Archive for August, 2007

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

ISpeakHindi is growing

The hits and visitor counts to ISpeakHindi.com have been growing steadily.  Also, I have not done much site promotion and yet the site is showing up on other people’s blogs, on dmoz.org, and several other places.  It is very exciting to think that after I get through some of the content generation, site clean up [...]

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Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

Virgin America - In flight entertainment

You have got to check out Virgin America’s inflight entertainment system:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/10/mega-hands-on-virgin-americas-airbus-a320-with-red-in-flight-e/
However, unless you live on the west or east coast, you probably won’t be flying with them soon:
http://www.letvafly.com/va/infoDeskRouteMap.do?method=showcheckInOption&pageName=routeMap

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Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

OpenId.net!is

One username and password for all the sites that you use!  Wait doesn’t Microsoft do that with Passport?  Yeah, but what if you don’t trust Microsoft?
Hummm….  Well, what do you think about this scheme:  You can choose any authentication provider be it a very establish, trusted company like Verisign or a niche player like www.MyOpenId.com.  [...]

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Monday, August 6th, 2007

Interesting things from Laptop.org

1. Walter Bender met with Carole Wacey of Mouse.org. Mouse works with youth on technology mentoring programs. Children at Mouse.org are already actively engaged in authoring tutorials and videos about the XO and the older children (middle and high school) are interested in mentoring the elementary-school children who would be getting the XOs.
3. Villa Cardal: [...]

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