The TED conference organizers have graciously uploaded the video of the presentation made by Dr. Roy Gould, an astrophysicist from the Harvard Center for Astrophysics, introducing WorldWideTelescope in partnership with Curtis Wong, principal researcher of
Microsoft’s Next Media Research group and head of the project (you might remember him from the Media Browser video on Channel9 with the sexy transition effects and cool sorting and organization features). Besides the streaming Flash video there's a .mp4 video is available for download on the same page.
I remember when I was a kid, I wanted to be an astronomer and we couldn't afford a good telescope and what my father bought for me was barely powerful enough to be able to see the bigger planets; like Jupiter. But thanks to Microsoft Research, soon children who can get online (ofcourse on broadband) will have a whole new universe to explore on their fingertips and right in front of their computer screens. Now, isn't that exciting?
On a more personal note, my long hiatus from blogging can be best explained from the fact that starting from March, 10th 2008 - I'll be joining Isango. The preparation and my commitment towards finishing my last project kept me really busy. Couldn't find time for socializing or even blogging 
My 4 years stint with MediaWeb India ends this week. It's like an end of an era for me, have so much memories from this place. It saddens me that I'd be getting away from regular interaction with PHP code, but then I'm glad too that I'd be working fulltime on ASP.net.