Google maps now offers some more interesting new features: Google Maps now offers a 360-degree view of many streets in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, Las Vegas, Denver and Miami, with other cities to roll out later The…
Colorful reading
A very interesting idea — to redefine alphabet in colors rather than balack and white shapes — to chage the way we read is proposed. Freedman has been working on Kromofons–an innovative alphabet in which the 26 English letters are represented…
Events: Unaware of events
Google released Hot Trends. In an interview, the developer of the software, Mr Amit Patel, said something interesting related to eventweb that I found interesting: “There are events going on all the time that most of us are not aware…
Electricity in India?
A story in NYT brought back memories from 30 years ago. Currently I am in Germany — and 30 years ago I lived here for about two years. I remember being asked more than once whether electricity is common in…
Nagpur — a model for Indian Cities!!!
NY Times has a story about second tier cities in India and talks about Nagpur as an example of a planned city in an unplanned country. It says: But if the government has its way, Nagpur will become a destination…