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What is the Big Idea? Israel ranked 14th on the United Nations first World Happiness Report launched on April 2. Topping the list are peaceful and ultra-liberal countries like Denmark, Finland, […]

A previously German-only social media platform, which combines the features of LinkedIn, Quora and a blogging platform, has officially launched in the English-speaking world. 

People tend to see their ideological affiliation as constitutive of their identity in a way their opinion about, say, the ontology of mental illness isn't. 

While working at a start up may have more cultural caché, getting a job at a corporation provides opportunities for leadership and innovation that are already scaled. 

A survey of over 1,200 European business executives yielded five general personality types which differ according to their role in the innovation process. Which do you best fit?

No matter the job, institutions increasingly require applicants to maintain an online presence, whether than means managing content, tweaking a website's design or writing code in earnest. 

The very technology that keeps us constantly connected to work can also create a new understanding of labor in the modern age. The no-hour work week means using technology humanely. 

A new start-up is offering a fast track to satisfying employment by connecting applicants with jobs that offer more emotional fulfillment than a big pay check, though that doesn't hurt.

Nobody tasked with running a business wants to join another social networking platform. Here are some ways to use the platforms you already subscribe to more effectively. 

A new mode of civic engagement in New York City, "participatory budgeting," may help bridge the gap between our country’s foundational principles and our tendency to let ourselves be shepherded by elected leaders. Rousseau would be proud.  

With the passing of Steve Jobs, Amazon's Jeff Bezos is the technology sector's leading CEO-philosopher. Here are some tips directly from the man who continues innovating the Internet.

Facebook has just spent a lot of money to purchase a photo sharing app that costs zero dollars to use and has no source of revenue. That sounds to us a lot like a bubble market. 

Reprinted from PSFK's "Need to Know" magazine In the future, cities will be judged by their generativity.  Over seventy percent of the world’s population, and almost all of the globe’s […]

In today’s post I would to draw some conclusions about language learning based on two studies that reached me recently. The first study is a so-called Language Barometer language learning […]

Guy Kawasaki is the author of ten books, including his latest book, Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions.  For four years he evangelized Macintosh to software and hardware […]

Though Internet freedom is often a nebulous concept, one thing is sure: We want it. Venture capitalist Fred Wilson warns that taking it away will cause a revolt among younger generations. 

Well, he was, according to Jonathan Cohn in the New Republic: What’s more important, for the rest of us, is that Obama corrected and clarified the misstatement one day later. Striking […]

I am trying to sell my house at the moment in a particularly hot local housing market. The market isn’t the only thing that is hot. So is my agent. […]

The Massachusetts Pirate Party is a newly certified political party that represents the rights of citizens to share copyrighted information over the Internet. Would you register as a Pirate?