Arup Chakraborty brought to my attention a great story from NYT some time ago. This story talks about social networking for people who don’t have computers: Babajob seeks to bring the social-networking revolution popularized by Facebook and MySpace to people who do not even have computers — the world’s poor. And the start-up is just [...]
Human relationships are truly strange. In some discussions today — my old time friend was visiting me from India and we were talking about all kind of things — much of the discussions was about relationships. It is always puzzling to me that some people will behave very nicely with unknown and less known people. [...]
A good analysis of 3 3D movie technologies is given here. Stephen Shankland saw Beowulf in all 3 forms: Imax 3D, Real D, and Dolby 3D. After seeing the same movie twice in each of these formats, he concluded that none is perfect yet, but thins that Dolby 3D is the best.
Just read this in Times of India. India is the most illiterate county and has poor record in human development index. When we read all the good things, we should not forget such important things. We have a lng way to go in every area. We just tend to focus on absolute numbers and usually [...]
Flickr is introducing a feature called places — this will give photos taken at a place. You should be able to search based on the name of a place and find photos taken there. Photo organization is an important problem and digital cameras have made it a ‘hot’ problem. This is definitely a nice feature. [...]