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So, you already know that everything is connected to everything else, right? Now, be prepared to look at just how complex all of these connections are. Principal UX Lead at the search engine Bing, Manuel Lima, shows us how the tree of knowledge really no longer applies. This is why creating a site map for your website is really tricky.

At a cocktail party, Joshua Klein got into a conversation with a friend who wanted to eradicate crows from his garden. Klein thought there had to be a better way to solve this situation than just killing the crows. Then, the magic words that so many entrepreneurs love to hear, were spoken.

Have you ever watched skateboarders and wondered, how did they even know that trick could be done? Rodney Mullen takes the stage at TEDxUSC to explain how context provides the opportunity to create content. It's what you already know that allows you to push beyond that, and create something new and remarkable.

Despite being surrounded by technology and gadget, when it comes to meetings, I still like to write. Granted, it's illegible to anyone else because I do spend 90% of my time typing. I dislike typing on my iPad in meetings. I find it distracts me from the meeting. Yet, I can easily write with ease. Enter Collusion, a cracking product designed by locals and now seeking Kickstarter funding.

Normally when we say something is a little salty at Anthill, we're referring to the use of certain, shall we say, creative words. Words that may make your mum blush; or they may not. It depends on your mum. But in this video, salt takes on a whole new meaning. It becomes the most astonishing artistic medium.

Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. You might think it's a long way down to the chemist, but that's just peanuts compared to space. And oddly, peanuts is about the same amount of funding that NASA receives to continue exploring space. Yet, without space exploration, we have no perspective on ourselves.

Some stories of commercial creativity and innovation simply make you feel proud to Australian. This is one of them. After the the GFC, HydroCo expanded its treadmill range to include products for dogs and horses. (Its product for the latter is called 'ThoroughTread'. Boom-cha!) Of course, people also race Camels, right? And during racing, Camels suffer from injury in the same way as race horses do! So, here it is; an Australian underwater treadmill for camels.

On 25 April, Google released its latest ranking algorithm, now called the Penguin Update (for reasons known only to Google). Since then, the same set of five to eight recommendations have arrived in my personal inbox from a number of reputable sources. They are supposed to describe factors that seem to help search engine rankings post-Penguin. However, to be frank, most of these recommendations don't seem like anything new. In fact, they only seem to reinforce what people who have a basic understanding of SEO already know. And one recommendation seems downright wrong.

This one is for the backpacker in all of us. That sun-kissed specimen who treads lightly on the surface of the globe, travelling with little luggage and luxury... albeit often at the expense of personal hygiene. Ashley Newland faced the usual dilemma before undertaking a climb of Mt. Kilimanjaro. He came up with a solution that would allow for effective laundry washing while on the road. Behold the Scrubba Wash Bag -- an innovation whose design, efficiency and progressive vision have earned it this year's highest honour in the Anthill SMART 100.

While there's something undoubtedly 'undergraduate' about this video published yesterday by the Melbourne lads from Juice Media (a university researcher and an English teacher), it demonstrates what a game-changing force YouTube and the blogosphere have become. It's amateurish and heavy handed. And, for this reason, it is its own best argument for the censorship it rails against.

Throw away your keyboard. Discard your mouse. All you need to do to control your computer is wave your hands about. No instruction manual needed, just a teeny, tiny device that reads your hand motions. Really. The revolution in human-computer interaction just took a massive leap forward.

What do shopping trolleys, Free Willy and the mouse for the Apple Mac have in common? Well, it's the stunning design process that IDEO used to design these, well sort of, every day items. Some people may have a need for an every day killer whale.

It seems like only yesterday we were reporting on the opening of the NSW Government supported StartupHouse all the way over in nerd mecca, Silicon Valley. And yet last month NSW Trade & Investment named the first four early-stage technology companies due to gain access to international business opportunities while being nestled on the incubator’s geeky bosom. In this short video, Robert G.S. Lambert (we can only assume that his middle initials stand for 'Goin' Stellar') takes a virtual tour through Startup House and introduces some of its newest tenants.

an you believe it? YouTube is seven years old. It seems like only yesterday that it had just a few thousand videos. Yet, it's also one of those strange situations where it's hard to remember life before YouTube.

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.

oshua Foer was once just a science journalist for publications like National Geographic, Slate, and the New York Times. After a year of exploring ancient memory training, he can add accidental U.S. Memory Champion to his list of accomplishments. If he can do it, anyone can.

Remember the time that someone, be it a teacher, friend, classmate, parent or a complete random stranger, shattered your creative confidence. You were told your drawing looked nothing like a castle. Or maybe that your idea would never work. As an entrepreneur, you can face this situation often.

A QR code built in Lego. I like it already. But the QR code itself is a suggestion of something that could be built. Plus, the code takes you directly to an online store where you can buy the bricks. Really, what's not to like about this genius advertising campaign.

It’s a tough economy out there.   Not the actual economy silly, the attention economy. Well, for all you bored and disenfranchised folks who’ve seen it all; here’s an advertising campaign that takes ‘attention-grabbing’ to the next level. With an emphasis on the grabbing. And the attention.

It's just something that you don't want to see. While the 404 message, and its cousins, are a part of the system that makes the internet the magnificent thing that it is, it does mean something is wrong. Suddenly, your happy online experience is broken.