1. Cadburys art (Taken with instagram)

    Cadburys art (Taken with instagram)

  2. Pinterest mental

    When I first saw pinterest, all I thought was, this is essentially a Tumblr theme. A Tumblr theme with a similar widget for clipping content to your site. Surely, by having such low barriers to competition and how great Tumblr’s social platform is for people who like to share, this is a passing fad.

    It looks like I couldn’t be more wrong. I’ve just read their latest round values the business at a bat shit crazy $1 billion. I just didn’t see them getting enough traction to make them an affiliate giant that would benefit Amazon.

    That’s more than the current market valuation of the New York Times.

    Learning that I’m wrong 98.476% of the time is nothing new. However, I have learnt from Pinterest showing genuine insight into their target audience and delivering a simple user experience to match.

  3. This week I attended a talk on creativity by Jonah Lehrer, Wired contributor and author of ‘Imagine’, at the Southbank centre. His insight into being successfully creative took me by surprise. He champions grit as a fundamental part of the process and one of the few, if not the only element, directly correlated to consistently executing creatively.  Referencing Gladwell et al, he alluded to the 10,000 hours required of experts/masters, with talent only able to marginally reduce this number.  So, more evidence that hard work beats talent, when talent doesn’t work hard. There might be hope for me yet!

    This week I attended a talk on creativity by Jonah Lehrer, Wired contributor and author of ‘Imagine’, at the Southbank centre.

    His insight into being successfully creative took me by surprise. He champions grit as a fundamental part of the process and one of the few, if not the only element, directly correlated to consistently executing creatively. 

    Referencing Gladwell et al, he alluded to the 10,000 hours required of experts/masters, with talent only able to marginally reduce this number. 

    So, more evidence that hard work beats talent, when talent doesn’t work hard. There might be hope for me yet!

  4. I saw this Google+ Advert last night and I was really impressed. Although slightly different in style, it reminds me of a sentimental Apple ad. So I thought copying Apple and Facebook and Twitter is a good idea.

    Then I remembered that most of my friends are not on Google+ and have no interest in it, so I went back to Facebook and Twitter.

  5. I think the fact he didn’t care was the most shocking part!

    robsheridan:

    The BBC tracks down an internet troll (of the worst variety) and confronts him on the street.

    (Source: twitter.com)

  6. This still makes me laugh

    parislemon:

    “Let’s see how the competition goes…”

    Just to beat a dead horse, after seeing the post noting Apple’s iPhone business now brings in more revenue than all of Microsoft’s businesses combined, Jason Hiner reminded me of Steve Ballmer’s classic 2007 video laughing off the iPhone announcement (above).

    To be fair to Ballmer, he does say that selling a $500 fully-subsidized phone is insane, and Apple did end up dropping the price, which has fueled sales. Still, the business argument sounds like something RIM would (and did) make. How’s that working out for them now?

    As for “I like our strategy, I like it a lot” — there’s simply no excuse. Windows Mobile was quickly exposed for the turd it was, and Windows Phone, while good, was far too late. But 2007 wasn’t all bad for Ballmer…

  7. For someone who likes taking photos but is pretty clueless at it (like me!), this cheat sheet I found on Lifehacker is awesome (from livinginthestills.tumblr.com - as it says on it).

    For someone who likes taking photos but is pretty clueless at it (like me!), this cheat sheet I found on Lifehacker is awesome (from livinginthestills.tumblr.com - as it says on it).

  8. Why Not Try An Infinity-Day Window? →

    Exactly

    parislemon:

    Matt Drance on Warner Bros. idiotic new 56-day DVD rental window:

    Also under this new deal, pirated movies remain free of charge, free of non-skippable ads, free of five-minute load times, and are now nearly three months ahead of the competition.

    And:

    iTunes changed the music industry because it was more convenient than stealing. Most people made the value judgment that ten bucks for a clean, legal digital album was worth the alternative of fishing around for files that may or may not be damaged or infected.

    It’s really — honestly — surprising that Hollywood doesn’t understand such a simple concept. Even stranger is that they can look to the music industry as an example and learn from the mistakes there, but they refuse.

    Hollywood isn’t going to die anytime soon — but it won’t be from lack of trying. The pain is coming. In a big way. 

  9. This Startup Embraces The Idea That Everyone Fails →


    Founders@Fail began with one simple principle: mistakes are inevitable. Nobody emerges with the perfect idea and executes flawlessly — not even Steve Jobs.

    The purpose of our community…

  10. Young fan boy (Taken with instagram)

    Young fan boy (Taken with instagram)