This Is The Office Of The Future

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The office of the future is going to look a lot different than it does today.

PSFK Labs, a trends and workplace consultancy with clients including Apple, BMW and Nike, just published a new report, The Future Of The Workplace, that predicts how this will look.

In short, offices will be very mobile with high information flow from the top down. And they'll also look a lot different, with sound-proof pods instead of cubicles, and TED-inspired meeting spaces.

We caught up with Piers Fawkes, president and founder of PSFK briefly about the report, which includes 1,200 data points from experts, creative agencies and other sources. "I’m really interested in the idea of talent on demand," he tells us. "Staffing in a company needs to be flexible and the office needs to be adaptive. Using algorithms to efficiently manage staff within the organization is all about efficiency and productivity."

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30 Informative Slideshare Presentations for Designers

SlideShare is the world’s largest community for sharing presentations. Individuals and organizations upload documents to SlideShare to share ideas, conduct research, connect with others, and generate leads for their businesses. Anyone can view presentations on topics that interest them, download them and reuse or remix for their own work. Today we collected thirty informative slideshare presentations for designers that are packed with some incredible information. We guarantee that you will learn something new. Enjoy!

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7 Ways to Educate Yourself Outside the Classroom

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The cost of continued education is soaring, and rate increases still loom on the horizon for many college students.

Couple this with the fact that tuition costs are rising faster than inflation, and it’s not surprising in the least to see college-age kids starting to look elsewhere for education alternatives.

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The State of Social Media

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The speed at which social media, as an industry, changes only brings to mind one term for me: break neck pace.

I live and breathe this industry and even I have trouble keeping up. We all see it every day as new platforms and tools and best practices are constantly evolving.

Luckily, there is also quite a bit of data and research available to help us get a grip on these changes.

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50 Brands That Are Changing The World

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Peter Fisk is a marketing guru and the author of the best-selling "Genius" series on company innovation.

He recently identified 50 gamechanger brands in a presentation featured on Slideshare.

Some of the featured brands are established. Apple will continue to change the world, because "the apps revolution is just beginning," while IBM is leading the charge on "creating solutions for a smarter planet."

Fisk also features start-ups like Live Nation for "redefining live music" and Pinterest for creating "self expression like never before."

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Software We Use But Hate

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Many of us spend a large chunk of our day on the computer. So, when you add up all that time—at home, at school, at work, and on commutes—it's not surprising that we occasionally get frustrated with something on our laptops or desktops. No system is perfect (no, not even a Mac), nor is any peripheral or gadget. And don't get us started on apps and OSes. Actually, let's do sound off.

There are computer-related annoyances that we deal with daily, and most of them have to do with software. Perhaps it's a constantly-crashing Chrome that makes a simple Google search take five times as long. Or maybe it's the sluggishness of iTunes and its annoying sync issues. These are problems we simply put up with because there's not really a better alternative.

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The world's most bizarre hotels: A slideshow

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La Villa Hamster in Nantes, France, offers guests the ultimate hamster experience: Beds of organic hay, edible grains, and a huge, human-sized hamster wheel. The hotel says it is filling the "animal transformation" niche in the hotel industry that has curiously gone unfilled for so many years. Here, a pictorial guide to the other strange ideas to emerge from the home-away-from-home industry...

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The history of supercomputers - Slideshow

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Have you ever wondered why a supercomputer is called a supercomputer? Is it the number of processors or the amount of RAM? Must a supercomputer occupy a certain amount of space, or consume a specific amount of power?

The first supercomputer, the Control Data Corporation (CDC) 6600, only had a single CPU. Released in 1964, the CDC 6600 was actually fairly small — about the size of four filing cabinets. It cost $8 million — around $60 million in today’s money — and operated at up to 40MHz, squeezing out a peak performance of 3 million floating point operations per second (flops).

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Android Ice Cream Sandwich: Hands-on tour - Slideshow

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While the Galaxy Nexus and Ice Cream Sandwich are not landing until the middle of November, the Android 4.0 SDK is now available. The SDK is vital for developers who want to check if their apps still work in ICS, and also for the intrepid bunker-dwelling adventurers of ExtremeTech who wasted little time in downloading and installing the SDK to poke around all of Android 4.0′s new features. Even though many of us stayed up to watch the announcement and demonstrations, it’s just not the same as playing with the operating system yourself.

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20 Online Tools To Help You Create Slideshow Presentations

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Create slideshows of your favorite photos, add special effects and background with music that match the occasions. Those are the few features that you can do from these free slideshow tools that we are showcasing in today’s post. Most of the tools to create professional looking business presentation require you to install the software in your computer but there are also that allows you to create slideshows online. Some are completely free to use while others require you to purchase their software in order to display one picture after another, in sequence at the pace you choose.

Here are the 20 Online Tools To Help You Create Slideshow Presentations. These softwares will make your photos more interesting to watch and could add up an exciting way in presenting your collection of digital photos to others.

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Startups: The Truth, The Lies, The Opinions...

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A great slideshow that presents the truth behind startups. I am a part of one right now, and I can say with great confidence that this is a fairly accurate representation on how they are.

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