A Priceless Story: Zainab Salbi, founder of Women for Women, has raised money with the help of her own tale of surviving war. | Photographs by Rennio Maifredi Zero Experience, Tons of Drive: The not-for-profit Do Something tapped George Weiner and made him its CTO.
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Zilch: Get What You Want for Nothing
Kirin’s Free beer (as opposed to free beer: that would obviously bankrupt the company PDQ) is a non-alcoholic lager with an interesting marketing campaign attached. Launched last month, the TV spot is filled with young, expectant mothers hanging out in a playground and drinking cans of the amber nectar.
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Free Beer Not as Good as It Sounds–Unless You’re Pregnant
Privacy has become an “opt-in” feature on Facebook–and that has massively changed the service. Facebook privacy setttings are eroding . But the scope and speed of that transformation has happened fairly quietly–maybe because we’ve never before had an infographic that lays all the changes out
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Infographic of the Day: Privacy on Facebook is Vanishing
The Brainiacs Jill Tarter Director SETI When astronomer Jill Tarter was awarded the TED Prize in 2009, she was given the opportunity to make a wish big enough to change the world, and she did: “I wish that you would empower Earthlings everywhere to become active participants in the ultimate search for cosmic company.” Now Tarter is laying the groundwork to make her own wish come true, by reorganizing the way the scientific community works and how we Earthlings search for intelligent extraterrestrial life.
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Jill Tarter, Director of SETI
Palm’s safely in HP’s hands now, but for several years it’s been financially boosted by U2 frontman Bono’s company Elevation Partners. With their involvement wrapped up, the rocker’s financial experiment fared okay, but just okay [Ed.note: much like the quality of the last few U2 albums].
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Rattle and Palm: HP Saves the Day, but How Did Bono Fare? [Update]
The Media Darlene Liebman Cofounder and Vice President of Production Howcast Studios Ever wondered how to…well, anything? Welcome to Howcast, offering instructional videos on everything from tying a sailor’s knot to decorating a cake. FastCompany.com spoke with Howcast cofounder Darlene Liebman
You might be able to cut upwards of 25% of your household carbon emissions in six easy steps.
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Infographic of the Day: 6 Ways to Lower Your Carbon Emissions
Layar , the augmented reality browser, is stepping up its efforts to bring sci-fi-like AR to the world: It’s just introduced in-app shopping. Yes, that’s the world’s first augmented reality store, and it implies all sorts of astonishing potential for all sorts of people–from world travelers to Disney vacationers. Layar , explaining the new system in a blog posting, makes pretty light of the matter: “Publishers on the Layar platform now have the possibility to offer priced Augmented Reality experiences on multiple mobile platforms such as iPhone and Android.” Essentially, this is a simple reference to the new API hooks in Layar’s code that let developers connect to online payment schemes–Layar will support “mulitple payment providers and multiple currencies” and actually handles all the legal and tax side of the deal (a little like Apple’s App Store model) so that publishers can “focus on their core activities” which is producing neat AR content
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Layar Takes Shopping Into the Augmented Reality Dimension With In-App Purchasing
You think those fancy swivel chairs in the conference room are the best part of your office? Where We Work: Creative Office Spaces, from the creator of design website This Ain’t No Disco (It’s Where We Work), features 45 creative firms around the world whose offices just won’t settle for cubes. Here’s a look at 12 of those office spaces.
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Staff Meeting in the Diner? Or the Bathroom? 12 Creative Office Spaces
Just a few hours ago NASA’s Space Shuttle Discovery sprang from its launch pad on legs of fire, bound for space–for the very final time at night. It’s a mark of the end of an era in space discovery…and it’ll sadly go unnoticed by many.
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Space Shuttle: No iPad, but Still Awesome