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Everyone heard Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, say that the social media tool was created by accident, and that it’s important to think like an artist or designer. What he never said was that a Brazilian was leading the product design at Twitter at the mere age of 20.

At the age of 22, Vitor Lourenço - who is from São Paulo but now lives in San Francisco - is now an Interactive Designer with 7 years experience. His projects have been used by millions of people around the world. Read more…

Dreaming, struggling, chasing after hope. Inspiration, planning, management… getting results and realizing your goals is bound up in putting your strategies into practice - real life stories are full of examples that show how necessary all these things are.

Tim Ferriss teaches that one can build a “muse” business and have a four-hour work week; in reality it takes all these factors together to create a huge opportunity for success. That’s what happened to Ben Huh. Read more…

There was a time when we had to depend on the mass media for coverage of events we couldn’t attend. Today the coverage is interactive and collaborative: participants comment live on the internet (Olivia Mitchell has published an interesting ebook about the use of backchannels like Twitter).

Some events, like Intercon, offer platforms to map, encourage and add value to content that the public shares, even calling on the public to write articles for an official collaborative book about the event. Others, like TEDxSP also have real-time coverage via Twitter. Read more…