine can do just as well or better, especially given...
View ArticleCOWL For A Safer Web
When you visit a website on the modern web, you're not really just visiting one website. If you dive into the source code, you'll see that a page more likely than not pulls libraries and scripts from...
View ArticleNest CEO Tony Fadell On Why Jetsons-esque Connected Homes "Just Don't Work"
Kicking off Fast Company's Innovation By Design 2014 Conference, Fast Company Executive Editor Noah Robischon hosted an intimate chat with Nest CEO Tony Fadell. The designer behind the original iPod,...
View ArticleSoftware Made For The Military Is Being Used By The NFL To Diagnose Brain...
A software platform originally developed with funding from the Defense Department and America's intelligence agencies is now being used for a novel purpose: Diagnosing traumatic brain injuries. Ayasdi,...
View ArticleEHarmony's New Service: For $5,000, You Get Help From Human Matchmakers
Sick of filling out computer questionnaires? Want a matchmaker more like Patty Stanger, aka the Millionaire Matchmaker, who will personally size up potential candidates (if her reality show is to be...
View ArticleWhisper's No Good, Very Bad Day
Is one of the most popular anonymous secrets apps around keeping a secret of its own… and collecting intelligence on their users? In a story published earlier today, U.K. newspaper The Guardian accused...
View ArticleToday in Tabs: These Tabs About to Blow
Kesha is suing her longtime producer / exploiter, "Dr. Luke," who was clearly first in line the day they handed out the molester aliases. Dr. Luke immediately filed a countersuit alleging that Kesha is...
View ArticleThis Artwork Changes Based On Your Emotions
The simple wooden frame hangs nondescriptly on the wall, until its motion sensors spot a passerby. That initiates the "face to face" alignment, powered by a magnetic "puppeteer" arm behind the wall....
View ArticleAs First Grads Go To Market, R/GA Accelerator Shifts Focus From Hardware To...
This story contains interviews with Jenny Fielding, managing director of Techstars and the R/GA Accelerator; Daniel Diez, global chief marketing officer of R/GA; Ryan Fant, cofounder and co-CEO of Keen...
View ArticleProduct Bootcamp Week Five: Avoiding The Weird Corner Case
As our fifth week of HappyFunCorp's HFC Academy waned, the class slowly realized that these websites we were building...worked. But the end of our six-week course looms large. Soon we'll have to put...
View ArticleThe News According To Nuzzel
If you want to find news articles worth reading, you could do a lot worse than to simply check out what your friends share on Twitter and Facebook. That isn't exactly a revelation. It's closer to a...
View ArticleToday in Tabs: It's About Ethics in Tabs
The Guardian is going to be the target of… a whisper campaign.- Kyle Chayka (@chaykak) October 16, 2014The Guardian published what they clearly want to be a scathing exposé on how...
View ArticleNot Your Typical Hardware: The R/GA Accelerator's Class Of 2015
Wherever there is hardware, software and streams of data are following close behind. NYC's R/GA knows this better than most companies, given their key role in the creation of the Nike+ FuelBand and the...
View ArticleNokia's Loupe Is Smarter Than It Looks
Technologists say that a wearable tech revolution is coming. The only problem is that no one can agree on what it will look like.You've seen Google Glass headsets, smartwatches, earpieces, and even...
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