Tags: Everyday Inspiration

TED Talk – Jeff Han

Jeff Han is a research scientist for New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Here, he demonstrates—for the first time publicly—his intuitive, “interface-free,” touch-driven computer screen, which can be manipulated intuitively with the fingertips, and responds to varying levels of pressure. (Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 09:32) This is a must see. […]

Microlending for everyone

If you want to do something meaningful this week, sign on to Kiva.org Kiva lets you connect with and loan money to unique small businesses in the developing world. By choosing a business on Kiva.org, you can “sponsor a business” and help the world’s working poor make great strides towards economic independence. Throughout the course […]

Finally, interactive maps of India!

If you havent, check out mapmyindia.com Mapmyindia provides highly detailed, interactive, digital maps covering the length and breadth of India along with 150 Indian city maps detailed down to the street level. MapmyIndia maps serve multiple purposes as travel maps, business maps, railway maps, road maps, pincode maps and naviagable maps for India. Here how […]

Paced RSS to your inbox

Interesting twist on RSS. Can i pace my feeds? I am overloaded with alerts/emails/feeds from a variety of sources. I think this will be an interesting tool, where i can say, send me 5 pages/ 5 paragraphs everyday of this page/book. Check it out, sound intriguing. from http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/004775.html If a user is allowed to tune […]

Do you want to produce a movie?

Now you can. A canadian director has set up a website where you can help him make the movie!  The difference: “MYMILLIONDOLLARMOVIE.com” gives the public the opportunity to purchase parts of the film for $10/frame and be privy to the process of making the film. Instead of providing a space for small, still images, “mymilliondollarmovie.com” […]

Ode to bloggers

Jay Srinivasan, whom i met at Bangalore Bio 2006, has started a blog on startups. Check out his In-verse blog Them most people just watch the world turn, Just a tiny few that can make the world churn. Amongst them the bloggers that watch and learn, Then thrash out the issues from stem to stern. […]

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