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I bought my camera from Amazon (a Canon SD900) years ago and when they launched the Eye-Fi based on my past buying preferences they sent me a special offer for the Eye-Fi Wireless SD Card. Otherwise I would never have found this very cool little devi

Totally goofy but humorous Floppy Drive video. Updated: Realized that this video autoplayed so I substituted screenshot and which links to the original page. Technorati Tags: data transfer, Humor SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Old School Data Tr

Do you know what Moore’s, Metcalfe’s,and Reed’s Law are and how they are related? Have your read Wealth of Networks, Democratizing Innovation, Free Culture, The Long Tail, and Small is the New Big? Find out why in this excellent vid

Thanks to Geek and Poke for a great cartoon. Technorati Tags: Cluetrain, Enteprise 2.0, Insincerity SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Clueless vs. Cluetrain", url: "http://socializedsoftware.com/2008/05/10/clueless-vs-cluetrain/" });

Today I am attending Blog Carolinas a social media conference being held in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park (that’s halfway between Raleigh and Durham). I am particularly interesting on hearing Andy Beal’s session on Online

I remember when the big open source debate was whether a piece of software was really open source, meaning it was released under an OSI-approved license. The tides are shifting, debates now center around which open source license to use. Adding to th

Matt Asay spun up a cool video just like Soylent Green, open source software is people. Challengers of Open Source: Music video Uploaded by mjasay Technorati Tags: Matt Asay, Open Source, People SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Open Source is abo

It seems that open source maven, Matt Asay along with well-known Microsoft blogger Mary Jo Foley have come to the conclusion that Microsoft doesn’t need open source. Asay contends that Microsoft’s open source activity has more to do with

It looks like the MythTV front-end can be run on a Nokia 810 tablet. While it’s still and alpha-level port it’s still very cool. You can also use a Nokia tablet as a remote using Mythtomer. At $400 bucks that’s a little salty for

Have you ever tried to embed a video in Wordpress and have the embed code get mangled or not render at all. That’s been a problem for me lately. That’s until I found VideoEmbedder Plugin for Wordpress. Video Embedder allows you to specify