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OzBargain.com.au
Everyone loves a good bargain. But for all the immediacy in today’s world, it seems harder than ever to find one amid the never-to-be-repeated deals, opportunities to earn unimaginable wealth (hey, I have a pretty fertile imagination) and products that deliver six-pack abs as you eat pizza and drink beer on the couch. While these [...]
Startup School 08
On 19 April, over 650 tech entrepreneurs and students attended the fourth annual free Startup School, held at Stanford University in California. The event, organised by seed venture fund YCombinator, has become a fixture in the West Coast US tech entrepreneur’s calendar. This year’s world-class speakers included Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Marc Andreessen (Netscape/Ning), Greg McAdoo [...]
A guide to business development 2.0
Over the past five years, Anthill has made a point of writing about new and effective ways of conducting business. The underlying message has always been: the rules of business have changed – businesses must adapt or perish. In our hyper-connected world, success usually boils down to the degrees of connection to your goals. We [...]
15 unfortunately placed ads
We’re fans of the site Ads of the world, which tracks the most innovative and witty advertising across all mediums. If you are at all interested in advertising, it’s well worth perusing. But if you’re looking for a real giggle, our website of the week is a blog post dedicated to professional advertising ruined (or [...]
Unusual business card designs
If you’ve ever seen the movie American Psycho (based on Brett Easton Ellis’s extremely dark novel), you will surely remember the “business card” scene in which Manhattan investment banker and surreptitious serial killer Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) engages in a business-card-off with colleagues. (Scene embedded below.) While Bateman’s taste was decidedly minimalist, many people go [...]
HEMA – More than greets the eye
We recently stumbled on an acute example of just how appealing (and viral) a creatively designed shopping website can be. Dutch Company HEMA presents what at first glance appears to be a conventional ‘shop window’ product catalogue. But wait a few second and watch the magic kick in.
23andMe.com
Until recently, having your DNA tested meant you were either under scrutiny from the law, uncertain of your parentage or concerned that you were predisposed to life-threatening disease. Not the rosiest group of scenarios. Now, American company 23andMe is offering a Personal Genome Service to thoroughly analyse your DNA… for fun. All you need to [...]
StreetAdvisor.com
So you’ve had enough of the dog next door barking all night, not to mention the techno music two doors down. And, what’s that, it’s the third time this year someone has broken into your car? Now you can share your inside knowledge about your street/neighbourhood online and research the opinions of candid locals in [...]
Save the world, one grain at a time
FreeRice is an online game that does more than test the rectitude of your lexicon. For every word you correctly define (multiple choice), the UN’s World Food Programme donates 20 grains of rice to needy people somewhere around the globe. Money to buy and distribute the rice is provided by companies advertising on the website.
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