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Generate electricity by your movements
MIT duo see people-powered "Crowd Farm" from MIT NewsThe so-called "Crowd Farm," as envisioned by James Graham and Thaddeus Jusczyk, both M.Arch candidates, would turn the mechanical energy of people walking or jumping into a source of electricity.
A Crowd Farm in Boston's South Station railway terminal would work like this: A responsive sub-flooring system made up of blocks that depress slightly under the force of human steps would be installed beneath the station's main lobby. The slippage of the blocks against one another as people walked would generate power through the principle of the dynamo, a device that converts the energy of motion into that of an electric current.
Google Funds Pvt Ltd ?
| Google acquires 30% stake in Ventureast TeNet Fund for $3.75 million | |||||
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Exercises for Zombies
Yoga Exercises for People Who Spend Long Hours at their Desk from Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal
>> Stretching Software Reminds You to Exercise
While it is often recommended that office workers take break, get up and walk around - there are some simple yoga exercises that you perform without leaving the desk.
>> Video's of Yoga exercises
Part 1: Introducing the Exercises (9:40 minutes)
Part 2: Linking the Exercises to Your Breath (12:17 minutes)
Part 3a: Varying the Exercises (9:57 minutes)
Part 3b: Varying the Exercises (8:40 minutes)
AlooTechie gets bashed
In its over enthusiasm to report the first 'Domain War' victory in India AlooTechie reported that India TV has won the case against India Broadcast Live - without verifying the stats ... a comment on its website read like this:This seems motivated by India TV and is not a true and correct report on the Order. India TV has NOT WON the domain case against IBL. On the contrary, IBL has been permitted to resume operations of its website. Its a shame that Alootechie has reported a flawed and untrue article for its readers. They should check the facts before introducing such reports which seemed funded by India TV. Alootechie just lost a reader.well ... galtiyan hoti hain ... I think tech reporting is still in its infancy in India - and will take time to mature. Till now its more like people throwing up their own views on the web. It has a long way to go before assuming the role of a mainstream media (and hence assuming its seriousness) ... I wish Rajesh a best of luck for any future mishaps - he is doing a great job ... may his journey remain scrape free
Microsoft ka chhota recharge!!
Source: Microsoft Office 2007 Subscription Inspired by Prepaid Phone Cards from Digital Inspiration by Amit AgarwalLike the pre-paid cell phone cards, customers can pay for the time they use Microsoft Office 2007 without actually buying the full software. Microsoft will charge around $10 per month of Office 2007 usage.
Google hits the PRINT button !!!
Even with the growth of online news sites, Americans still read newspapers. Over the course of a typical week, nearly 3 out of 4 adults (115 million) in the top 50 markets read a copy of a daily or Sunday newspaper.* That's why thousands of businesses use print advertising every day to reach a local audience, and why we've announced that we're extending Google AdWords to newspapers for most U.S. advertisers. To learn more, visit the Google Print Ads™ site, or read about it on the Inside AdWords blog.
Posted by Andrew Chang, Product Marketing Manager, Google Print Ads
docx is actually zip!
Source: http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/07/edit-print-or-convert-docx-to-doc.htmlThe DOCX files, which are now the default file extension in Word 2007, are essentially a bunch of zipped XML documents - [you can even rename the extension from .docx to .zip and extract the contents using Winzip]Ed: And this is true for PPT as well - try renaming ".pptx" to ".zip" and open the files.
Alternatively, you can convert .docx to .doc or extract text from .docx files online using the free Zamzar.com or docxtodoc.com service. Unlike the Microsoft compatibility pack, these docx to doc conversion services do not require copy of Microsoft Office.It is also possible to open and edit a .docx file in OpenOffice or StarOffice using the free Open XML Translator from SourceForge which converts .docx Word documents to .odf and vice versa.
Web2.0 site names
RWW's list of funny Web2.0 namesTop 10 Worst Web App Names from Read/WriteWeb by
One aspect of Web 2.0 that continues to entertain is the strange, sometimes awful, names that startups come up with to promote themselves. The R/WW authors had a pow-wow on Basecamp and we've come up with a (fun) list of the worst 10 names in Web 2.0.
One of the reasons why WebApps have funny names (apart from the 'being catchy' thing) is that most 'good' names have been hoarded by domain name hoarding companies. I myself have been facing the problem in relation to a personal project I am pursuing.
Fund for FaceBook 'based' Applications
Bay Partners Announces AppFactory, A Seed Fund For Facebook Apps from Read/WriteWeb byThe idea of 'micro' investments is exciting - I think if popular sites in India like Naukri and Orkut also 'open-up' - there could be a huge potential in developing 'apps' around these ...Bay Partners, a San Francisco area venture capital fund has announced AppFactory a seed fund aimed at developers on the Facebook Platform.
AppFactory will invest $25,000 to $250,000 in each Facebook app as well as offering technical and business assistance and mentoring. The program is being headed by Salil Deshpande and Angela Strange and will specifically target applications being launched for the Facebook platform, or existing companies who are "changing their strategy to become a Facebook focused application."
It IS about Technology!!
It's Not Not About the Technology from Andrew McAfeeOne of the most common phrases I hear in discussions of any type of IT initiative, from Enterprise 2.0 to ERP to systems integration, is "It's not about the technology."
People usually mean one of two things when they say INATT; one .... is "It's not about the technology alone." .... Technologies have to be managed in order to do any of these things; they're not magic bullets or miracle cures....
The other meaning behind INATT is "The details of this technology can be ignored for the purposes of this discussion." This perspective is dangerous because it essentially denies two important facts: that technologies can differ from each other in salient ways, and that they can change over time.
[This]also encourages the view that there's nothing new under the sun -- that one generation of technology aimed at addressing a business problem is the same as all other generations... This sense of INATT is pessimistic and self-defeating, even if it's not intended to be. It denies that there can be improvements, incremental or radical, in the ability of technologies to accomplish important goals.
Sometimes, at least in part, it is about the technology.
InviteShare: On sale for $7500
Get Your Hands on Hot Beta Invites from Read/WriteWeb by Josh CatoneInvite Share launched just 5 days ago on July 8 and already has nearly 6,500 users (there appear to be are a lot of people waiting for invitations, however, since they've only distributed just over 5,000 of them so far). The site got so popular, so fast, that the owners put it up for sale after TechCrunch featured it last night, and have thus far attracted a high bid of $7,500.
This might be a good concept for 'micro-entrepreneurship' - start a website on an interesting but simple concept - like say Invite Sharing etc ... and after it gets popular - sell it on eBay ... :-)
The dark horse in the TV market
There may not be another company as well-positioned to take advantage of the growth in IPTV as Microsoft. Despite being primarily a software company, Microsoft has long had a passion for television. The company launched the 24-hour cable news channel MSNBC in July of 1996 in a joint venture with NBC. Just less than a year later, Microsoft purchased WebTV, one of the first products to marry television and the Internet. In 2000 they acquired Israel-based Peach Networks , a provider of technology for digital television. The late nineties also saw a number of television-related investments by Microsoft, in companies such as AT&T, @Home, Comcast, and Rogers.While the 1990s were a period of heavy investment in television companies (including a number of acquisitions), the 2000s have so far been much more about Microsoft developing television-related technology. It is on the resulting products and services that we now focus our attention.
What Crap!
Blogger Kicked Out of Stadium for Live Blogging the Game from Digital Inspiration byThis is unbelievable but true - a blogger had to leave the stadium because he was posting live updates of the NCAA baseball tournament game on his newspaper's website. Even his press credentials were revoked for the crime of "blogging."
The argument was that live reporting of a "game in progress" violated the broadcasting rights which were sold exclusively to ESPN and CBS.
The NCAA says bloggers can write about the game before it starts or after it's over. In between, they can blog about "the atmosphere, crowd and other details," but not about the game itself.
Sulekha apes Google 'Click to Call'
Another Idea busted .... :-(| Sulekha.com enables users to call advertisers for free By Rajesh Barnwal | |||||
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Google Apps now free for Non-profit institutions
From:http://www.google.com/a/npo/
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/nonprofits-mix-it-up-with-google-apps.html
With Google Apps' free communication, collaboration and publishing tools, including email accounts on your organization's domain (like staff@your-nonprofit.org), your entire non-profit organization can share information and ideas more easily. And now that registered non-profits qualify for Google Apps Education Edition, you'll have access to Google's premium product and support offerings at no additional cost.
With the Education Edition, your non-profit organization can:
- Decrease its total cost of ownership
- Get up and running quickly, even if it doesn't have a dedicated IT staff
- Offer staff and devoted volunteers the very latest innovation from Google, on its domain
We're working hard to expand the availability of the Education Edition to international non-profits, so please stay tuned. In the mean time, international non-profits are welcome to signup for Google Apps Standard Edition, currently available in many languages worldwide.
Preview: BlogoMania
Innovative Concept for bloggers!!http://www.blogomania.in
Blogomania is the destination for Blog Maniacs
Book Reviews
Movie Reviews
Management Informatika
Soul of music
Fin-atics
Sanctum Sacrosanct
...and lots more!
Our endevour is to get you in touch with peers, experts, fellow-maniacs from all across the globe. Our accomplishments in the first month has been to be mentioned in a International Newsletter, having expert panel comprising of Laura Stamps,Peter Hunter,Prof Monika Khanna, Prof Suresh Ghai, Rishu Bajaj on our Blogs
Disclosure:I also cross post some of my posts at 2 of Blogomania's blogs -
http://moviereviewsanddiscussions.blogspot.com/
http://bookreviewsanddiscussions.blogspot.com/
$100-million venture capital fund - Nexus India Capital launched
| DimDim.com receives $5 million VC fund from Nexus India Capital | |||||
| When: 7/10/2007 2:42:32 PM By Rajesh Barnwal | |||||
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On enthusiasm and public speaking
- Lessons from Steve Jobs' "greatest presentation"
- "If you believe that your particular product or service will change the world, then say so. Have fun with the content. During the iPhone launch, Jobs uses many adjectives to describe the new product, including 'remarkable,' 'revolutionary,' and 'cool.' He jokes that the touch-screen features of the phone 'work like magic…and boy have we patented it.' I think speakers are so afraid of over-hyping a product that they go to the opposite extreme and make their presentations boring. If you're passionate about a product, service, or company, let your listeners know."
Startups selling on eBay ;-)
eBay Startup Sales - Going, going, gone...to the geek in the back! from Read/WriteWeb by Richard MacManus
USAToday has an article today discussing the recent trend for startups to sell themselves on eBay. USAToday starts off with a joke:
"What do Beanie Babies, Pez Dispensers and troubled Internet companies have in common? They're all for sale on eBay."
eBay has become known as a quick and easy way to sell your startup, should you need to. Techcrunch has a nice phrase for this - the "eBay exit". USAToday notes that "more than 10 dot-coms" have recently put themselves up for auction on eBay. The paper says that Search engine DigForIt.com sold for $25,400 this month and SynapseLife, an online calendar and organizational site which Techcrunch wrote about, sold for $60,000 (it opened at $50k). Also Read/WriteWeb covered the eBay sale of Talkr in February this year, which sold for $50k all up. There are many more instances of ebay exits we could list. And there are other places where startups can sell themselves too, like SitePoint Marketplace (Josh Catone noted in January that Blogster went that route).
Another of Google's 'India' story
Mid-day more than midway to success from Inside AdSense byMid-day.com is a newspaper website for readers in Mumbai, India which has been in the AdSense program since 2005. According to Gauri Daswani, who was the Mid-day.com Assistant Manager at the time, 50% of the site's revenue is generated through AdSense. "Monetization has become much easier with the AdSense model," she says. "To ensure good results from AdSense, it is imperative that we create compelling content which in turn accounts for a good user experience and definitely benefits Google's advertisers." .... her team continues to experiment with other changes to find what will perform best for Mid-day.com. "We have learned that subtle changes can produce significant results."
Elephants on Google Earth
African Elephants Spotted on Google Earth
This group of ten African elephants was spotted on Google Earth. In another satellite shot of Australia's Bondi Beach, they say the Google Earth pictures are so clear that you can almost read the designer labels on the bikinis.
PCWorld has slide show highlighting some of the strangest sights found using Google Earth including crop circles and a 1.8-square-mile scale model of a disputed region on the border of China and India.
What is ByteFeed all about?
This is my ‘Tech Dump blog’ containing snippets of the Tech News and analysis I glean from the Web everyday. I track tech blogs / websites .. get loads of forwards and keep surfing day-in and day-out for Technology tit-bits on the net ...
I got hooked to reading Tech Blogs about 10 months ago - when I started using Google Reader. Slowly my reading list grew and I kept adding deleting ... then gradually not only did my reading list increase, my ability to read and filter more and more content daily increased.
So, apart from reading these blogs, I started sending some interesting ones via email to Shubham and Hemant - occasionally marking a few other friends too. Of late, I realized that I had been sending too many such emails and I better start a parallel blog to record these 'filtered' blog posts.
Since these 'referred posts' are mostly on Technology, I used to send excerpts of these via emails by the subject 'ByteFeed' . So, when I decided to publish these emails on a blog simultaneously – I gave the blog the same name.
The idea behind this blog is just to collate interesting news at one place as it happens. I myself have benefited by bloggers who glean info off the web and publish a selection on their blogs [Example: Rajesh Jain's emergic]. This helps save my time as I read only filtered stuff - this blog too is a similar attempt from my side to output a filtered feed of my own reading list on a blog.
Few words of caution to people who would want to become visitors to that blog or subscribe to its RSS feeds. I do not intend to post any original posts or commentaries there - this blog would be more of an 'excerpt collector' from various leading tech blogs which I track. So it might seem that the content on this blog is plagiarized - however that is not the intention at all.
Also, please note that my personal blog still continues to be this and I don't see any situation when the posts made there would get posted here. All my original posts, rants, commentaries, reviews, travelogues ... etc would continue to get published on http://the-complete-man.blogspot.com/