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India is a country of 1.1 billion people. With that many workers, it seems difficult to believe it can have labor shortages. However, a New York Times story reveals that a lack of skilled workers in that country could slow down the rapid growth of its outsourcing industry. There are huge demands on certain labor segments in India because many parts of the world are outsourcing customer support, software coding and other back-end office work to that country.
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My wife is a teacher in an elementary school. She told me about this site yesterday. Enter your address and it will pop up a map that shows the registered sex offenders that live near you. You’ll see red, yellow, blue and green squares. Click on one, and it will show you a picture of the offender, the offense and the person’s address. Yes, it scares the bejeezus out of me just knowing they are there in the first place, but it’s an amazing use of technology to keep people informed. Maybe most of you knew about this. I didn’t.
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Here’s another study that corroborates Tuesday’s post about the changing media habits of students. This study by Boston-based marketing firm Y2M, surveys the thoughts, trends, preferences, concerns and technology usage of students graduating from college.
Those who have had a chance to read Malcolm Gladwell’s excellent book, The Tipping Point, will certainly recognize a tipping point here for students and the Web. According to the report, the percentage of students who used the Web to purchase things went from about 21 percent in 2004 to almost 80 percent in 2005.
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Web Design From Scratch has assembled a wonderful collection of current trends in Web design along with short commentary and samples of each trend. A lot of what is on the list are design concepts that have been used on blogs and designer’s sites over the past couple of years. I’m excited that some of these design techniques are beginning to show up on more and more mainstream sites and hope the trend of going simple continues to catch on.
The seven trends that Web Design From Scratch highlight:
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Guimp, the world’s smallest Web site, has a collection of classic videogames reduced to 18 pixels by 18 pixels. Amazingly, games like Pong, Pac Man and Breakout hold up pretty well and are still fun even when reduced to their absolute minimum. Could you have as much fun playing an 18x18pixel version of Grand Theft Auto as you can playing miniature Pong? The main thing these tiny games illustrate is that as much thought went into the gameplay as the graphics. Unlike today, where so much effort goes into creating the most realistic graphics the hardware is capable of that we end up with a bunch of amazing looking games that all play the same or offer nothing new that hasn’t been played before.
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