The hits and visitor counts to ISpeakHindi.com have been growing steadily.  Also, I have not done much site promotion and yet the site is showing up on other people’s blogs, on dmoz.org, and several other places.  It is very exciting to think that after I get through some of the content generation, site clean up activities that I plan, then I can start working on site promotion and the traffic should really grow.

You have got to check out Virgin America’s inflight entertainment system:

www.engadget.com/2007/02/10/mega-hands-on-virgin-americas-airbus-a320-with-red-in-flight-e/

However, unless you live on the west or east coast, you probably won’t be flying with them soon:

www.letvafly.com/va/infoDeskRouteMap.do?method=showcheckInOption&pageName=routeMap

One username and password for all the sites that you use!  Wait doesn’t Microsoft do that with Passport?  Yeah, but what if you don’t trust Microsoft?

Hummm….  Well, what do you think about this scheme:  You can choose any authentication provider be it a very establish, trusted company like Verisign or a niche player like www.MyOpenId.com.  And any site that implements the OpenID protocol can use that ID.

This is something I have  been wanting to see for a long time.  Check it out at www.OpenId.net.  Also, there is a wordpress plugin verselogic.net/projects/wordpress/wordpress-openid-plugin/

So, expect to see all my sites OpenID enabled soon.

1. Walter Bender met with Carole Wacey of Mouse.org. Mouse works with youth on technology mentoring programs. Children at Mouse.org are already actively engaged in authoring tutorials and videos about the XO and the older children (middle and high school) are interested in mentoring the elementary-school children who would be getting the XOs.

3. Villa Cardal: While anyone can watch videos on YouTube, children with XOs are posting videos. A video shot on an XO, “parto de una vaca (birth of a calf),” was posted by a 10-year-old child who is participating in the Villa Cardal trial in Uruguay (Please see www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=BOzBTGGVWNg).

5. $1 video microscope: A video of Mary Lou’s prototype microscope attachment for the XO video camera is posted on the web (Please see www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI28-IS9AII). In the video, she compares various LCD screens. The microscope, which has ~ 100× magnification, could be useful to analyzing water quality, among other things.