'Google techtalks' Videos

Google Video has collection of videos on "TechTalk" - technical presentations shows happening almost every week at Google workplace (restricted for google employees). These presentation are given by educational scholars, and research people, and eminent IT industry personalities.

The presentations are really both interesting and diverse on topics. It includes presentation on languages (lisp, aspectj), on information management, on branding, or even on leveraging IT techniques for social welfare.

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Google+techtalks

Click on the above link or search 'Google techtalks' under google videos (http://video.google.com).

Or rather extensive list of videos from Google Production

http://video.google.com/googleplex.html

Thanks, Google! For making this presentations public.

How Google hires...

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/03/hiring-lake-wobegon-strategy.html

Any small technical startup, blows in terms of number of employees working, as it becomes successful as a market leader. How to keep the intelligent quotient of an company high, still recruiting in hundreds?

This blog explains the google's strategy to hire people, at the same time keeping the cumulative intelligent quotient of the people in the company as high as possible.

Improve ur presentation

Recently I have seen a presentation which is very clear and effective to the point. It has around 60-100 slides, but maximum 2 or 3 word in a slide. I loved it. When I checked more about these kind of presentations I came to know it is a lessig-style presentation.

http://lessig.org

Who is lessig? He is one who fights against copyright in creative works. He created this kind of style presentations.

Follow this blog http://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationzen/ to learn yourself how u can impove your professional presentation, for effectiveness.

A lessig's presentation http://lessig.org/freeculture/free.html

Also must to watch this presentation: http://www.identity20.com/media/OSCON2005/