Fast CompanyWhere ideas and people meetWe can best solve the climate change problem by taxing what we burn, not what we earn.- (Found July 23, 2008 ) Nobel laureate and former US vice-president Al Gore recently made a speech advocating that Americans abandon fossil fuels completely over the next ten years. His solution is that the price of carbon-based energy include the costs of the environmental damage it causes. I have long supported a sharp reduction in payroll taxes with the difference made up in CO2 taxes. We should tax what we burn, not what we earn. This is the single most important policy change we can make.http://www.fastcompany.com/big-idea/we-can-best-solve-climate-change-problem-taxing-what-w... "Venture Capital confidence has declined so rapidly in Silicon Valley that the start-up community is now in crisis."- (Found July 23, 2008 ) Mark Cannice, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of San Francisco School of Business and Management, has been surveying venture capitalists' confidence in the future high-growth entrepreneurial environment. His most recent survey shows that confidence has declined to a new all time low. "The situation is concerning enough to be characterized as a capital markets crisis for the start-up community," writes the National Venture Capital Association.http://www.fastcompany.com/big-idea/venture-capital-confidence-has-declined-so-rapidly-sil... 10 Web 2.0 Ideas that Failed- (Found July 23, 2008 ) The Web is an extremely fickle place. A Web service can be hot today, and dead in the water tomorrow. While there's no true science for determining exactly what makes one stick while another languishes, there's a lot to be learned after one fails. Considering a startup Here are 10 recent failures to add to your case studies.http://www.fastcompany.com/articles/2008/07/10-web-ideas-that-failed.html?partner=rss "The much hyped iPhone is so far behind other smartphones with all-important applications, that it will never catch up."- (Found July 23, 2008 ) Apple has made its platform accessible so developers can more easily create iPhone applications the Apple store will carry more than 500 of these. A wise move on Jobs's part: his personal computers have been said to not dominate partly because developers did not write as many programs for them as for Windows machines.http://www.fastcompany.com/big-idea/much-hyped-iphone-so-far-behind-other-smartphones-all-... Fast Talk Question - Will Twitter ever rival Paypal, with money transferred via tweets- (Found July 23, 2008 ) Will Twitter ever rival Paypal, with money transferred via tweetshttp://www.fastcompany.com/fast-talk-question/fast-talk-question-will-twitter-ever-rival-p... It's unrealistic and unfair to expect developing nations like China and India to subscribe to the same emissions cap goals as d- (Found July 23, 2008 ) This week, climate change issues brought together sixteen nations, both developed and developing, and the EU, to discuss long-term goals for cutting global greenhouse gas emissions. A long-term emissions goal was not agreed upon by all countries as hoped, as developing and developed countries were firmly divided on who should bear more responsibility.http://www.fastcompany.com/bigidea/%E2%80%9Cits-unrealistic-and-unfair-expect-developing-n... Fast Talk Question-Will Hasbros strategy of launching a Facebook version of Scrabble effectively quash Scrabulouss popularity- (Found July 23, 2008 ) Will Hasbros strategy of launching a Facebook version of Scrabble effectively quash Scrabulouss popularityhttp://www.fastcompany.com/fast-talk-question/fast-talk-question-will-hasbro%E2%80%99s-str... A Kick In The Career: What Do You Do When You're Branded- (Found July 23, 2008 )http://www.fastcompany.com/articles/2008/06/what-do-you-do-when-you-are-branded.html?partn... "If Congress protects records about what movies you rent and TV channels you watch, it should equally protect records about what- (Found July 23, 2008 ) Google was recently mandated under court order to turn over records of activity on YouTube, such as the user names and IP addresses of video watchers, because Viacom claimed that YouTube users were guilty of copyright infringement. Viacom could technically use this information to sue individual YouTube users. While individuals are protected from having information about the movies they rent, the TV channels the watch, and of course financial and medical information, given out, the same...http://www.fastcompany.com/bigidea/if-congress-protects-records-about-what-movies-you-rent... Fast Talk Question- Is the world's economy really "growing" or is it just shifting its growth locations to developing countries- (Found July 23, 2008 ) Is the world's economy really "growing" or is it just shifting its growth locations to developing countrieshttp://www.fastcompany.com/fast-talk-question/fast-talk-question-worlds-economy-really-gro... |