This weekend is the anniversary of a milestone in social media, the first ever hashtag use on Twitter. The hashtag started off on Twitter in 2007, and has since spread over Instagram, YouTube, Google+, Facebook and more. Proper hashtag usage can help you get substantially more engagement on your tweets, meaning more new followers, more replies and more exposure.
Sometimes change is gradual, taking months or even years. And sometimes, suddenly, an event can shift your direction within 24 hours. It’s those quick experiences that make the stories of TV series MY:24. We built this app that facilitates people to document their own life-changing story.
Peel Street has seen an explosion of new venues, restaurants and bars along its narrow length. The latest crop to open includes sister venues – small bar Maybe Mae and Bread & Bone Wood Grill.
Amy and Kieran were recently invited to give a guest lecture on designing for Interactive UI at UniSA.
A few weeks ago now, I took myself out of the office for a week to attend the Look Upstairs design conference in Melbourne. The conference was held in the recently renovated Arts Centre Melbourne. The sculptural building housed hundreds of design thinkers and speakers from every continent for the three day conference.
If you have an iPhone or a high-end Android phone you’re going to be experiencing beacons in the next 12 to 18 months, maybe a lot sooner. Useful, terrifying or just very annoying? You decide.
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