May 21, 2012
The clackety-clack of weaving looms has long given way to automotive and turbine manufacturing in Greenville, SC, but the little urbane city in the foothills of the Blue Ridge is also home to a growing tech community that's about to bust out.
...Does long-form journalism have an audience even at BuzzFeed, the place where 33 animals are extremely disappointed in you? The site's editor, Ben Smith, has found that it does. Now, how about that BuzzFeed book?
When Ben Smith, one of our freshly minted Most Creative...
From Bogota to Tunisia, “bad diplomat” Suzanne Philion has spent a decade shaking up old-school notions of a career in Foreign Service.
You know the picture of Hillary Clinton on the plane, texting with shades on? The behind-the-scenes image became an Internet meme in...
We hacked through the media coverage surrounding Facebook's massive IPO to bring you the mother of all news roundups in one linkable extravaganza.
May 17, 2012
What would you do if you were named the first-ever editor of one of the world's fastest-growing media companies and put in charge of a publishing platform with about 44 million users? Chris Mohney on taking Tumblr beyond "F*&% Yeah" memes.
Let's say you were handed the keys to a ...
May 16, 2012
New York City's government just announced a new listing service for tech jobs. But what about that pesky poor-business-broadband-in-NYC problem?
New York City matters to tech. It's also a place where the high-tech sector is largely tied into...
New research shows just how much we love to talk about ourselves. Twitter and Facebook have built massive platforms on this premise. How long before many other brands grab a piece of our action?
You run through the latest collection of your party photos, psyched to share the best ones with a few good friends. You email them and post them on...
If you’re not the type who can sit on a park bench and contemplate nothing, and the conversation around the Keurig machine bores you, what can you do with 15 minutes that isn’t really work but pays off in productivity?
After 90 minutes of meeting, working, thinking, and pushing emails, your glucose is in a bad place. That’s what...
How Fab.com pivoted from a failed social network for gays to a retailing powerhouse valued at $200 million in less than 6 months. The third in our Pivot series.
Bradford Shellhammer and Jason Goldberg realized it just wasn't working.
Their gay social...
About 2,000 years before Clayton Christensen coined “disruption” or Renee Mauborgne the “blue ocean,” Chinese strategists passed down a fable about a peasant who stole a sheep. The fable defines a strategic pattern that many have labeled since: a pattern at the heart of history’s most significant companies, social movements, and...
