MP4Cam2AVI is a MPEG4 to AVI converter/joiner for digital MPEG4 cameras, it makes their clips DivX/XviD compatible. MJPEG and H263 are supported as well. Program doesn't re-encode video, just passes video data to avi container. - Erno Hannink
I'm still laughing just because it's making you laugh so much. I haven't had any milk in ages, but I can feel some getting ready to come out of my nose. - Pete Delucchi
Filezilla here too, was CuteFTP for years heh, did the job. - Mo Kargas
I just love the latest version of SmartFTP - multiple tabs - so you can upload to multiple sites at the same time. Also great that it let's you unzip files in the browser and that it creates a Que for files that need to be uploaded. Dit not find that on alternatives like FileZilla, Core FTP or WinSCP - Erno Hannink
I liked CoreFTP when I was on Windows. - Andrew Trinh
@Rasheen, downloading FireFTP now to investigate - thanks - Erno Hannink
heb moeite met FileZilla - kan niet meerder sites naast elkaar open hebben als in SmartFTP. Ook moet je wachten om een volgende directory te uploaden todat deze klaar is. Bij SmartFTP gaat dat in de Queue. - Erno Hannink
Read the same article yesterday about Google/Digg. I was trying to scratch my head to find a acquired success? Jyri is super smart but Jaiku has been killed by Google. - sam sethi
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The GrandCentral acquisition has me gnashing my teeth - it was a great start for a service but it has some rough edges. And Google acquired them more than a year ago and did nothing with them since. - Mitch Wagner
google is like general motors buying up cool carburetor ideas and hiding them? - Gregory Lent
yeah mitch, GC is a sad example. Such promise and it seems they haven't moved an inch. - Anthony Citrano
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I really miss Jaiku and Jyri. Love Twitter but adore Jaiku. Since it was purchased by Google I did not do much with it anymore. Shame. - Erno Hannink
mmm, don't blame Google for "sacrificed startups" - IMO they are done with sell-off in mind and doesn't necessarily desgined to exist long time, like diploma or course projects in university... as for Jaiku - well, guys/girls who stops you to use it, your mother or any other Significant-Other? - silpol
any single survey is just set of opinions but definitely not a truth in last instance - I mean when figuring out scientific-based facts, democracy tools shall be used moderately - silpol
no different than the far more successful acquirer in tech m&a - cisco - the negotiating tactics otoh vary widely - Scott Moskowitz
I wonder if when I changed my permalinks to title from number, it got hosed. Solis, sorry to take the PR discussion off track. I'm in trrrrroubbbbleee now!!! i also put the technorati widget on. i'll go take it off. thx guys. as you were. - jeneane sessum
For that price I would not only expect it to be nice to type on but also give me a hand massage and make me coffee in the morning - Toby Graham
Chris! You should have waited for the Optimus Tactus! http://tinyurl.com/2szxve Anyways, I am thinking of picking up a smaller version that will not make me take out a second mortgage. - Michael Forian
1600 bucks?!! wasn't it supposed to be more like 180 bucks? way too much. but I guess they will make their profit. - Alexander Kucera
to geeky for me - and way to expensive for a keyboard - Erno Hannink
They did a review on Tekzilla with Ryan Block. Turns out it's not that great of an actual keyboard. - Paul Reynolds
Way too expensive for a crappy keyboard, if it was ergonomic it would still be too expensive... - SoN9ne
I'll wait... in 3 years this will be a $300 keyboard and an option on laptops. - Bill Sodeman
i just don't get it. this should have been vaporware. i honestly have no use for this at all. maybe good for my mother, who has to look down at her keyboard when she types. - revrev
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"What Is This Article About?
For the past month, I've been away from the computer screen. Now I'm back reading on it many hours a day. Which got me thinking: How do we read online?" - Mona N.
I'm getting more and more trouble with my comments on my blog lately. First of all, more spammers are fooling me into approving their comments. I have to spend a lot more time really carefully reading their comments and looking at the links they put in. Second, I'm getting more fake positives that I have to search out of my spam bucket (which is really hard because I'm getting thousands of spams per day). Third, I just hate dealing with it. - Robert Scoble
There is an alternative to Akismet called Defensio available at http://defensio.com/ . Personally I haven't used it, but people say that it is better than Akismet in certain circumstances. - Sudar
Ditch comments. Link to the FriendFeed entry and let discussions happen here. Easy for me to say! - Paul Reynolds
Paul: Believe me, I am seriously considering just that. - Robert Scoble
How long before comment bots are adapted to post to FF -- probably not long as a api exists - Brian Sullivan
I like Pauls idea, its more useful as Akismet isn't as useful as it once was. You could also implement http://disqus.com/ which is what VentureBeat and Fred Wilson use. It allows you to add moderators too, so they can control the spam too. - Nicholas James
Brian: yeah, I'm sure spam will make an appearance here. It'll be interesting to see how that'll happen. - Robert Scoble
@Robert. Avoiding spam is why having an auto-follow feature for those that friend you is not such a good idea. A few weeks ago got a follow notice from what was obviously a spammer. Took me several attempts to delete them from following. - Dave Martin
Spamming here should be easy w/ the API. I can see a Twhirl like spammer tool popping up soon - Jeff Douglass
The FriendFeed guys so far have played smart. I'm sure they'll have a system in place to prevent spamming even with the API - Nicholas James
I've never auto-followed on Twitter for that reason. Anyway, it goes without saying that even with genuine users you're not automatically going to be mutually interesting to each other. I've not had a lot of problem with Askimet, but since joining Disqus the askimet spam has dropped to practically zip. I actually joined Disqus to investigate the features, didn't think about the spam aspect I must admit though! - Ian May
I have used Spam Karma 2 in combination with Akismet. That worked like a charm. But the programmer of SK2 stopped the support and made it open source. So I am not sure if this will continue to be a good solution. - Erno Hannink
@Ian. Disqus works great for me too. - Dave Martin
Use Friend Feed. Just lockdown the comments. Though spammers will come to friend feed soon i bet - Britney Mason
I am not allowing comments in my next blog update, trackbacks though.. - Michael J. Cohen (mjc)
Hey scobleizer, has your google pagerank increased lately? Maybe that explains the increase - Michael J. Cohen (mjc)
Michael: nah, it's been at 7 for years. - Robert Scoble
At least with FF/Twitter, the spam is effectively blocked in a distributed way. If a Spammer (oh, sorry I mean SEO Expert) posts a comment, everyone blocks it. And the poor solitary poster doesn't have to sift through a river of comments. Enough blocks should throw up a red flag to FF. Also, FF (and Twitter) implements "nofollow" links so there's less compelling reason to do it for Google Juice. - Paul Reynolds
“http://www.readwriteweb.com/ar... says that Bloglines is more popular that Googler Reader. I'm curious--do you use Bloglines, Google Reader, or Something Else?”
I almost wrote that bloglines is mostly a forgotten product, but then I did some research and came across the data from Hitwise that proved me wrong - personally, I use Feeddemon and GReader - Frederic
Frederic, it's more likely Hitwise is wrong. - Louis Gray
hitwise may have undercounted. see ionut's comment in the article. Reader's url is www.google.com/reader and not reader.google.com. reader.google.com simply redirects to www.google.com/reader. A different data point - searches for google reader outnumber bloglines - try google insight or google trends. - Atul Arora
I have never heard of anyone using anything but GReader until David just said he uses Bloglines... - ♫ Rahsheen™
We recently did a research around this and had a very hard time finding bloglines users but looking at the compete data, they seem to have 500K month visitors and I have been hearing them having about 50-100K unique visitors per day. - Edwin Khodabakchian
@louis and @atul I had the same concern, but in the comments, Hitwise points out that they did look at the right URL - GReader clearly has the momentum, but let's not forget that bloglines has been around for a lot longer and still has a lot of loyal users (even if they are not in FF :) - Frederic
Used Google Reader, then Bloglines. Now not really using either due to FF. - Wade Dorrell
None. Have switched to FF...maybe I am hooked by the customer delight angle. Maybe it is the fact that it lulls me into thinking I have discovered and stumbled and discovered something new. - kamla bhatt
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