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Higher-ed Web Design
Edustyle is a great site and fun to peruse. From the site’s “about” page: eduStyle is a higher-ed web design gallery powered by higher-ed web professionals. Users submit sites they like (or don’t like … it doesn’t matter) and other users votes, tag, and comment on them. Your profile collects all this sites that you vote or comment on so that you can easily find them again. Once a month two sites are selected as Noteworthy based on user votes and feedback. Thanks to Susan Curran of MIT’s Office of External Communications for this post idea! [read more]
Heat maps
Clickheat won’t keep you warm at night, but it will instantly tell you where people are clicking to the most on your site. Thanks to Michael Dutton from MIT’s Usability Lab for this post idea! [read more]
MIT’s TechTV…the new youtube
Even though it’s still in Beta and has a few bugs to work out, MIT’s TechTV is a great place to store your videos content online. Anyone with an MIT email account can sign up and post their own videos there for free. You can create your own playlists, create “collections” of your videos, and generate RSS feeds. And guess what, you can IM with other techtv-ers for help if you have questions. The content is moderated by MIT, so its safe for your kids to surf. You don’t have to worry about having any lewd or inappropriate videos popping up like there are on other... [read more]
Internet Advertising News
NPR offered three stories over the past few weeks on Internet advertising that showed how tracking advertising and user preferences is causing both concern and new ways to research consumer data: Online advertisers are increasingly able to target individual Internet users. The major online advertising companies, DoubleClick and Atlas can track what ads have been displayed on your computer as well as whether or not you responded to that ad using cookies. They can establish what a certain computer (because it can’t tell users apart) likes and dislikes and target their ads accordingly instead... [read more]
Nov 15: Adobe’s Creative Suite 3
NEW TIME for this month’s meeting! This month we are meeting on Nov 15th from 2-3 pm in the N42 Demo Center. TOPIC Tim Plumer from Adobe will be coming to give us an overview of their Creative Suite 3 product. Adobe’s creative applications are designed to work create a workflow for your creative tasks. This workflow allows you to focus more on the creative aspect of your work while giving you more options for delivery. Whether you want to create for print, web, or mobile, you can do so easily with Creative Suite 3 Design Premium. This hour-long tech talk will highlight the features... [read more]
