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Links for Saturday 25th August, 2007

Posted by Roo - 25/08/07 at 11:08:13 pm

• 43 Folders: Your best tip on doing presentations – Merlin Mann asked people for their best presentation tip. Here are some.
• 43 Folders: How I made my presentations a little better – Merlin Mann’s hints on presentation style.
• Presentation Zen – Garr Reynolds (no relation) on presentation design.
• occasional mind dumps: time hacks – Woodly has a clock which skews time. “Recently I started to exploit that effect to hold back our sometimes busy guests from leaving … So from 20:00 on the clock starts skewing time linearly so that a displayed 24:00 is actually 00:40.”
• alphaWorks : IBM ViaVoice Toolkit for Animation – “Lip synchronization (”lip sync”) is the process of synchronizing a character’s mouth movements with his speech. … Because ViaVoice provides an accurate acoustic model, the lip sync will also be accurate.” Near real-time too. Interesting.
• Innovation: Pico Interface Merges Multitouch and the Physical World – Gizmodo – “Pico is a computer interface that can move electromagnetic pucks, merging the digital and physical worlds”
• Eye Tracking Video: Capture Everything – Web Analytics World – Eye tracking in SL, using IBM as an example? Interesting.
• Do companies benefit from social networking? – “companies that network and form strategic alliances are more creative and develop more patented inventions than those that don’t.” While I don’t trust counting inventions to give an innovation metric, this is interesting.
• Facebook | News Feed Preferences – Facebook lets you turn the volume up and down on people and news types. Want less Scoble? Want less status messages and more photos? Now you can.
• [YouTube] Stranger than Fiction – infographics – ‘Stranger than Fiction’ infographic intro sequence (created by Kansas City-based design agency MK12). Why have I not seen this film yet? [via Information Aesthetics]
• [YouTube] fingerprint reader hacks – Why have I never thought of doing that? Ingenious abuse of the ThinkPad fingerprint security.
• gapingvoid: blogging isn’t dead, it’s just a subset of something much larger and more important – Here here.