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4 Secrets For Doing Gonzo User Research By Brian Millar, fastcodesign.com Fast, cheap, and out-of-control insights can help you to outsmart the competition. Here’s how to gather them. A few years ago, I got to partner up with one of the world’s best ad creatives, Steve Henry. We spent the morning working on a brie……
The Curious Magic Of Dropbox’s Culture-Building, Product-Inspiring Outdoor Hikes By David Zax, fastcompany.com A hiking tour of San Francisco, with Dropbox coder Dan Wheeler. Dan Wheeler is a programmer for the file-sharing company Dropbox. Click around a little on Dropbox.com, and odds are Wheeler had something to do with a given product or… RT @FastCompany:…
Anonymous Forum Users Can Be Identified By Linguistics By CARMEL MELOUNEY, fastcompany.com Researchers discover ways to identify the authors of anonymous online comments through linguistic analysis. If you want to ensure your anonymous comments online really do stay anonymous, it’s probably wise to start using leetspeak. … http://flip.it/IVsls Related articles Linguistics Identifies Anonymous Users (disinfo.com)…
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……
Want To Work For An Innovative Company? Be Prepared To Answer These Unusual Interview Questions By Christina Chaey, fastcompany.com “If you were to get rid of one state in the U.S., which would it be and why?” and more oddball questions you might be asked on your next job interview. The next time you step…
TalentBin Takes On LinkedIn By Targeting Recruiters By David Zax, fastcompany.com By trolling various sites, TalentBin builds a database of people’s hidden talents. Can it reinvent headhunting in the process? TalentBin, as its founder Pete Kazanjy explains, is a LinkedIn competitor. And yet, if the average person with … RT @FastCompany: TalentBin Takes On LinkedIn…
Google Analytics For Real Life: Tracking Retail Customers Through Smartphones By Neal Ungerleider, fastcompany.com A new technology debuting at New York’s National Retail Federation expo lets retailers track in-store customer activity through their smartphones’ MAC addresses. A new product released at this year’s National Retail Federation expo in New Y… RT @FastCompany: Google Analytics For…
10 Job Interview Tips From A CEO Headhunter By Russell S. Reynolds, Jr., with Carol E. Curtis, fastcompany.com Whether you’re being interviewed to be an intern or a CEO, you’re going to run into a few notoriously tricky questions—here’s a road map of what you’ll be asked, and how to craft impressive answers to even…
The Future Of Coworking And Why It Will Give Your Business A Huge Edge By Lydia Dishman, fastcompany.com Here are the numbers that support the case for coworking—and why it’s not just for startups or freelancers anymore. Fun. Friendly. Inspiring. Collaborative. Productive. If you wouldn’t define your workplace with any or all of those ter……
3 Strategies For Managing Public Speaking Anxiety By Deborah Grayson Riegel, fastcompany.com Mark Twain once said, “There are two kinds of speakers: those that are nervous and those that are liars.” In other words, no matter how seasoned or “under-seasoned” you are when it comes to making presentations, there is going to be some… RT…
Kumbh Mela festival is proof that crowds can be good for you Posted by Stephen Reicher, guardian.co.uk It’s overcrowded, noisy and insanitary, but a study suggests the Kumbh Mela improves devotees’ mental and physical wellbeing Once a year, at the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers in northern India, something truly remarkable happens.… RT…
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