September 2010
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Ship launch after the winter sleep in the dry dock.
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This got me started on urban cycling.
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Travis Isaacs on making wireframes in Keynote. →
Keynote Kung-Fu: How to wireframe like a ninja
View more presentations from Travis Isaacs.
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Rule I: Submit as Late as Possible
Quirky idea submission rules. How to level the ground: Rule I.
There are as many as 100 submissions per week. These are presented for discussion and voting in a paginated list, 15 submissions / page. This makes 7+ pages to go through. It is easy to see that being on the first page makes your idea more likely to get votes or generate discussions. Ideas on the 3rd, 4th or later pages are easily...
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Influencing The Influencer →
tomewing:
OK here’s the idea:
There are “influencers” who live in the world of “social media”, and if you influence these “influencers” they will say nice stuff about you and your brand will do better.
The reason they are “influencers” is that people who aren’t influencers - let’s call them, oh, “nobodies”, that’s catchy - anyway these nobodies listen to the influencers and spend money on...
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tumblrbot asked: WHERE WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO VISIT ON YOUR PLANET?
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The string bike. Schwinn-Csepel, a hungarian bicycle factory designed a bike without a chain, driven by coiling/uncoiling strings. The major benefit of it is the simplicity. Contrary to how it looks this drive contains far fewer moving parts then a traditional bike drive with multiple gears. Traditional gear changing mechanics are quite complicated and require expert maintenance, otherwise they...
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I.
Okay, here we go. I start my tumblr blog on invention, product design, marketing and the Quirky experiment.
I am a quirky mind. I have dozens of world changing ideas. A day. Everyday. During my last vacation I stumbled upon Quirky, the community design portal. They say you pay to pitch your idea. If they like it, they build it. And if it sells, yo cash in. Sounds great, yes?
So I uploaded my...