We can be easily inundated with requests, digital demands, work demands, life demands. Before you know it your week is blocked out with events, meetings and little time for you to stop and smell the roses. We're all guilty of taking on a little too...
Continue ReadingKevin Allocca is YouTube's trends manager, and he has deep thoughts about silly web video. In this talk from TEDYouth, he shares the 4 reasons a video goes viral. (This is the first talk posted from an amazing TEDYouth event. Many others will come on...
Continue ReadingWow, this I need to get, it's simple, affordable and very effective! This visually appealing single piece of moulded material sticks your iPhone to the windshield of your car or to your desk (or any slick surface) without the use of unsightly tape! Reference and more...
Continue ReadingWe interviewed Portable's Creative Director Andrew Apostola about Brisbane's creativity, product design and challenges in design in the coming year. What excites you most about Brisbane's current design / creative industries? We've been following the progress of the Edge over the past few years and have been...
Continue Readinghttp://youtu.be/9h2dF-IsH0I With SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) on the tip of everyone's tongue, Clay Shirky offers a unique point of view on this movement that has the potential to change how we interact, create and view the web. What are your thoughts on SOPA? Is it necessary? Yours, Belinda. ...
Continue ReadingHi February, where did you come from?! This week has turned into a little whirlwind and rather than write a long-read or similar I thought I would share with you all the links I've been squirreling into my Instapaper (if you don't have an account I...
Continue ReadingRecent findings from a number of large scale studies of consumers and their habits suggest that less choice equals more sales. Interestingly, secondary conclusions for this hypothesis suggest that less choice converted to quicker decision processing and therefore greater sale conversion. Could these findings be due to...
Continue ReadingI've been using Pinterest now for only a few weeks and it has become yet another procrastination tool that I have become addicted to! If you haven't seen Pinterest, check it out at www.pinterest.com or better still you can follow my boards @ http://pinterest.com/paul_vb/ BUT now I...
Continue ReadingWhat would you say to your future self if you had the opportunity? Work harder, work less? Tell someone you loved them? Choose a different offer and see what could have been? As Steve Jobs said in his 2005 Stanford Comencement Speech: “We cannot connect...
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