Bill Gates Wows TED (and me)

The great minds on hand and the great talks at TED continually inform me and make me think about things and problems that are much bigger than myself. But more importantly they move and inspire me. Seeing the work and ideas that these people bring to the table gives me hope that we’ll be able…

Great Moments in Design

I saw this package design featured on TheDieLine.com today and just loved not only the visuals, but the whole idea for the product – Tattoo Tester.  It basically is a home temporary tattoo kit.  Cool idea, great visuals.  Check out the whole post here, or hit the thumbnails to enlarge.

Facebook studying sentiment behavior

I just wanted to link up a good article from Robert Scoble about his catching up with Mark Zuckerberg at Davos.  The obviously talked about all things Facebook, but I was especially interested in their studying of ‘sentiment behavior’.  Interesting concept.  Its basically mapping what people are feeling (guessing by aggrigating the profile update feature).…

Pipl power

TechCrunch.com just posted an article about Pipl which is a new ‘people search’ which I just tried out.  Very Google-esque in its presentation, but the results are pretty creepy. It crawls the ‘deep web‘ which are pages that aren’t publically linked to, as well as MySpace, Facebook, Flickr.  Doesn’t stop there.  I will also dig…

You have no reason not to learn

No doubt about it, I’m def. NOT a professional graphic designer or a professional web designer, or marketer. And you might not be the leader in your industry.  You might be starting a new business or launching a new product where you want to compete in your space.  But don’t know how. Learn. There has…