Bright Ideas Brilliant Minds - Tools for Exploring Creativity, Open Learning & Human Potential
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Bright Ideas Brilliant Minds
Discover hundreds of cool sites for inventions and innovations that make life a little better. The resources are particularly suited to vocations involving Design, Technology, Education, Media, Philanthropy, Research and Development.

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Videos: The Big Picture Show
Brilliant Books for Bright Ideas
Books to stimulate your creative juices and enhance productivity.
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
Freakonomics establishes this unconventional premi more...1 point
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Web Tools & Services
shared resources
Coolhunting Bank
Sites for fashion trends, innovative design and style.
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domain.com
Domain names info $1.99 com $8.452 points
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Gadgets NewsFix | Addictomatic
Addict-o-matic searches the best live sites on the more...1 point
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Trendguide.com
An open-source lifestyle trend database with ranki more...0 points
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Amazon Deals at DealScans
The best Amazon Deals and price drops recently fou more...0 points
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thecoolhunter.net
Covers happening movements, styles and trends in g more...0 points
Creativity Tools Bank
Resources and tools to assist creative work, - the generation of ideas, images and/or solutions.
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Brain Fitness Programs
Brain sharping online, the only personalized brain more...2 points
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The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun
Watch The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun, fr more...1 point
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Unselfish Marketer - Dig DEEP In My Pockets..!
I'll Buy What You Want!1 point
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Oblique Strategies
Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies card set reimplemen more...0 points
Crowdsourcing & Outsourcing Bank
Services for finding creative workers and job offers.
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crowdSPRING - Global marketplace for logo design, business card design, graphic design and website design
Creatives worldwide contribute designs for your pr more...0 points
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Elance - Outsourcing
Outsourcing to Freelance programmers, copywriters, more...0 points
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oDesk - Outsource to Freelancers, IT Companies, Programmers, Web Designers
A global service marketplace for small and medium more...0 points
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99designs » Leading Designer Marketplace for Logo Designs and More
Need something designed? Choose a winning design f more...0 points
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ScriptLance.com Custom Freelance Programming. Outsource web projects to programmers and designers.
Outsource your projects to freelance programmers a more...0 points
Data Bank
Collective knowledge databases
Resources for exploring and sharing all kinds of statistical and factual data.
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Environment Bank
Enviromental issues, green news, climate change.
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The Environment Lensography
A lensography of the best lenses about pollution, more...1 point
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Why Vegetarian? The Environment & cruelty to animals
There are several reasons. The main ones for me ha more...1 point
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TreeHugger
A one-stop shop for green news, solutions, and pro more...0 points
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New Scientist Environment
International news, ideas and innovations.0 points
FOSS Bank
Resources for Free and Open Source Software.
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Wikipedia - Free and open source software
Background information and links to FOSS resources more...0 points
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NOSI - NonProfit Open Source Initiative
Bridging the gap between the nonprofit and open so more...0 points
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Aspiration | Better Tools for a Better World
Connects nonprofits to software solutions that hel more...0 points
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Ohloh, the open source network
An open source directory that anyone can edit. Fea more...0 points
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Open Source Alternative
Recommends open source software alternatives to co more...0 points
Gadgets Bank
Cast your votes for the coolest gadgets on Amazon. Share favorite products and learn more about this widget at the Gadgetzon lens.
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SanDisk Sansa Fuze 8 GB MP3 Player
Digital media player, FM radio, voice recorder. Fl more...1 point
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Archos 705 Wi-Fi Portable Media Player (160 GB)
Wireless portable media player with 7" Touch more...1 point
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Cube World Series 1: Slim & Scoop
CUBEWORLD SERIES #1 (SLIM &amp more...0 points
Human Intelligence Bank
Resources on the nature of human intelligence, consciousness, psychology and related fields.
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Lumosity - Brain Fitness and Memory Improvement
Scientifically designed brain training program imp more...0 points
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Genius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Collaborative knowledge base.0 points
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MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
CCI's basic research question is: How can people a more...0 points
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Bruce Eisner's Vision Thing
Eclectic mix of consciousness, psychedelics, news, more...0 points
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CBS News, TIME Partner For Brain Series
A five-part series of short articles exploring the more...0 points
Ideas Bank
Resources for exploring and sharing ideas.
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logo usb drives
logo usb drives6 points
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Springwise
New business ideas for entrepreneurial minds.1 point
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Top 50 Things To Do To Stop Global Warming
List of 50 things that everybody should do to help more...1 point
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SomeRightsReserved : Digital Downloads & Stuff
Download digital blueprints to design, art, music more...1 point
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Global : Ideas : Bank
The Global Ideas Bank contains over 4,000 edited b more...0 points
Imaginary Masterminds
A growing collection of interesting ideas from creative people. Exploring the Internet, creativity, longtail economics, open culture, copyright issues, and future media trends. Video playlist at Youtube/DISSmedia
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How To Be Creative by Hugh MacLeod
MacLeod highlights the value of authenticity and h more...1 point
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Wicked Whammy - Music Needs Management
Future of music industry and Internet music market more...1 point
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How to Become a Creative Genius - Lifehack.org
Six tips for expanding your creativity.0 points
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David Byrne's Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists and Megastars
Today's artists have surprising new ways to reach more...0 points
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Kevin Kelly -- Better Than Free
Eight things that are better than free.0 points
Media Filter Bank
Resources that filter, distribute and reblog audio, video and other media types.
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Throw away your TV Video Archive
Highlights informative, educational and cultural v more...0 points
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Whats New at the Internet Archive
Team blog highlighting items from the Movies, Audi more...0 points
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University Channel - Webstreams
A collection of university lectures, panels, and c more...0 points
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Open Culture: Smart Talks - Leading Thinkers in Multi-Media
Provides direct access to audio and video presenta more...0 points
Open Education Bank
Institutions and associated organisations offering free educational courses and tutorials (OCW).
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Social Network for eLearning - Free Online Courses | schooX
schooX is a Social Network for eLearning and Knowl more...3 points
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Internet Archive: Open Educational Resources (Beta)
A collection of educational content including cour more...1 point
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Netcohort Institute
Peer to Peer Education - P2Pedu <br /><br more...1 point
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Bastiat Free University - student directed learning for visionaries
Starting before kindergarten, college degrees are more...1 point
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MIT OpenCourseWare
A free and open educational resource (OER) for edu more...0 points
Philanthropy Bank
Resources for charitable causes, fund raising activities, human welfare, human rights, volunteering, sponsorship, giving and benevolent activities.
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How To Raise Money For Charity
Raising money to support your favorite cause is a more...1 point
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TFSR - Tools for Self Reliance
Works with local organisations in poor African cou more...0 points
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The 59 Smartest Orgs Online
The 59 smartest nonprofit organizations online tod more...0 points
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Ninemillion.org
A UN Refugee Agency led campaign to raise awarenes more...0 points
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Jikolp.com - Donate to Charity Just by Searching the Web!
A google powered search where 50% of all revenue g more...0 points
Give a little...
Solutions Bank
Community driven resources for finding answers to questions.
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10 Free People Search Tips
Free people search tips to help you find past frie more...1 point
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People Search
People search and public record directory.1 point
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Yahoo! Answers: Get answers, ask questions, find information
Yahoo! Answers is a new way to find and share info more...0 points
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Ask MetaFilter | Community Weblog
Questions and answers area of the Metafilter commu more...0 points
Tech Labs Bank
Tech research and development projects.
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Google Labs
Google's technology playground showcases ideas tha more...0 points
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Mashable! Labs
Social networking 2.0 developments and analysis.0 points
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del.icio.us labs
Bookmarked pages tagged with &amp;quot;lab more...0 points
Webware Bank
Web-based applications, mashups and online tools.
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List of White Label (Applications you can Rebrand) Social Networking Platforms
Social Networking platforms or suites that you cou more...0 points
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Webware: Cool Web apps for everyone
A site where computer users can learn about new an more...0 points
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Ning - create your own social networks
An online service where you can create, customize, more...0 points
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10 Web Apps To Build The Next Big Thing Without Writing Any Code
SitePoint's 10 solutions which range from common, more...0 points
Idea Streams
innovations, lifehacks, products
Ideas in the Blogosphere
- How Could New Ideas Change Education
- I had no idea what Kenny would share with me. A visit with him is serendipitous as Kenny is MTVN's ?cool hunter? guy. He fixes weird things. He finds new models. So, what was on Kenny's mind? ...
- Ideas for Cities: Edible Schoolyard | GOOD
- Edible Schoolyard Cities should provide service opportunities and training for all ages to instill confidence, self-reliance, and pride. One of these programs.
- FDL Action » Really, Peter Orszag!?! Your Critics Have No Ideas ...
- These ideas are not radical or untested. All of them (except the exclusionary period for biosimilars) are being used in this country and/or other countries to reduce cost. These are all proven cost control solutions. ...
- Creating Online Business Ideas | Knowledge Base eDynamo
- Within this article today on creating online business ideas, we will be giving you a few different websites to get yourself thinking. When you are thinking.
Delicious Ideas
Amazon for Innovations
Delicious Lifehacks
Popular productivity tips.
Videos: How things are made
Reader Tools
Amazon Kindle, free texts, self-publishing tools
Amazon Kindle Demo
Free E-Books & Text Publishing Tools
Download books or publish your own works
YouPublish - Allows you to share and sell your own creative works online. Discover new and free creative works.
100 Awesome Search Engines for Bibliophiles Useful resources for book lovers.
100+ Sources for Free-As-In-Beer Books & Texts Online
A Beginners Guide to Ebooks
E-book Reader Matrix - Comparison table of current e-book readers.
Free eBooks Blog
Free Kindle Books and Free EBooks Online
Wikipedia: E-book - General information and useful links.
LaterLoop + Kindle = Awesome - A handy way to save and read web texts on your Kindle reader.
Amazon Kindle - Amazon's innovative wireless reading device and accessories.
Creative Commons News
The latest Free Culture news, tools and copyright announcements from the Creative Commons weblog.
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Creative Commons Video Showcase
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Discover, explore and share Creative Commons videos. Learn how Creative Commons licenses can help you avoid the problems current copyright laws create for the sharing of information. Quickly access useful CC resources, news and developments for your...
Further Resources
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David Holmes - Lensography and Lifestreams
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Dave's Tagfoot Stream
Social bookmarks and media links
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Do As Squid Do : A Simple Guide to Using Squidoo.com
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Learn about Squidoo life and the lure of the lens as seen through the eyes of the community. Discover what makes the Squidoo network buzz and how you can use Squidoo to promote awareness of group initiatives, personal projects, cool products and usef...
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Widget Finder : A Map for the Widgetsphere
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An easy way to find the widgets you want and the gadgets you need. Discover the best tools to build your blog, feed your space and pump up your PC. Widgets are tools that make it easy for you to customize your web pages, desktops or mobile devices w...
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Feed Pitstop - RSS Tools & Services for Web Feed Management
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A one-stop lens for Web feed discovery, management and promotion. Tune-in to the latest web buzz, generate customized content channels, distribute your own media using the right RSS tools and services. A comprehensive RSS hub for daily news and tool...
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Freesounds : Digital Audio Tools, Sound Sample Collections, Open Music Resources
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A guide to free sound solutions for Digital Audio Editing, Music Creation, and Podcasting. Providing links to free audio applications, sound samples and loops, legal music you can download, share, reuse and remix. Easily find musical works, software...
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Windows Live Tools : Explore the MS Windows Platform, Web Services & Desktop Applications
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Breaking news and useful resources for Windows Live web services. Quickly access all Windows Live applications, free downloads, developer sites, blog feeds and frequently used tools. Learn about the Windows Vista operating system and future developm...
Community Feedback
Say hello, share your own ideas and give us your opinions. Let us now what type of resources you would like to see more of and what you find most useful. Leave your recommendations for related tools and similar projects.
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- JaguarJulie JaguarJulie Oct 24, 2009 @ 9:14 am
- Wow! My dear, this is quite an amazing resource -- don't know why it has taken me far too long to find your lens. Well done.
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- Jack_Bergstrand Jack_Bergstrand Aug 13, 2009 @ 10:10 pm
- Great lens! You've amassed a wealth of information and resources here. I'd love for you to visit my lens and say hello when you get the chance.
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- DavidHolmes DavidHolmes Jul 5, 2009 @ 3:41 pm
- @switch: I've changed the link as requested, thanks for the update.
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- switch switch Jul 5, 2009 @ 2:13 pm
- hi David, thanks for the mention of my blog in your lens - under Free Ebooks and Text Publishing Resources (#7 link)
you've named it 'free kindle books and free ebooks online'.
could you please chang the the url to reflect the new site address i.e. http://ireaderreview.com/2008/01/19/free-books-for-the-amazon-kindle/
it would really help with search engines.
thanks
abhi
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- Marelisa Marelisa Jun 9, 2009 @ 9:26 pm
- Lots of interesting stuff here, thank you.
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