Triumphs Personified

This is my first blogpost from my iPod. Well what is so diferent about this post? I am going to be an uncle shortly. Hard to imagine that I would officially be an uncle so here I am, sitting in the lobby of the hospital that would be pointed out from google earth some day to point the place she was born. I just know it from the inside that it's going to be a girl and I am going to pamper her to limits.  She is already very lucky enough to be born in the city having the worlds best weather apart from having the world best uncle. Well, Today is just perfectly bright and sunny outside so personally I would prefer calling her 'sunshine'. What a lovely name right? One of my best friends prefers calling one of my good friends by that name. I don't mind telling you guys thats the place from where I have picked up this name. Thanks bimlees.

Today, post the announcement of 'Google Wave Extensions' over  here , something made me realize that probably this may be a good news for the eLearning folks. Well, I know this was bound to happen one day but probably this is just the beginning. Google Wave probably may have more surprises for us.  Integration of Flash SWF OR HTML pages with Wave would have probably been on the Google's agenda but till date Wave was missing all the action without the Flash support. The yes/no gadget was the only known way of easily integrating an activity on Wave but post today's announcement of the iFrame extension, watch out for more surprises. I was able to integrate a Flash movie right inside my Wave. Technically this is probably what the eLearning folks were waiting for. Flash is still not everything, there is more. But since they have support for HTML, this can pretty much be used to embed your whole course right inside your Wave where you can add your audience/s...

Pranav Mistry from MIT, probably a year back at TED announced a device called as the "Sixth Sense" which he described as a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around with digital information and lets one use the natural hand gestures to interact with that information. Quite a mouthful! Well, like every time Microsoft seems to have got inspired from that and has teamed up with brains from the Mellon University for "Skinput". Check out this video. But somewhere earlier there are chances that probably Pranav might have got inspired from Microsoft Surface. Looks like a 'chicken first or the egg' kind of exercise here. Sometimes I feel that had it not been Apple we would have still seen a mouse-less world. Obviously it is not about who did it, its about who brought mouse into production and proclaimed it as an invention. Post Apple's invention of converting a pointing device concept into reality, the popularity/usability/accep...