Sayan’s BlogWorld

Google just announced a new service for pushing Gmail contacts and Google Calendar updates to mobile devices. This is neat!
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February 9th, 2009 | Tags: technology | Category: all, content distribution, personal, technology | Leave a comment

This is a spectacular talk… one of the best yet on TED so far.

Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened — as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding [...]

March 14th, 2008 | Category: all, content distribution, discovery, nature, science, social | Comments (5)

Check out this very engaging talk (embedded below) by former President Bill Clinton. He was a keynote speaker at the 2007 U.S. Conference of Mayors Climate Protection Summit hosted by Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels. Worldchanging.org has good overview of his speech here.
UPDATE: Removed embedded video due to broken link.
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November 5th, 2007 | Category: all, conservation, content distribution, social | Leave a comment

Interesting conversation from the 2007 O’Reilly Open Source Convention between Phillip Torrone (Senior Editor, Make magazine) and Limor Fried (Owner, Adafruit Industries)

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October 6th, 2007 | Tags: electronics, hardware, open source | Category: all, content distribution, social, technology | Leave a comment

TechCrunch reports that this technology is so revolutionary that Adobe snapped up co-inventor Shai Avidan on a moments notice. Check out the video to see how neat this is…

August 29th, 2007 | Category: all, content distribution, invention, technology | Leave a comment

The Ministry of Tourism, India has launched a new channel on Youtube. Check out this very refreshing tourism video from India

August 27th, 2007 | Category: all, content distribution, personal | Comments (2)

I am a big fan of TED and it never fails to wow. In this presentation Hans Rosling demonstrates visually a myriad of development indicators and at one point argues that Africa is not a basket case but has made tremendous strides in social development.

August 5th, 2007 | Category: ICT4D, all, content distribution, social, technology | Leave a comment

Guy Kawasaki gives an interesting presentation (video) on Art of Innovation. It is nice not only from the content but also the presentation point of view.

August 5th, 2007 | Category: all, content distribution, social, technology | Leave a comment

Came across this neat idea of laying disease location data over google maps. ArsTechnica covers it in its article titled, “The wisdom of unhealthy crowds: Web 2.0 takes on the flu“

May 2nd, 2007 | Category: ICT4D, all, content distribution, invention, social, technology | Leave a comment