This Week’s Bits & Bytes
This week’s tasty tidbits from the business and technology front, as well as other recommended links:
- PowerPoint Design in 2009: Speaking about Presenting — This post aggregates a large number of links on how to improve your Microsoft Powerpoint presentations. Let’s all make our slides more interesting and useful!
- Eye-tracking studies: more than meets the eye — Fascinating entry on the Official Google Blog about their usability testing, which tracks the eyeballs of users as they flit across the page.
- TED: MIT Students Create Digital Sixth Sense — Speaking of eye tracking – WOW!! This "information overlay" projection interface demo is amazing. If you get excited about the future, this will be the coolest video you’ve seen in a while.
- Why Facebook Is for Old Fogies — Time Magazine means this in a good way, explaining why Facebook is a great tool for people of all ages, not just college kids and recent graduates.
- What’s killing the video-game business? — The video game business is now as large as the motion picture industry, and its economic model is plagued with similar problems…
- Using Web 2.0 to reinvent your business for the economic downturn — Low-cost is one of the key strengths of Web 2.0 software and services. "We are very fortunate that, given the generational challenges we face today, we have tools that those that came before us could not possibly imagine…"
- My Beer League Team Needs Stimulus Money — A plea to Congress and the President.
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