Muses of Murari

This week’s links :

• School Choice. This is one of the significant things I discovered this week. This is a system, where government or individuals directly pay, via school vouchers, for the poor children to study in the schools of their choice. I think this system makes more sense for a country like India. It is heartening to hear certain organization actually doing it. Read more about it here. And the results of one such implementation here.
• I’ve been using more than couple of browsers. And one of them, Opera, I use it to connect to my gmail accounts using IMAP. Opera released a new feature called Opera Unite. One of the things that Opera Unite has, web server embedded in browser. And photo sharing tool. And file sharing tool too. And things like that. It is cool, except that when I tried to use it. I couldn’t access my own shared stuff on the browsers other than Opera! Here is a brilliant article on Opera Unite. Read it in your leisure.
• I usually follow Indian startup stories, rants and other things. But not religiously follow it. Here are the couple of rants by entrepreneurs on India’s realistic market share in mobile space and on poison pill of Indian startups, I heard this week.
• Watch out – Big Blue trending on cloud computing in corporate world. When I.B.M. talks, people do listen.
• Twitter success going places. How Iranians used Twitter to cover their election story and slammed down CNN on its failure to cover the story.
• Spam can pose bad boy for environment too!  Here is the article in Economist explains how.

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