More cool news
September 12th, 2004 | by ian |Wired News: Better Science Through Gaming: Enormous quantities of data generated by automated techniques in genetics and proteomics have led to an unprecedented requirement for tedious data mining. Here is an interesting product, Genesifter, that makes the task more manageable and fun too! Cool, would love to hear from someone who has tried it out!
Outsource your job to earn more! – The Times of India: “Outsource your job to earn more! Outsource your job to get a new one!” I wonder how common this really is. Obviously with salaries overseas as little as 1/10th of silly valley’s it is theoretically possible to outsource your jobs and therefore manage to carry several jobs simultaneously. Again I would love to hear from someone who has actually done this…
Eyetracking experiments show how users scan webpages and has implications for anyone doing design or decisions about content location. Seems to confirm what a lot of us know intuitively already but backs it up with data that could be useful maximizing the effectiveness of layout for sites that have large numbers of vistors.