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Quoting the TOI:

He’s been a poster boy of Indian infotech, co-founded a company that has become a byword for participative entrepreneurship, given Thomas Friedman the idea for the bestselling ‘The World Is Flat’, and himself penned a book, ‘Imagining India’.

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Couldn’t help my geek ego,
grabbed it right at 9.31am IST
http://www.facebook.com/lalitpatel

You can cry all you want but your cry wont get you no where;
You can run all you want but your mind wont get you no where;
You can scream all you want but your scream wont get you no where;
You can dream all you want ‘coz your dream might get you somewhere.

If you don’t give a damn or you don’t understand, its like you going nowhere. (more…)

Amazon S3 is a very useful service. S3, according to the official Amazon Web Services website is

Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

Its a no frills service and does exactly what it promises — makes it easy for developers so that they can concentrate on features and leave the scaling to Amazon. If you are new to Amazon S3, heres a good starting guide for you.

S3 is like a sharp sword, you must know how to play with it lest you can hurt yourself. Thats exactly what happened to me. (more…)

Last year while I was at SlideShare.net, me and my friends were thinking of some cool ways to use our API. At the same time we were checking out emails from our users about how they are using sideshows in more fun way. Just then we came to know about PowerPoint Karaoke here and here.

Demo

After a few hours of javascript hacking, this is what I came up with.
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Aksharabhyas is a interactive game for children to learn Oriya. I made this game for the school Akshara to promote multilingual education among children and to encourage the use of Oriya (Odia) in schools.

Download: Aksharabhyas (zip 605kb)

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Google’s Project 10¹⁰⁰ is a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible.

Its your chance to make a big impact by affecting lives of billions of people around the globe. Your idea, Google’s implementation.

Or is it that Google wants to fool people to give them their ideas so that it can get richer? Either ways, its good that someone’s thinking about the Earth.

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgSRwOZtDQ8

A beautiful piece of science and art. More info here and here.

Youtube: http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=pHO1JTNPPOU

Reminds me of one of the quotes in my hostel dorm:

Another day passed and you still haven’t done anything!

You might have heard about the recent Floods in Orissa. Its a unfortunate event for Orissa and its people. Its one of the most worst flood to hit Orissa ever. It has already displaced 5 lakh people and relief operations are facing difficulties as many areas are totally cutoff by road.

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