Japanese Turn to Indian Education System
The Japanese sensing a degradation in their education system and loosing confidence in it, is looking towards Indian style education, to try and keep up with China and India, the new rising powers of Asia.
T-Mobile Support
Ryan from 37signals shares a lesson from T-Mobile’s excellent support.
New Year Resolution Reminders
Having difficulty sticking to your new year resolutions? Take a look at Kiruba’s list of online applications which can help you stay the course with your new year resolutions.
The more we know, the less innovative we get
A NYTimes article which takes a look at how gaining knowledge limits innovative thinking.
“People who design products are experts cursed by their knowledge, and they can’t imagine what it’s like to be as ignorant as the rest of us.”
Google Blog Stats For 2007
Google official blogging stats and post highlights for 2007.
Buzzwords of 2007
Buzzwords which are the tattoos, scars and medals of 2007 from NYTimes.
Quote part of webpage as image
Kwout, a new way to quote parts of a webpage as an image. The kwout bookmarklet pops up a screenshot of the page, which can then be used to select the page area to crop, and finally the generated embed code can be used to post the image.
No more Netscape
Due to lack of enough users, AOL is going to cease further development of Netscape browser from February 2008. AOL will be recommending Firefox to current Netscape users.
Accounting Tips for Freelancers
Some useful accounting tips for freelancers from Freelance Switch
What happened on your birthday?
A search site to find out what happened historically on the day you were born.
Web 2.0: 2007 recap
A recap of some of the web 2.0 stories covered by GigaOM
Roofing mogul dies after falling through roof
91st-richest man and billionaire Ken Hendricks, a roofing company owner dies after falling from his home garage’s roof. An ironic yet tragic story.
US: Unfriendliest Skies
When it comes to service, US is one of the friendliest places in the world, yet in the skies it has become one of the unfriendliest. Pico Iyer of New York Times wonders why, and Elliott Hester, a flight attendant tries to answer.
China inaugurates home grown commercial aircraft
China has held a ceremony to inaugurate the ARJ-21, China’s home grown 85 seater commercial aircraft, which will go into production in 2009. Cheap Chinese aircrafts for the future of air travel, nice!
