Eco Conservation – Green Solar Charger from Solio
The "Go Green" drive for safer and more stable eco-system is taking on a high tech turn. Very recently, Solio, an international battery and battery accessory manufacturer, has launched an
And some of their new headlines have caught some attention too:
- Solio, plug into the sun! Shop Now!
- Save the planet! Use Solio the eco-friendly solar charger. Now 10% off. CouponCode: GoGreen2008!
- The Universal Hybrid Charger! Shop Solio Now!
The design that caught my attention was a very unique fan-blade design. On reading more I found that Solio features this fan-blade design that allows it to achieve maximum solar area when in use. Just spread out the blades, expose them to direct sunlight either out of doors or affixed to a window, and get ready to take your power on the road.
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CAPTCHA & Intelligent Security – how to use CAPTCHA, reCAPTCHA & Audio CAPTCHA
CAPTCHA is an intelligent question-response testing method to separate automated responses from human’s ability to notice and answer intelligently. You may have seen CAPTCHA while logging into Yahoo! Chat Rooms! & in many places where you have to prove that you are a human and not a computer program.
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CAPTCHA is an abbreviation of Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart, and CAPTCHA is copyrighted by Carnegie Mellon University. It was first used by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas J. Hopper (all of Carnegie Mellon University) and John Langford in 2000.
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Here is an idea – built in Share button for blogs
The blogging technology is around for almost a decade now. And yet there are so many limitations. If you think about it, blogs were meant for personal expressions to be shared. I feel that the organizations have done a terrific job in keeping the blogging programs under open license. That makes it possible for any one to create something new. Even then, I don’t see many of the sharing options coming with the bundle!
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So here is my idea on blogging, and I believe that WordPress and LiveJournal & TypePad and all the other major companies can implement these very easily.
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Amy Tan on Creativity – turning Ordinary into Remarkable
There are a few lectures that stick to your mind for good reasons. Because you can easily relate to them. These are stories from someone’s life that does not seem much different from ours. Every moment of the lecture you hear something that has probably happened to you so many times. The fact that someone, just like you and me, have withstood challenges and have come out successful to be one of the best, is remarkable.
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Amy Tan’s profile is very humble. Born to immigrant Chinese parents, she was prepared to be a doctor and a concert pianist by her parents. Ignoring the social and family pressure, Amy Tan created a niche for herself in the literary world. In this video presentation at TED 2008 , she talks about her perception of creativity. She combines paradoxes and logic to evolve her creative aptitudes.
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Blog Search Tools – find search blog popularity, blog search trends and blog post search volumes in blog posts
Even though blogs have been in the industry for almost 10 years now, their popularity is just rising as the new collaboration tool. And there are 3 tools that are gaining a lot of popularity when it comes to finding popular blog posts, popular searches in blogs and trends on what people are writing about.
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Trendpedia from Attentio , Brussels.
Why I cannot earn money with my blog!
You would expect that people all over the world is looking for ways to make more money, ways to earn more. I did! I also thought that people all over the globe would be looking for freelancing opportunities, jobs to do from home and other part time money making opportunities. They apparently don’t!
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I set out writing this blog thinking that I finally figured out a way to help people with facts and lessons from my experience that would help them to succeed faster, better and not make the same mistakes that I did. But if people do not want to earn extra money, or get rid of their jobs to settle for a small business of their own, well, I shall not be able to make any money from this blog at all!
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Early Bloggers – Mena Trott co-founder of Six Apart
We all know Mena Trott from Six Apart . Back in 2002, she and her husband Ben founded Six Apart blogging platform which now is an international organization. In this brief on TED, Mena Trott goes back to when she first started blogging. It was not the advertising money that she could earn that tempted her. It was her will to write and express about herself and her life to her friends that made her write on DollarShort .
Pangea & Pangea Day – Short Films, Live Music & Visionary Speakers
It’s 4 straight hours of Short Films, Live Music and extra ordinary visions shared all across the world on May 10th 2008 , starting at 1800 GMT. The team has made every effort so that you would not miss the event – its available on locations, on TV, on the internet and even on mobile phones. The event will be broadcast live from six locations worldwide: Cairo, Kigali, London, Los Angeles, Mumbai, and Rio de Janeiro.
Pangea is about transformation. Pangea is about a wish come true. Pangea is about people getting together to make a small difference in the fragile state of the world. 24 short films have been selected from an international competition that generated more than 2,500 submissions from 100+ countries. They were chosen based on their ability to inspire, transform, and help us see the world through another person’s eyes.
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Larry Page and Sergey Brin – Founders of Google on TED
This presentation from Larry Page & Sergey Brin, the co-founders of the multi billion dollars international corporation Google, is from 2004. Though it apparently outdated in terms of the company’s progress and achievements within the subsequent years, it still talks about the fundamental beliefs of the founders of the organization.
This video may not display correctly. So here is the link to the video: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/28 from the TED website.
The founders talk about how their Montessori background has led to the stead fast growth of the company and has continued Google’s dedication to innovative thinking and employee happiness.
