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Waiting for the great leap forward? I think it’s already here [VIDEO]
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.
How navel oranges fetched Aussie Farmers Direct an award for marketing innovation
With prices so low, not even covering the cost of picking them, the Australian home delivery food group came up a plan to sell oranges. A lot of oranges. In fact, this campaign resulted in the sale of more than one million extra oranges than the previous year.
The first rule of business: embrace failure
The world of business, in my opinion, is complex yet basic, exciting yet exhausting. Often it presents problems and challenges that make us question our self belief and capabilities.
Why you should fail often, in order to succeed sooner [VIDEO]
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.
Get it off your chest. A forum for workplace rants (or, perhaps, raves)
WorkplaceFit is the result of the personal experiences and motivations of its founders — Donald and Fabian Mendes, an IT consultant. Both, separately, discovered in unnamed jobs that the “workplace cultures were not what we had expected, resulting in a frustrating and un-motivating working experience.”
From Sydney to Silicon Valley – NSW startups target growth through collaboration
It seems like only yesterday we were reporting on the opening of NSW Government-funded StartupHouse all the way over in nerd mecca, Silicon Valley.
Happy birthday YouTube. Check out how this one crazy idea changed our world [VIDEO]
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.
How to turn your knowledge into products [WEBINAR RECORDING]
On 23 May 2012, Anthill Magazine’s James Tuckerman recorded the following webinar with Daniel Priestley, serial entrepreneur, best-selling author and the creator of the Key Person of Influence coaching program. The topic: How to turn your knowledge into products… and build a global empire in your underpants. [One Hour] Watch the webinar Get the extra [...]
Everyone hates a slow queue. Most hate a slow server even more. Online retailers need to get up to speed. Quickly.
To paraphrase an old sporting phrase about winning, speed is not everything when it comes to online shopping. It’s the only thing. The results of a survey suggest the online shopper is one in a hurry – tearing hurry, perhaps.
To earn online, go for BPO, mobile apps or open standards web development, but lay off the SEO and Flash, says Freelancer survey
When the economy gets tough, providing services over the Internet just gets better, according to a survey from Freelancer.com for the first quarter of 2012. The number of jobs listed rose from 140,000 to 170,000 in the first quarter of 2012. Some roles are star performers.
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