Technology, innovation and love is the theme of  Love Hacking,  a documentary by filmmaker Jenni Nelson. How do you find love in 21stc? Forget the old fashioned matchmaker or blind dates to find a partner in today’s world dominated by Internet, email, chat and Skype. These are the same tools that Silicon Valley-based Tim Heath uses [...]

  At yesterday’s 85th Academy Awards Ang Lee won an academy award for directing his first 3D film Life of Pi based on a novel by Yann Martel. The film went on to win a total of 4 Oscars including for Best Cinematography, Original Score and Visual Effects. This is Mr. Lee’s second academy award. He [...]

Connected cars and parking apps. What is the connection you ask? Think about this – you are cruising along on Interstate 280 in a car with all kinds of bells and whistles like voice-activated commands and smart self-parking. Yes, there is such a thing. Your connected car can park itself once you identify a parking [...]

San Francisco is getting ready for its 10th year celebration of South Asian films. 3rd I Film Festival featuring South Asian films opens today in San Francisco and runs through the 23rd of September 2012.  And  for the first time they will show films in San Jose on September 30th. Here is the link to [...]

Sunil Janah, a pioneering photojournalist, died on June 21, 2012, at his home in Berkeley, California.  He was 94 years old.  Mr. Janah was one of the first photojournalists and social documentors  of India. Recently he received the Padma Bhushan, a civilian award given by the Government of India. This was presented to him at his [...]

  Bangalore special so far in case you missed listening or watching the interviews in our life, people and ideas channel. Our goal is to highlight Bangalore, a city in rapid transition, while remains of an older and gentler times still exist in pockets of the city. Every Thursday, you can expect to see a [...]

I have never done this before, but am doing this since so many of you have asked on the backstory of my interviews. Here is the backstory of how this interview with Prof. Freeman Dyson happened. About 6 years ago there was a lecture on Srinivasan Ramanujan, the brilliant mathematician from Madras at Columbia University. [...]

“A Compulsive Tutor” is how Geoffrey Moore describes Salman Khan of Khan Academy in this video interview, where Khan shares how he started Khan Academy. Khan won the “The Global Benefactor Award” from The Churchill Club in September 2011 for “thinking big” on education, a hot topic button in the US. (Link to Part 1 [...]

YouTube My Facebook. Imagine having your Facebook wall come live with YouTube like videos? What would it look like if you clicked on your friend’s image and it sprang live and streamed a video clip of what they were doing at that very moment? That is precisely what Cedric Vella had in mind when he [...]

Meet Chris Brogan, who heads Human Business Works. He is a blogger and social media, who helps small business with their social media strategy. His central axiom is all how about building relationships and listening to what others have to say. You can follow Chris on Twitter @chrisbrogan