Addicted to Pinterest
I admit it, I’m getting addicted to Pinterest. If you feel the same or, better, if you’re trying to take advantage from a marketing POV of people’s addiction to Pinterest, then you should check out this infographic that the guys at Flowtown recently put together.

Semi-Permanent
Well designers, it’s that time of year again! Have you got your tickets for Semi-Permanent yet? Semi-Permanent is a world leading design conference that to date has hosted 29 events in 9 cities, covering 5 countries, with over 200 speakers and 50,000 attendees. In 2012, Semi-Permanent celebrates ten years of events – that’s a decade [...]

Hell Yeah or No
We can be easily inundated with requests, digital demands, work demands, life demands. Before you know it your week is blocked out with events, meetings and little time for you to stop and smell the roses. We’re all guilty of taking on a little too much but Derek Sivers “Hell Yeah or Hell No” is [...]

Kevin Allocca: Why videos go viral
Kevin Allocca is YouTube’s trends manager, and he has deep thoughts about silly web video. In this talk from TEDYouth, he shares the 4 reasons a video goes viral. (This is the first talk posted from an amazing TEDYouth event. Many others will come on line next month as part of our TED-Ed launch. “In [...]

Interview: Andrew Apostola, Creative Director at Portable
We interviewed Portable’s Creative Director Andrew Apostola about Brisbane’s creativity, product design and challenges in design in the coming year. What excites you most about Brisbane’s current design / creative industries? We’ve been following the progress of the Edge over the past few years and have been really impressed by the space and the opportunities [...]

SOPA: Clay Shirky’s P.O.V
With SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) on the tip of everyone’s tongue, Clay Shirky offers a unique point of view on this movement that has the potential to change how we interact, create and view the web. What are your thoughts on SOPA? Is it necessary? Yours, Belinda. [...]
When in doubt, link
Hi February, where did you come from?! This week has turned into a little whirlwind and rather than write a long-read or similar I thought I would share with you all the links I’ve been squirreling into my Instapaper (if you don’t have an account I highly recommend signing up. Takes all the stress [...]

Cut
Recent findings from a number of large scale studies of consumers and their habits suggest that less choice equals more sales. Interestingly, secondary conclusions for this hypothesis suggest that less choice converted to quicker decision processing and therefore greater sale conversion. Could these findings be due to the time poor nature of consumer habits or [...]



