PlanetRead - A small change for Colossal gains in Literacy
Monday, September 18th, 2006 Posted in General, Progress, Social | No Comments »A fairly simple yet promising idea. Link to PlanetRead .. A small change for Colossal gains in Literacy
Virtual World vs Real World
Tuesday, October 25th, 2005 Posted in NewAge, Progress, Virtual Worlds | 1 Comment »Is our Real World losing all detail while the Virtual Worlds gathers more life? Read the Gizmodo article from frog Design Mind called Closing the Loop
P2P for premium content: finally.
Wednesday, September 28th, 2005 Posted in General, Ideas, Progress, Technical, Technology | No Comments »As I had mentioned in my previous post, P2P can be used to explore new economic models. It's nice to know that there's formal work in that direction as can be understood by this post. They are doing exactly what I wanted ...
Open Source Movie!!
Sunday, August 14th, 2005 Posted in NewAge, Progress, Technical | No Comments »"You can help us realizing this project by purchasing the DVD of the movie in advance. The DVDs will include the movie in high quality widescreen, making-of documentaries and all production files. And even better, all orders before September 1 ...
SPACE.com — ‘Planet’ No Longer a Scientific Word, Discoverer Says
Thursday, August 4th, 2005 Posted in General, Progress | No Comments »So now they have found a significantly large body in the Kuiper Belt ( the swarm of objects way beyond Neptune). It's larger than Pluto. So it should be a planet. So we have a tenth planet. But no. Going by that, there ...
Hybrid Cars
Thursday, August 4th, 2005 Posted in Progress, Social | No Comments »This is a field that is maturing fast and it is very significant. Fossil fuels (gasoline, petrol) are getting over. We need to find alternative sources of fuels. Until we find total replacements for the present fuel sources, we need to ...
Out goes the reel, theatres may now stream movies off the Internet
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005 Posted in General, NewAge, Progress | No Comments »Now they have developed a technology using which you can "Broadcast Movies Directly to Theatres(Read more at wired.com)":http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,68332,00.html Now, isn't that amazing. So basically a theatre will become a huge TV.
Electronic Presence Awareness - Dodgeball & Google
Monday, May 23rd, 2005 Posted in Privacy, Progress | No Comments »I don't know where we are going. Sometimes things happen so fast, they overtake my thoughts and I find myself unprepared to sample what the facts convey. It takes time to sink in. It takes time to then incorporate that ...
ICICI Bank’s ‘Five S’ clean up act!
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004 Posted in General, Progress | No Comments »Five S is one of the basic tenets of lean manufacturing. It originated in Japan as a work-environment enhancing measure, but the Japanese believe this visually-oriented exercise is useful not just for improving the physical environment, but also for improving ...
GoodNewsIndia~Population control for a democratised India
Wednesday, August 25th, 2004 Posted in Progress | 2 Comments »GoodNewsIndia~%u221E~Population control for a democratised India A very interesting & inspiring model for population control in India.
