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With the Super Bowl less than two weeks away, advertisers are following one of two plays: Remain completely mum about what they’re going to do, or attempt to maximize that $3.5 million ad spend with teaser videos on YouTube. Actually, there’s a third option as well: Run a contest with consumer…
Big-ticket product launches like the Galaxy Nexus and Kindle Fire got gobs of attention this year. But between the marquee product unveilings there were even better stories — telltale hints of what kind of tech might be in products five, 10 or 15 years out.
If 2011 will be remembered for the irruption of Google+ onto the social media center stage, it could also be rightly defined as the year when online influence measuring came of age. Klout and its close competitors Kred and Peer Index have been busy rewriting the rules of the game at a speedy pace, and – despite their more or less obvious imperfections – there is no way back with respect to the step forward they represent and their long-term, profound implications for online reputation and personal branding.
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There’s a resurgence occurring in goods made and designed in the US - a comeback long overdue. Fast Company’s excellent “Made in America” series curates stories on the people helping to bring manufacturing and design back to the forefront in America.
 | The United States of Design 2011 | Fast Company From GM to 3M, in boardrooms and on Wall Street, in Silicon Valley and on Madison Avenue, design matters more than ever. Around the globe, American designers have never been more influential. Welcome to an unexpected and inspiring moment. READ MORE A sampling of design strongholds in corporate America. |
A feature highlighting American designers:
 | The United States Of Design | Fast Company From GM to 3M, in boardrooms and on Wall Street, in Silicon Valley and on Madison Avenue, design matters more than ever. Around the globe, American designers have never been more influential. Welcome to an unexpected and inspiring moment. Early last November, Scott Wilson was feeling a little gloomy. |
How do you capture the present state of design in one single chart, with only 50 names? Fast Company gives it a good shot with their fantastic interactive infographic:
 | Infographic Of The Day: America’s 50 Most Influential Designers | Co. Design How do you capture the present state of design in one single chart, with only 50 names? You don’t. But, inspired by the effort of those 50, we gave it a shot in Fast Company’s 2011 design issue. In Fast Company’s 2011 design issue, we focused on American design: What it means, where it stands, and where it’s going. |
 | Modern Americana | Fast Company Our furniture? Made in China. Our cookware? Made in China. Our knickknacks? Made in China. Is there anything left that is still homemade? We went hunting, and it turns out there’s plenty that is designed, crafted, and finished right here in the United States of America. |
 | Fast Company’s iPad App Explores Best-Designed American Products : TreeHugger Photo: Screenshot of U.S. Design iPad app by Fast Company. If you seek out products that are “Made in America,” seek out this app. It’s called the “United States of Design” and was created by the Fast Company magazine folks. I may have come across it while looking for information on Toby Keith’s “Made in America” song rant. |
 | Web 2.0 Map Adds Cities of Data (But One of Facebook’s Skyscrapers Just Got Taller!) The term “Web 2.0” isn’t often used these days, but it signifies the era of the Web in which social, read/write technologies came to the fore. Google was the golden child in Web 2.0, whereas Facebook is the equivalent today in the ‘Social Media’ era. |
 | The Web 2.0 Summit Map - The Data Frame Welcome to the 2011 edition of the Web 2.0 Map. This map showcases the incumbents and upstarts in our network economy, gathered around various territories that represent the Web 2.0’s Points of Control. We’ve removed last year’s acquisition mode to make room for a newly minted data layer. |
| “ | Empire Avenue, a stock market for influence, continues to gain interest from brands. | ||
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If there’s one thing the jonin (heads of ninja families) had in spades, it was the long view, the perspective that spanned more than just now or the next…
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Google+ is a different kind of social network, and trying to calculate whether or not you’re a big deal on Google+ is more complicated than a simple headcount of followers.
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