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STAFF BLOG: AN ITINERANT MIND | 1 comment

Fast Food Ads Make For Fat Children?

POSTED BY Saabira Chaudhuri2:00 PM ET

A new study by the National Bureau of Economic Research reveals that a ban on fast food advertising during children's programming would reduce obesity rates in America's youth by 14-18%.

EXPERT BLOG: PROMOTE SUSTAINABLY

Making Sense Of It All: How to Promote Your Brand While Staying Sustainable

POSTED BY Delia Bonfilio1:00 PM ET

Every evening I come home and walk by a mountain of garbage from my building in this otherwise beautiful neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY. It makes me think about my contribution to that, not only on a personal level but a professional ...

STAFF BLOG: GREEN DAY

Test Ride in a Tesla

POSTED BY Anya Kamenetz12:00 PM ET

I’m sipping frothy pumpkin soup concocted by four-star chef Gray Kunz in a pristine white triplex at the Candle Building, 11 Spring Street, which used to be a street-art landmark before it was reborn as eight-figure luxury condos. ...

FEATURE | 1 comment

TechWatch: Buy The BlackBerry Storm

BY Chris Dannen11:00 AM ET

Go ahead - run to a Verizon store on Thursday, November 20th and plunk down your hard-earned $200 for RIM's new touch-screen marvel, the BlackBerry Storm. If you haven't already bought an iPhone from Apple and AT&T, then the Storm ...

EXPERT BLOG: BRAND U BY WENDY MARX

The Sound of Personal Branding

POSTED BY Wendy Marx8:00 AM ET

Some websites need to be arrested for audial assault. You know the ones I mean. No sooner do you click on a URL but the site blasts out some atrocious music that has absolutely nothing to do with the brand. If marketer and music ...

FEATURE | 14 comments

Most Influential Women in Web 2.0

BY Saabira Chaudhuri

We've heard the stats before -- only a quarter of those involved in computer and mathematical occupations are women. And yet, in the ever-evolving world of Web 2.0, women have often been pioneers, redefining the way we interact ...

EXPERT BLOG: WHATEVER IT TAKES

Launching Your Startup: The Reality (Part II)

POSTED BY David Lavenda

So what can you do to prepare for your launch? Here are some concrete suggestions: Get out of stealth mode early – Unless you have some idea that is completely steal-able and you need to launch and grab market share ...

STAFF BLOG: INNOVATE THIS

Even Gazillionaires Get Stuck Behind the Velvet Rope

POSTED BY Sean Ludwig

You’d think that Family Guy creator and burgeoning media mogul Seth MacFarlane would be able to go anywhere and do anything. After all, as we explained in our November cover story, he recently inked a record $100 million production ...

STAFF BLOG: NOT QUITE CONVERSATION

Future Science Now

POSTED BY Kevin Ohannessian

CNN reported today that a woman successfully received a transplant of a section of trachea made from her own stem cells. That's right. Doctors grew her a windpipe grown in a lab. For years, scientists have been saying stem ...