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With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, Hans Rosling debunks a few myths about the "developing" world. Rosling is professor of all international health at Sweden's world-renowned Karolinska Institute, and founder of Gapminder, a non-profit that brings vital global data to life

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This video was recommended by kalyan. Very Inspiring.Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala is Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India and was department Chair till recently. He received his B.Tech degree from IIT, Kanpur, and his MS and PhD degrees from the University of Maine. From 1979 to 1981, he was with Washington State University as

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Prof Annaiah Ramesh, Lecturer in the Department of Applied Botany, Mangalore University has finally entered into the Guinness Book of World Records.Prof Ramesh had received an e-mail on June 23, which informed his entry into the Guinness Book of World Records and also stated that he would receive an official letter within 10 days from then. The name of Prof Ramesh is finally entered into the

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Original Article on WSJ:Pando lets you email huge attachments -- up to one gigabyte each -- to anyone, without breaching email size limits, or clogging anyone's inbox. It comes in versions for both Windows and Macintosh computers, available for downloading at www.pando.com.Here's how you use Pando. First, you download and install the small Pando program. Then, you select the files you want to

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Excerpt from slashdot:Alex Tew, a 21-year-old student from a small town in England, earned a cool million dollars in four months on the Internet. Selling porn? Dealing prescription drugs? Nope. All he sells are pixels. The idea: turn his home page into a billboard made up of a million dots, and sell them for a dollar a dot to anyone who wants to put up their logo. A 10 by 10 dot square, roughly

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From the past few weeks i have been working on tagging my MP3's. I have a lot of MP3's which are named as track[some number].mp3 which offcourse makes it hard to create playlists or sort by song genre. I was recently gifted an iPod Video by my friends. So naturally i wanted the tags sorted out. Kalyan helped me out here and introduced me to an software called MusicBrainz.MusicBrainz is a

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To design an easy-to-use interface, pay attention to what users do, not what they say. Self-reported claims are unreliable, as are user speculations about future behavior.Watch Users Work:Too frequently companies base their designs on user input obtained through misguided methods. A typical example? Create a few alternative designs, show them to a group of users, and ask which one they prefer.If

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Great thought from Randy Komisar:Question autority, question other peope's expectations,question convention. We live in a day and time when all things are possible for people who have the raw intelligence and energy and dedication to reinvent things that includes re-inveting themselves. It's a shame when smart people conform to the conventional expections and leave on living a creative life.

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From Google Press Center:It turns out that looking at the aggregation of billions of search queries people type into Google reveals something about our curiosity, our thirst for news, and perhaps even our desires. Considering all that has occurred in 2005, we thought it would be interesting to study just a few of the significant events, and names that make this a memorable year. (We’ll leave it

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Excerpt from slashdot:"The BBC reports that researchers at UIUC and the University of Amsterdam, Holland have used "emotion recognition" software to determine Mona Lisa's true emotions. The algorithm is based on a library of neutral face images of young women and determined that Mona Lisa was 83% happy and 9% disgusted." From the article: "The program, developed with researchers at the University

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Excerpt from WSJ:Volkswagen AG is launching early next year the Bugatti Veyron, a curvaceous two-seater with air-intake scoops and a large radiator grille that prominently displays the Bugatti badge. For the German car maker, it represents an unusual bet on the high-end market at a time of cost cutting for the company and as U.S. car makers continue to struggle with slow sales.The Bugatti Veyron

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According to ZDNet Microsoft and MTV have joined forces to form Urge, a new online music service. From the article: 'The company said Urge would include a subscription component, as well as allowing individual song sales. A spokesman declined to discuss pricing, saying full details would be announced next month. The company gave no specifics on launch date beyond saying it would be sometime in

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Via an email from Marc Cohen:With more than 15,000 songs available at the touch of a button, the iPod generation has more access to music than ever before. But now experts believe consumers are suffering from musical overload. New research on the listening habits of music fans has revealed that many now plug in their ear-phones out of habit rather than for enjoyment. The study by psychologists at

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Shrikant Writes:21 pieces of small adviceONE. Give! people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.TWO. Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.THREE. Don’t believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.FOUR. When ! you say, “I love you,” mean it.FIVE. When you say, “I’m sorry,” look the person in

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Peter Drucker says:Knowledge workers believe they are paid to be effective, not to work 9 to 5, and that smart businesses will "strip away everything that gets in their knowledge workers' way." Those that succeed will attract the best performers, securing "the single biggest factor for competitive advantage in the next 25 years."Hire by committee: Virtually every person who interviews at Google

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Excerpt from Computer Weekly:IBM says that the new version of its IBM Workplace Managed Client software will support the open-source Open Document Format (ODF) standard.ODF support in the Workplace Managed Client desktop management system will be available early in 2006. The product is set to be aggressively marketed in developing countries and to governmental bodies that do not want to simply

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Excerpt from Red Herring:RealNetworks began testing a web-based version of its Rhapsody digital music service on Monday, enabling Windows, Apple, and Linux users to play songs over the service without downloading and installing a separate application.Unlike iTunes and the Windows-based version of Rhapsody, however, the service won’t allow song downloads. However, users can listen to streams of

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NYT writes:The Indian government has begun a 15-year project to widen and pave some 40,000 miles of narrow, decrepit national highways, with the first leg, budgeted at $6.25 billion, to be largely complete by next year. It amounts to the most ambitious infrastructure project since independence in 1947 and the British building of the subcontinent's railway network the century before.For India,

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Excerpt from slashdot:Glide Effortless has gone live. New York Times columnist David Pogue describes it as "full-blown online operating system" that's a mix of genius and interface awkwardness. Pogue concludes "Glide's core idea is unassailably fresh and useful. If TransMedia's plans for world domination fall into place, maybe it won't need an elevator pitch. Maybe 'You gotta try this' will be

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Excerpt from Rajesh Jain:Surj Patel is building his own cell phone, bit by soldered bit.It's not easy. It starts with parts that cost around $400. Then Patel and his partner, Deva Seetharam, have to write code to run on the tiny Linux-based computer that he's hoping will serve as the brains of his new phone...."I want the phone to be much more open," Patel said. "The world's best research and

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The Music Genome Project, an attempt to define music by it's traits in a way similar to DNA defines traits in humans has led to the development of Pandora. Pandora uses the song choices you make to see what traits appeal to you and present you with custom radio station. While limiting you to thumbs up or thumbs down, the "gene" heuristics allows for a very quick adaptation to your musical tastes

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Excerpt from economictimesTop recruiters and executives will readily tell you that charisma is regarded as essential for career success, especially if you hope to reach the top executive ranks.Whether Schwarzenegger or Steve Jobs, successfulmen share seven traits that mark them as especially charismatic.By identifying and adopting their behaviors in our own professional communications, we can

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Dave Pollard writes in the context of cultural anthropolgy:I think what most of us want, male and female, human and other, is attention and appreciation. Everything else is derivative of those two things.It's really all about attention, and paying attention. The attention we pay to others, and that others pay to us, defines us, far more than our appearance or our name. And how can we appreciate

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