Bright Ideas Brilliant Minds - A Hub for Exploring Creativity & Human Potential

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Welcome to Bright Ideas Brilliant Minds

The hub for sharing web-based tools and services that focus on boosting your creativity, knowledge, and productivity. Offering insight on how imagination and creative thinking transform the world we live in.

Explore hundreds of useful sites for new ideas, innovations, and inventions that make life a little better.

Discover top resources for communications, data, design, education, philanthropy, social media, and technology.

Follow the most popular Idea Streams for creative inspiration and tap into the social media buzzscape.

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Participation and list building

Everyone can contribute to the Plexo link lists to help build and share relevant data. The lists can be embedded on web pages, subscribed to using RSS feeds and shared freely. Plexos can easily be combined on lenses and webpages to create new data bank mashups and crowdsourcing resources. Users can rate links they value highly to spread good Karma!

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Video Streams

The Big Picture Show

Interesting points of view

A feature video spot for interesting ideas and global insights.
Kevin Kelly: Predicting the next 5,000 days of the web
by TEDtalksDirector | video info

684 ratings | 130,006 views
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Daniel Pink on the surprising science of motivation
by TEDtalksDirector | video info

7,637 ratings | 1,270,297 views
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Book Recommendations

Brilliant Books for Bright Ideas

Recommended reading for creative inspiration

Top books to stimulate your creative juices, increase awareness and enhance productivity.

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

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

Mind Hacks: Tips & Tools for Using Your Brain (Hacks) by Tom Stafford

Mind Hacks: Tips & Tools for Using Your Brain (Hacks) by Tom Stafford

A collection of experiments, tricks, & more...0 points

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Web Tools & Services

shared resources

Gadgets Bank

Recommended gadgets found on Amazon

Cast your votes for the coolest gadgets on Amazon. Share favorite products and learn more about this widget at the Gadgetzon lens.

Nintendo Wii

Nintendo Wii

MODEL- WII VENDOR- NINTENDO FEATURES- Wii Console more...2 points

Apple TV

Apple TV

Take movies, TV shows, music, photos and podcasts more...1 point

SanDisk Sansa Fuze 8 GB MP3 Player

SanDisk Sansa Fuze 8 GB MP3 Player

Digital media player, FM radio, voice recorder. Fl more...1 point

Archos 705 Wi-Fi Portable Media Player (160 GB)

Archos 705 Wi-Fi Portable Media Player (160 GB)

Wireless portable media player with 7" Touch more...1 point

Cube World Series 1: Slim & Scoop

Cube World Series 1: Slim & Scoop

CUBEWORLD SERIES #1 (SLIM &amp more...0 points

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The Squidoo Charity Fund has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for charity. Thanks to the Squidoo community, we've built schools in Cambodia, given underprivileged classrooms computers and software, funded important reseach against Juvenile Diabetes

Idea Streams

innovations, lifehacks, products

Ideas in the Blogosphere

Commentary focusing on ideas & innovations

Tracking blog posts and conversations about creative thinking and novel ideas.
Tenuous funding ideas highlight state budget proposal
The provisions, including some ideas initially pushed by the Jindal administration, were used by the Senate Finance Committee this week to piece together its version of next year's more than $25 billion operating budget and reverse some House-backed ...
Tim Cook: Apple will show off 'cool ideas' for Siri in coming months
But he hinted that Apple is nowhere near done with its development, stating the company has "some cool ideas about what Siri can do." "I think Siri has proven that voice is something people want to do," he said in an interview at the D10 conference on ...
Turning Ideas Into Businesses On Etsy
Have you ever had an idea that you wanted to sell something but didn't know if you had the time to make it work? There is a small website, Etsy, that is allowing do-it-yourselfers to sell in their free time. Some people in the Heartland are using the ...
My 5 Best Investment Ideas
There are dozens of bargains out there at the moment, and personally, I am bubbling with investment ideas. If only I had the spare cash to buy into them! For anyone who is just thinking about starting out as an investor, this is the ideal time to build ...

Flickr Ideas

Design Ideas for your Porch or Patio seminar by The Greenery Nursery
Design Ideas for your Porch or Patio seminar by The Greenery Nursery
Design Ideas for your Porch or Patio seminar by The Greenery Nursery
Design Ideas for your Porch or Patio seminar by The Greenery Nursery
Design Ideas for your Porch or Patio seminar by The Greenery Nursery
Road trip plan for West Texas by TheSeafarer
11 by TEDxTrondheim
Autodesk IDEAS by jurvetson
Germinating Ideas by .::RMT::.
Cloud fishing by HikingArtist.com
OMG FUNNNY - Leura by Nina Matthews Photography
4 Simple and Easy Nail Art Designs: Red Nail Ideas for Beginners by DIYNailArtDesigns
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Amazon for Innovations

Ideas and home innovations on Amazon. Mouse over the images for full descriptions.
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Delicious Lifehacks

Videos: How things are made

Interesting videos showing how things are made and the special production processes involved. The study of manufacturing companies will help you to grasp the importance of process in other areas of thinking.
How It's Made - Flute
by elbobo1979 | video info

1,277 ratings | 978,460 views
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Reader Tools

Kindle, free texts, self-publishing

Amazon Kindle Demo

The Amazon Kindle
by mhyatt18 | video info

200 ratings | 320,001 views
curated content from YouTube

Free E-Books & Text Publishing Tools

Download books or publish your own works

All about electronic books and where to find them...

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.
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Creative Commons News

The latest Free Culture news, tools and copyright announcements from the Creative Commons weblog.
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Dave's Tagfoot Stream

Social bookmarks and media links

Tagfoot is a revenue-sharing bookmark service and social network. It allows you to share videos, photos, news, blurbs, products, links, and more.

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  • yano_jl Nov 3, 2011 @ 2:37 pm | delete
    I followed your link to Freebase (shared data). Wow, what a cool idea. I think sharing data like this is the next logical step after the web honeymoon for sharing minutia wanes. Thank you for sharing.
  • ksenova Nov 27, 2010 @ 3:07 pm | delete
    I like the idea of your lens. Does it work well for you?
  • JaguarJulie Oct 24, 2009 @ 9:14 am | delete
    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.
  • Jack_Bergstrand Aug 13, 2009 @ 10:10 pm | delete
    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.
  • DavidHolmes Jul 5, 2009 @ 3:41 pm | delete
    @switch: I've changed the link as requested, thanks for the update.
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