innovation on the cheap!

With all the focus on internet innovators people forget about the oldest of innovators; the craftsman, tradie, mason, DIY Handyman type individuals who come up with innovations on a daily basis.

This video is dedicated to the work of my friend Nathan from Panache Installations who made a custom stand up work station out of scrap for me in an afternoon including multiple prototyping of the the stand up mechanism.

Knowing innovators outside of the tech space has its advantages when customizable tables can easily sit above the $700+ market.

So an ode to tradies across the world who though they could not hack css (and as if they would want to) are creative in so many different levels.




Do you require a web page template to help make a landing page to sell a product?

Do you have basic understanding of:

• HTML
• CSS and Styles

If you answered Yes. Feel free to hack this HTML and CSS to suit your own needs.

The structure is a 1 column, elastic, header, footer and centered.

The content is a mix of:

• elements from my own landing pages
• comments to shape your own sales copy (see html)
• Meta-data pre-rolled for SEO.

Nothing flash just good starting point to

avoid paying marketers and signing up to newsletters on how to make money by marketing to others on how to make money.

Sometime ago, two friends building their internet start-up had to decide on two colour profiles, one themed black the other light green. Flipping back and forth my intuition suggested black represented formal and green flexibility. Recently, I inadvertently came across this slide from Cornell’s consumer behavour course which confirmed my feeling.

Recently, I strung together a couple of lines of code using the codeplex facebook toolkit to create a facebook application that does NOT leverage the social graph and integration points. Funnily enough some people are using it. This suggests people are using facebook not just for the socializing but as a dashboard for all their online dealings. Could Facebook become the “Life Dashboard” that David Lemphers and I dreamed for managing our online engine room?

Just reading the blog of Matt Mullenweg the founder of WordPress.

Matt makes the big call that..”it” is not about technology or design.

I agree, brilliance and adoption of ideas comes from somewhere inside, it is never rationally tangiable, always invisible and slightly out of reach.

How do you align yourself with “it”? I will tell you once I know but you will probably have to be on my death bed to find out.