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.
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)
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.
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 gotta see this… so that when some one insults you, you just don’t stare and wonder w00t!
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Excellence and perfection are so relative terms that its very difficult to explain or describe your thoughts about them to a second person. Even if you try your best to explain, often you fail to produce the same spark that kindles in you.
The following short story was forwarded to me by my friend Ameet.
This presentation is the winner of the World’s Best Presentation Contest 2008 organized by SlideShare.net
Interestingly, the same guy won the 1st prize last year for his presentation Shift Happens. Both of his presentations have a similar theme, they talk about statistics with the motive of generating awareness (or an emotion of insecurity) in the viewer and are thought provoking, I am not too sure about the authenticity of the statistics they bear. Nevertheless the presentation style is awesome. I loved it.
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I am awake late night watching this thought provoking video. I just finished listening to it 3rd time now.
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