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Book-Sensitive Reading Lamp

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Now isn’t that an view - the Book-sensitive Reading Lamp that was designed by French designers Jun Yasumoto, Alban Le Henry, Olivier Pigasse and Vincent Vandenbrouck. By its looks alone, you can pretty much tell how to use it - the lamp will turn itself off whenever you place a book on it (on the page where you last stopped, of course), turning on whenever you remove the book. Hopefully that is one concept that will assemble its way to the real world soon - we would love to get our hands on something strange like that.

Huh!! This is how the next level of job application may look like!

250 Twitter followers called for for social media job at Best Buy

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You’re reading that right, applicants for the “senior manager - emerging media marketing” position at Best Buy were asked to have a Bachelors degree, two years of mobile media experience and at least 250 Twitter followers.

Best Buy did find someone that fits the profile, so there’s no need to send your resume now. It’s interesting to see that there was no specific requirement for Facebook or other social networks - that tells you how much mindshare Twitter has acquired recently. Expect more companies to follow Best Buy’s example

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Courtesy:technology today!!

Me,poetry and myself.one of my favourites!!!

'if' by rudyard kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master,
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

© If was written by Rudyard Kipling. Contextual material, etc, alan chapman 2000-2009

Necessity is indeed the mother of inventions

Semi-permanent floating homes may be the future in Coastal areas.

The Netherlands, which for years has fought the encroaching ocean, is now considering how to embrace the waters in future city design, Reuters reports.

A number of prototypes for floating cities are being considered. Indeed, the Netherlands may well become a laboratory for such thinking.

A goal is to be able to remove or relocate a building without harming the surrounding environment; the ultimate in sustainability.

Watch Reuters video here.

Oooops! Just complete 7 Telentre strategies

This is just to illustrate on the already posted article below on 7 strategies to manage and run a telentre.I feel the diagram was a bit misbehaving.Enjoy

The world becomes a village : implications of social networks

The world becomes a village – implications of social networks

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7 Rules to Guide in Telecentre creation.

Hi Everyone,
Many of you have discovered or learned about the Magic Number 7.
I'm sure you've heard of "7 Habits of Highly Effective People."
Hei, there are 7 days in a week
Oh ya, there are "7 Deadly Sins" ... Woooo...!
The soft drink "7Up" became popular after changing its name from "Bib-label Lithiate Lemon-Lime Soda.' Ummm ... Ya. No wonder...
Haiiiii .... yattt...!! "The 7 Samurai" of Akira Kurosawa ... and then adapted as "The Magnificent 7" of John Sturges with the Bang...bang...bang...!
There are "7 Wonders of the World."
Now, wait a minute here! EXCUSE Me...! There are gazillions wonders in this world...
But, we chose to have only 7 Wonders of the World... ?

"The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information" by George A Miller is one of the most highly cited paper.
It basically says that our brain has an excellent remembering capacity of 7 items or in 7 chunks.
Hmmm... May be that's why we only have 7 Wonders of the World..
ENOUGH ABOUT NUMBER 7.....

So, how about the Magic number 7 for Telecentre ?
Let me start with this question:
"What are the 7 Strategies for Building Successful Telecentres ?"

What are the 7 items... the 7 chunks .... of strategies?
There are gazillion things on telecentre items/issues out there and we can make gazillions "dish" from it.
So, anyway we'll be writing here what we think as the 7 Strategies. But, we would welcome your opinion on what you think they are.
What we consider important may not be important to you and vice versa. The way we "chunk" things may also be different. We have many ways of "cooking" telecentre dish.
So, here they are according to my perception, as of now, the 7 Strategies for Building Successful Telecentres.

Glad to seare movind albeit at snails speed on the ICT highway

The Global Information Technology Report 2008-2009

Denmark and Sweden once again lead the rankings of The Global Information Technology Report 2008-2009, released for the eighth consecutive year by the World Economic Forum out of 134 countries. The United States follows suit at third followed by Singapore (4), Switzerland (5) and the other Nordic countries together with the Netherlands and Canada complete the top 10.

In Africa, Tunisia remains the leader of the thirty countries of the continent followed by Mauritius (51), South Africa (52), Egypt(76), Botswana(77), Senegal(80), Morocco(86), Nigeria(90), Gambia(91), Namibia(92), Kenya(97), Libya (101), Zambia (102), Ghana(103), Mali(107), Algeria(108), Mauritania (109), Malawi (110), Côte d'Ivoire(111), Madagascar(112), Burkina Faso(113), Lesotho(118), Tanzania(119), Uganda(120), Benin(121), Cameroon(123), Mozambique(124), Ethiopia(129), Burundi(131), Zimbabwe(132), and Chad(134) in the classification of the "Networked Readiness Index 2008-2009 ".