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Google just announced that you can now insert YouTube videos into any documents in Google Docs. Besides YouTube videos, you can also insert images and text captions.

What is more interesting is the ability to embed your Google Doc presentation onto your blog and it can be of varying sizes. This seems like a direct competition [...]

- Forget Word: 13 Online Word ProcessorsA comprehensive listing of some of the more interesting online word processors available. I’ve personally used Google Docs, Buzzword and Writeboard. The mainstay for me is Google Docs because of its integration with the rest of the Google apps. However, I must say I’m very impressed with the UI [...]

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A really hilarious make-believe video of Bill Gates last day at Microsoft that was shown during his last keynote at the CES 2008. He managed to get quite a number of celebrities to ’star’ in the video such as Bono (of U2), Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Al Gore and a couple of others [...]

A very serious looking bowling competition amongst 4 teams from the Erickson Communities, a provider of retirement communities. A very slickly produced video, indeed. But what was more remarkable was the enthusiasm and seriousness of the seniors in their participation of the bowling championships. I must add that the video has been very slickly produced.

I’ve [...]

Read this article on BBC News about the technology of CAPTCHA (or Completely Automated Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart), which was originally designed to separate humans from computer bots.

Interestingly, besides stopping automated bots from spamming, CAPTCHA also serves a higher purpose of helping university researchers preserve old books and manuscripts.

These old books [...]

Well, when I first read this report via Digg, I thought to myself what was so special about a 75 years old lady who was using a computer for the first time and surfing the web.

What’s special is not that she’s an old lady who become internet-savvy, but the speed of her internet connection. Her [...]