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Talenthouse Brings in Nokia, Adidas and Coca-Cola to Sponsor Engagement Platform

Los Angeles-based Talenthouse, a global creative collaboration community with two million members, said that it was launching an “engagement” platform with Adidas’s eyewear, Coca-Cola’s Vitaminwater and Nokia to allow its members to be paired with the mega-brands and be sponsored by them. Talenthouse said that artists will get paid based on engagements that their project and their content generates for those brands, which will be able to “integrate their message directly into the artists’ projects & portfolios and become part of all peer to peer social media conversation.”

Interview: Bill Gates Talks About Tech Innovations for Vaccines Ahead of Global Confab

Solve this: One child every 20 seconds dies from a disease that could have been prevented by an existing vaccine.
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Design Firm Zurb Acquires Forrst, a Community Site for Creatives

Zurb tries its hand at growing a design community.
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Facebook Moving Away From Voting Scheme

A Facebook experiment in democracy is fading.

Demand Media Finally Breaks Away for Good From Lance Armstrong

The race is not always to the swift.
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Burning Man Begins — With Fiery Lawsuit Installation

A legal wildfire rages in the Black Rock Desert.
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Divorce at eHarmony: Founder Takes Back CEO Job from former Zynga Exec Verba

I get it: Not compatible.
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Disney Finally Taps Into the Power of Tap Tap Revenge

What took so long?
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Here’s What Zuckerberg Said to Employees Before Ringing the Opening Bell (Video)

Haven’t gotten enough coverage of Facebook’s initial public offering yet? Here’s a video of CEO Mark Zuckerberg giving a speech to employees before ringing the opening bell on Friday.
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L.A. Stories: HipSwap Tries to Take the Creepy out of Craigslist (Video)

The mobile app-heavy service allows anyone with stuff, including boutique merchants with quirky stuff to move, to quickly snap photos of items, price them and then — presumably — sell.
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