Sayan’s BlogWorld

Dvorak tries to do some crystal gazing into the Google of the future. Google browser ? Google OS? Google PC? read this article to find out more.

India is fighting for an international regime to protect its biodiversity, but back home, it is still struggling to understand how best to document it. This is especially important since pharmaceutical and chemical companies have now set their sights on traditional medicines as the source of new drugs. While this makes good sense but these major corporations often take these traditional knowledge from the public domain and impose patents and other barriers of use against the very people who own the knowledge. Personally, I believe these traditional knowledge sources must be documented and developed further with the help of private enterprises but the resulting research must be given back to the public domain. A share of the profits should also be given back to the community.

Jef Raskin was one of the creators of the Apple Macintosh computer. He now wants to revolutionize the way people interact with computers. The article goes on, “…Raskin’s model allows a computer user to simply shift between word processing, spread sheets, photo manipulation, and just about everything else through simple “command sets.” …”

What ever be the shortcomings of Microsoft. I respect Bill Gates’ philanthropic activities.

This is an interesting look into how Google works on UI (user interface) design. A video is also available here (ASF-100K) and here (ASF-50K). This also a good insight into the workings of Google.

Is cold fusion a fact or fiction? Scientists at some very prestigious institutions say that they have replicated cold fusion successfully.

This article shows that matter can be almost as fast as light. Interestingly, even cosmic rays which bombard us every waking moment of our life is also one of the speed champions.

This year has been declared as the International Year of Physics by the UN to celebrate the centennial of Einsteins’ ‘miraculous year’.

The meet has been declared a success but the article points out concerns like “…numerical and time-frame targets would not be incorporated into the action plan as that could open up a Pandora’s box of complaints and objections.”

WebSideStory, a market research firm, depicts Firefox at a continuous growth rate since last year. Firefox now stands at 5% and Internet Explorer has declined to 90%.

I rediscovered this classic collection of Open Source stories when I found it amongst the required readings for my ‘Open Source Software’ course.

This is my first post since the last month’s tsunami tragedy. I hope all of us quickly learn from our mistakes and all the countries forget their petty bickerings and instead focus their energies towards the greater collective problems at hand.