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Business Finance Productivity Social Technology

Project Management made easy

37signals, an internet SaaS company, provides very intuitive, aesthetic, easy to use and free online tools for personal and collaborative project management. The services are chargeable for higher online storage requirements. The site has video demos to show how these tools work; worth giving a look. List is as follows:

Basecamp – project management and colloboration
Highrise – Track deals, clients, vendors, simple CRM
Backpack – Information organizer and calandar
Campfire – Real-time group chat with file sharing

The best feature is that all the conversations, file sharing, to-do lists, etc are archived in a calendar format and can be seen as an overview or can be searched or browsed through later.

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Education Social

Nikon’s Educational site on Flickr

Nikon has teamed up with Flickr to launch a sponsored educational activity on the photo-sharing site, called the Nikon Digital Learning Center. – Mashable!

Nikon Opens Educational site on Flickr

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Innovation Social Technology Travel

Space hotel sees 2012 opening

“Galactic Suite”, the first hotel planned in space, expects to open for business in 2012 and would allow guests to travel around the world in 80 minutes. Its Barcelona-based architects say the space hotel will be the most expensive in the galaxy, costing $4 million for a three-day stay. – CNN

Fly me to the moon: Space hotel sees 2012 opening

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Social Technology Travel

Virgin taking air travel to a higher altitude

Not physically, metaphorically… The kind of flights that are expected in the 21st Century are finally here, well at least in America. Virgin America, the new Airline by Richard Branson’s Virgin group, has an unrivalled in-flight entertainment system. Aesthetics, personal screens (commonplace),  a QWERTY controller (not so common), Linux based systems running Google Maps , chat, etc., Ethernet ports for every seat, and in cabin Wi-Fi! Ironically (and sadly) the services are not available in UK considering that Virgin is British company.

Virgin America: Like a Multimillion-Dollar IPod. That Flies.

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Business Technology

An Internet mogul known by few

Business 2.0 magazine covered the story of Kevin Ham’s life, an internet titan you’ve probably never heard of. A fascinating article.

The man who owns the Internet

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Business Education Innovation Science Social Technology

International WWW Conference

International World Wide Web Conference is a global event that brings together key innovators, decision-makers, technologists, businesses, and standards bodies shaping the Web. The conference is sponsored by the likes of Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Nokia and more.

Organized by the IW3C2 since 1994, the WWW conference is an annual gathering place of the international community to discuss and debate the future evolution of the Web.

Past conference websites contain research papers, podcasts, presentations, posters etc. freely available for those interested.

Past conference websites: http://www2007.org/ http://www2006.org/ http://www2005.org/ and so on…

Next Conference: http://www2008.org/ (Beijing, China, April 2008)

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Health Technology

Laser Printers a Health Risk?

“Workers face a potential health threat from office laser printers that emit large amounts of tiny particles into the air, an Australian research team has found.

Potential effects range from respiratory irritation to effects on the cardiovascular system and cancer, says author Professor Lidia Morawska from the Queensland University of Technology.” – Discovery News

Laser Printers a Health Risk?

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Business Education Finance Social

YAWN: A new breed of affluents

“In the Eighties, the yuppies brayed into their oversized mobiles and Gordon Gekko declared in the film Wall Street that greed was good.

In the Nineties, Harry Enfield’s self-made Brummies boasted that they were “considerably richer than yow”, while City high-fliers guzzled magnums of Champagne and dashed around in their flashy sports cars.

A new generation of the seriously rich has emerged, but with a difference: the ostentation has gone. The new breed is self-made, socially aware, concerned about the planet and gives a lot of money to charity. They are the “Yawns” – young and wealthy but normal.” – Telegraph

Young rich are more Yawn than yuppie

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Science

Time may not exist

An interesting scientific article about space and time. It states that time may just be a faction of human understanding, not a reality. – reddit

Newsflash: Time may not exist

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Social

Liars, Damn Liars and Governments

The American government has been convicted of falsely charging and sentencing two innocent men for a murder they did not commit. The FBI filed charges against these men intentionally, withholding evidence of their innocence. The men remained in the prison for 36 years before the truth surfaced and they sued the government for the act. As a result of a recent ruling, the government now is obligated to pay $101.7 million to the men as compensation. According to a Justice Department attorney, this for a greater cause, but then so are all of them.

U.S. must pay $101.7 million to men framed by FBI