How does everyone mitigate the limitations of Powerpoint? I’m hitting the wall, constrained by aligning bullets, fixed sans serif fonts and the general horizontal landscape.

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Once a marketing gimmick, free has emerged as a full-fledged economy. Offering free music proved successful for Radiohead & Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. The fastest-growing parts of the gaming industry are ad-supported casual games online and free-to-try massively multiplayer online games. Virtually everything Google does is free to consumers..

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Google shares are getting hit early Tuesday after comScore’s report on a startlingly big decline in paid click growth. Google’s January paid click growth was flat on a year-over-year basis, down 7% from December and down 12% from the fourth quarter. UBS cut its earnings estimate and price target in response.

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OVGuide.com might just be the best site you’ve never heard of. It’s literally the remote control for online video. Courtney Walker of LAIST.com explains!

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While the media and Silicon Valley have lost our collective minds over the rise of Facebook over the past year, traffic analysts Hitwise released numbers today indicating that things are not as they might seem.

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In the two months since MTV Networks and Harmonix released the music-based videogame ‘’Rock Band,'’ players have purchased and downloaded more than 2.5 million additional songs made available after the game’s…

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Sprinkled throughout Lifehacker’s archive of over 14,000 posts, we’ve featured hundreds of free web and desktop apps that help you get things done
—but which are the best? As we wrap up the year 2007, it’s the perfect time to put together a quick list of our favorite pieces of free software and web services

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Thanks to Ariel Hauter, Executive Director of The Hollywood Hill, for organizing a fantastic Holiday Party yesterday in Venice, featuring a very entertaining (and illuminating) talk by Jonathan Zittrain, who gave a presentation on the topic on The Future of the Internet - And How to Stop It! (the subject of his upcoming Spring 2008 book). Jonathan brought us all into the possible reality where malware slows down our unprecedented access to information. It was nice to see some familiar Barcamp LA faces there too, proving that the Hollywood Hill does its job and then some of bringing groups together that may never have interfaced before. I was in attendance with my very favorite geek, who was compelled by Zittrain’s presentation as well, proof positive that technology issues matter to unprecedented numbers of people.

I for one will be awaiting the release of Zittrain’s book this Spring!

More about Jonathan Zittrain: Jonathan Zittrain holds the Chair in Internet governance and Regulation at Oxford University and is the principal of the Oxford Internet Institute. Zittrain’s site is stopbadware. Check it out for more information on the issues at hand.

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Facebook is hiring and Google is “the best place to get good engineers and others”. “Facebook has already claimed Youtube CFO Gideon Yu, eCommerce Product lead Benjamin Ling and GDrive developer Justin Rosenstein.”

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