This week’s tasty tidbits from the business and technology front, as well as other recommended links:

• Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable — An obituary for the newspaper industry, by the indispensable Clay Shirky. It’s especially relevant this week as the Seattle PI’s print edition passes away…
• Finally, A Use for Twitter — Shaq uses Twitter. Yes, that Shaq. So what happens when Shaq tweets his location at a local diner, and some fans go to see if it’s really him?
• Will the iPhone Remain The Fairest of Them All? — Apple announced that the iPhone 3.0 operating system will soon be available, with over 100 new features. Is it enough to keep it atop the mobile handset market?
• Wall Street on the Tundra — If you read only one long article about the financial crisis in Iceland—and how can you not?—this gem by Michael Lewis is wonderful. Like everything by Lewis, it’s equal parts informative, shocking, and funny.
• Android App Scans DVD Bar Codes, Starts BitTorrent Download — I predict that this application will be popular for exactly one day, at which point it will be sued into orbit. Still, it’s a neat demonstration of coming mobile technology.
• First Principles of Interaction Design — A great usability overview for software developers, for both traditional and web-based programs.
• Worst designed logos — Some of these are inappropriate, to say the least (unless you take them as originally intended!).

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.

This week’s tasty tidbits from the business and technology front, as well as other recommended links:

• Sync Google Calendar and Contacts with Mobile Devices — The last reason for not switching to Gmail is gone: Google’s email, calendar, and contacts now sync with all the recent mobile devices on the market.
• How Marketers Can Overcome Tradeshow Depression [cartoon] — Providing moral support to your fellow vendors in the trenches…
• 10 Websites To Make You A Photoshop Ninja — I’ve begun to step through a couple of these, and while I’m still more of a flailing white belt than a ninja, the results so far are promising.
• GTD Summit — A conference for David Allen Co’s productivity method and its adherents. While all the GTDers are at a conference together, will any Things actually Get Done elsewhere?
• 15 Companies That Might Not Survive 2009 — Who else might be joining Circuit City in bankruptcy? Some of these wouldn’t sadden me too much, but Krispy Kreme would be a damn shame…
• 60+ Resources For Entrepreneurs To Step Up and Take Charge — I can’t vouch for all of these links, but I browsed a number of them and it looks like a great resource. Worth a bookmark and occasional re-visit.
• This is why you’re fat. — A silly but delicious link. My favorite is the mega-doublestuff Oreo.