Archive for December, 2007

Kids at the Puppet Theater: Just Look at Their Faces

Oh my God, these beautiful, vivid, threatening, distorted and lovely faces kids can show at a puppet theater… Do you think these kinds of things could still happen, or we are much too trained in digital videos and individual consumption? Well I can only hope that the OX laptop will bring so much life into […]

Unwrapping the XO Laptop Box & Discovering the Apps

The new XO Laptop in the Give 1 Get 1 program arrived yesterday (Dec 18) and we started to unwrap it (it would be great to see how kids are opening the laptop box in a developing nation - not in a classroom setting necessarily).
So here’s our monkey reaction:

The XO laptop […]

We Got the XO Laptop (aka The Hundred Dollar Kid Laptop)!!

I am totally excited, and can hardly wait to open up the brownish box of the XO Laptop, which was just placed on the porch of the house nonchalantly. I am so over the moon I even screwed up the password of the blog several times - wow, I could jump around and jump […]

Wow! The Comics Video Social Networking Site Has Arrived: Comflix.net

I guess there were other startups already working on a comics-based social networking site, but Comflix came out as a bomb first, exploding on AdAge: “Comflix is the first — and, at the moment, only — comic-inspired, ad-supported video network. … Comflix takes work from comic-book publisher Platinum and turns it into videos. Together, […]