Tag: Fast Company (magazine)

  • Visualizing global water risk

    An Incredibly Detailed Map Shows The Potential Of Global Water Risks BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com Aqueduct, a new tool from the World Resources Institute, lets you see all the bad things that might stem from water, from droughts to floods and beyond. Remem­ber the drought that hit the U.S. in 2012? It was a big…

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  • How REI Put A Bow On Social Marketing

    How REI Put A Bow On Social Marketing And Wowed Customers By Ekaterina Walter, fastcompany.com As mar­keters, we talk a lot about real-time response and true social agili­ty. But very few brands were able to mas­ter the art. So is agile mar­ket­ing a myth? A lot of brands strug­gle with agili­ty in mar­ket­ing: think­ing on…

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  • Dropbox’s Culture-Building, Product-Inspiring Outdoor Hikes

    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:…

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  • Diesel Tells You How Many Days Are Left In Your Life

    Diesel Tells You How Many Days Are Left In Your Life Joe Berkowitz, fastcocreate.com The brand expands on its “Time to Be Brave” philosophy by calculating roughly how much time each of its fans has in which to be brave.If you knew the extent of your projected longevity, it would probably change the way you…

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  • A New Company Uses Big Data To Fight Cancer

    A New Company Uses Big Data To Fight Cancer (And Rethink Basketball) BY NEAL UNGERLEIDER, fastcoexist.com Ayasdi, a new big-data firm with close ties to Stanford University and DARPA has plans to change the way researchers analyze cancer, money laundering, and professional sports. Cre­at­ing visu­al­iza­tions of huge data sets is big busi­ness.… RT @FastCompany: A…

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  • The Future Of Coworking

    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……

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