Category Archive for 'general'

TED talks about India

I’ve discovered the TED conferences last summer and have to admit I’m quite fund of them. The variety of subjects and the quality of the lecturers make these talks mostly interesting.
I’ve recently stumbled across some highly interesting talks dealing with India and I wanted to shared them.
Here they are:

Devdutt Pattanaik: East vs. West – the [...]

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Did you know?

Here is the 2008 version of “Did you know?” now in video mode.

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The War of the Worlds

Seventy years ago, Orson Welles aired The War of the Worlds. It was performed as a Halloween episode of the Mercury Theatre on the Air series on October 30, 1938 and aired over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network.
Directed and narrated by Orson Welles, the episode was an adaptation of H. G. Wells novel The [...]

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If you don’t think you can, you should definitely try.
The idea behind Shutdown Day is to find out how many people can go without a computer for one whole day, and what will happen if we all participate.

Links:

http://www.shutdownday.org/

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Everybody now heard and read about Microsoft’s decision to take 1.6 % of Facebook. A 240 M$ deal. Not so bad. But what does this mean?
The official answer is that Microsoft will be Facebook’s exclusive advertising company. Is that truly worth 240 M$?
There probably more behind this.
What will this mean for Microsoft’s Live Spaces? It [...]

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