Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology

Revenge of the Right Brain by Daniel H. Pink

Daniel Pink an author of A Whole New Mind explains about transformation of world from one age to another like from Stone age > Ice age > Metal age > Agricultural age > Industrial age > Information age (current age) > Conceptual age.

This is must read article for everyone.
Link for the article.

Google Labs: Introduces Voice Search in Hyderabad

Google Phone Search - Voice Search for Hyderabad, India
Google Phone Search is a new pilot service making local business information, movie times and real time flight status accessible from any phone. This sevice is completely free.

http://labs.google.co.in/phonesearch/index.html

Isn't google changing the world around for good!!! I wish one day I will be a part google's innovation team to come with such a great ideas.

Career Boosters for Success

This chunk of information I have collected from one of the most interactive forum ie. IxDA (Interaction Design Association).Over there, Sebi Tauciuc had started very good post about "what helped most in your career" where all the genius people have shared their experience and listed out thing(s) that they think have contributed to most of their success, which have brought value to their work, which have lead to where they are now and which have improved their design sense and skills.

• Failure
• Harsh Criticism
• Rejection
• Unemployment
• Experience
• Belief in oneself
• Unbounded Curiosity
• Mentors
• Confidence
• Passion
• Argue
• Explore
• Knowledge Transfer
• Blogs
• Presentation
• Articles
• Practice
• Reading
• Professional Association
• HFI Certification
• self actualization
• to take criticism gracefully

Please feel free to share more of your thing(s) which motivated you in your career.

Web Parts

Just few days back attended one of the seminar which talked about Web Parts. While going through it http://www.igoogle.com/ comes into mind. This sort of things are definately used heavily in future and soon it will be seen everywhere. It gives user a full control over the look and feel of the site and it allows him to switch on/off sections of his choice.

A web part is an ASP.NET server control which is added to a Web Part Zone on Web Part Pages by users at run time. Web Parts are an integrated set of controls for creating Web sites that enable end users to modify the content, appearance, and behavior of Web pages directly from a browser.

wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_part

Future is of mobility : Intel's Vision

An amazing technology to come. It will definately make the life easier.

Microsoft Surface - The next generation of computer

The software giant announced at the D5 conference that it’s built a new touchscreen computer—a coffee table that will change the world. Go inside its top-secret development with PopularMechanics.com, then forget the keyboard and mouse: The next generation of computer interfaces will be hands-on.

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid932579976/bclid932553050/bctid933742930

Have a look at the above video, it is an amazing technology.

Validate your webpage with W3C Validation Service

W3C Validation Service is a free service that checks documents like HTML for conformance to W3C Recommendations and other standards.

By keen i tried www.google.com and surprising the result was "48 errors" http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline ..... Well.... my website www.PrashantPoladia.com also has "51 errors" this is bad side of me.... but i will definately keep eye on this to change that to "100% ok" result.

And known sites which have passed through this test are:
Oinam (brajeshwar) and Microsoft

Check your sites too...... its interesting.