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Facebook’s noble role as an intelligence-gathering tool for the CIA
Facebook has so many marvelous, fun uses. But, as everyone agrees, the best thing about the social media behemoth is its incredible success as an intelligence-gathering tool for the CIA. In this video by those tireless satirists at The Onion, we marvel over how the government has convinced us that coughing up truckloads of personal information is fun.
Darwin inventor’s simple product hinges — literally — on Kickstarter push
Nick Hanigan, a young man in Darwin, is taking the Kickstarter route to underwrite his invention — a hinge that he’s calls Diaxi. It allows you to open an item and lock it in place with a quarter-turn of a metal tab. Is Diaxi the paper clip of the smartphone age or or is this clip simply a convoluted way of stealing seven minutes of your day?
It’s time to unleash our inner tinkerer, because we’re all makers
Dale Dougherty, co-founder of O’Reilly Media and the man who coined the term “Web 2.0,” posits that we’re all makers, people with the desire — the need — to create and take apart and put back together. It’s another way of expressing the desire to strive, to extend our boundaries, and to have side-splitting fun along the way.
Korea’s Live Park pushes the limits of virtual interaction. But ’4-D’? No.
We’re not sure where marketing people got the bright idea that 4-D is not an expression from a physics book but rather the answer to the question: “What’s more awesome than 3-D?” Live Park 4-D Art Factory, an installation in Korea, expands the boundaries of motion-sensing software. But it doesn’t require an understanding of relativity and spacetime to enjoy.
Innovators, trendsetters and industry leaders often started as hobbyists
In this little video, Tim O’Reilly, co-founder of O’Reilly Media, publisher of Make magazine, reminds us that most successful businesses started from the joy of making something new, or of taking something that already exists and making it better or faster or safer. Did the guy who invented the Slip ‘N’ Slide hope that, primarily, he’d make loads of scratch? Naw, he wanted to expand the idea of a toy his kids enjoyed.
Anthill’s definitive best (Go Ferris!) and worst (Oh, Elton?) of Super Bowl commercials 2012
Call it a cliche. Call it gratuitously opportunistic. Call it what you will. But we know that whenever we run a post featuring a new, popular or funny commercial, your clicking fingers get awfully itchy. (Don’t deny it. We have the stats to prove it.) Hence, here they are, the best and worst of the Super Bowl ads for 2012 (according to Anthill).
OK Go gives new meaning to giving a Chevy a tune-up [VIDEO]
In hindsight, this was a match in some mad, musical heaven: those wacky, inventive rockers OK Go and the over-the-top oeuvre of Super Bowl commercials. Partnering with Chevrolet, they pilot a specially outfitted Sonic through the California desert to bang out a version of their song “Needing/Wanting.”
Heavy-metal sensation, 8-year-old Juliet of Queensland, rocks our socks off
Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead is 66 years old. James Hetfield of Metallica is 48. Never too old for rock ‘n’ roll, right?
Or, apparently, too young. Welcome to the heavy-metal pantheon, Juliet Childs — a product of Queensland, all of 8 years old, and a bonafide music sensation.
Will your work ever match your ambitions? Yes. But it could take a long time. And that’s OK.
So you’re stumped. Up against the wall. That brilliant achievement — that beautiful, iridescent idea — is stuck somewhere in your head and you can’t pry it out. In this video, one of most creative journalists around finds an amazing way to express the rewards you can earn from sticking to your convictions and logging some hard work.
A bunch of accountants drop the spreadsheets and pick up the beat, flash-mob style
You’ve seen better flash mobs than this. We’ve seen better. But here’s what makes this video, done for a corporate end-of-the-year meeting, so awe-inspiring: These are accountants. Accountants. Wow. They can do our books anytime.
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Steve Ballmer vs Alan Greenspan. Product marketing 1985-style [VIDEO]
I’ve always been a little afraid of Steve Ballmer. This video doesn’t help. In 1985, on November 20, Microsoft released Windows 1.0. Steve Ballmer, ever the affable chap, stepped in front of the camera to sell this amazing new product.
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