GNC-2009-02-10 #450 Back In Honolulu

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Major case of Jet Lag tonight and we lost the ustream.tv Feed half way through the show tonight which makes me to start to wonder about the reliability of their service. I catch you up on what is happening with a full bevy of tech.. But it is always fun doing the show with very little sleep over past 36 hours.

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OLPC Reboots
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Wireless Change Facts by Sweetwater
DTV Switch Could Leave Many in Dark
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Show Notes:
Living Doll of Cancer Cells
Can I Scan you Please?
Bolivia next South Africa
23 Linux Applications
Kindle 2 Review
Geek Valentines Chart
Free Vomit Comet Rides for Ideas
President Obama names new Cybersecurity Chief
Psystar wins a round in Court
VUDU Box 149.99 50% Discount
Archos to release Android Phone / Tablet PC
AMD 5 New Chips
Steve Ballmer Speech to Politicians
Top Throw away Email Address Services
New York Magazine talks to Twitter
Firefox no Bundling with Windows please
New IM Wars?
Online Book-Keeping
TweetDeck and AlertThingy Head to Head
STS 119 delayed
More Worm Attacks
3 Apps only on Windows 7 Starter Edition
RIAA and Congress team up against Traditional Radio
Blogging you can make Money?
Sync Contacts and Calendar <-->
Spain Energy Positive
Dial Up Still Big

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How much cross linking is too much?

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I am well aware that this is not a new discovery, however the extensive cross linking that some sites use annoys me. This came to mind today when I was reading a story that caught my eye on Gizmodo about a new phishing scam. I find that Gizmodo tends to give only superficial information so I tend to follow through to the originator story for more information. In this case I ended up at another Gawker Media site. This site then linked through to the originating BBC article.

Now the blog world runs on linking to other peoples articles that you find interesting, and the good blogs add value by offering either extra perspective or analysis, or linking an interesting story with complementary information from other sources. The social compact is that the linking article should offer this additional information and/or link through to the originating information in an obvious way. In this case the Gizmodo article offered almost identical information to the Jalopnik article, even given the different perspectives these two sites have.

Recently linking to other articles within your own blog has become slightly frowned upon, although I believe it no longer has an effect on the sites page rank so is declining in use. What is the effect of cross linking to different sites under the same ownership though? I would assume that the article on Gizmodo would have increased the page rank of the Jalopnik one. Is this any different from an in-site cross link though? Is this really any different than a pay-per-post arrangement?

I don’t think this is a practice we should ban, as there are times when it would be reasonable for these refferals to be used. Linking between different sites should have the same effect, to page rank etc, as linking within a site has. Google potentially alreayd takes that into account.

Twonky Media Manager – Digital Experience 2009

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CES 2009 TwonkyMediaTwonkyMedia Manager allows you to share your media on compatible devices in your home. If you want to listen to a genre of music in a specific room you can have the media streamed to that specific device.

CES 2009 DLNA UPnPAt the same time you could be pushing images to your media capable television set.

The TwonkyMedia Manager streams your music, video, photos to devices throughout your home.

The only question that I did not get a firm answer from the folks at TwonkyMedia was how many media devices they support. Reviewing their website I see any device bearing a UPnP or DLNA logo are streaming devices they support.

Sanyo Xacti – Digital Experience 2009

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CES 2009 SanyoDuring our coverage at CES 2009 we utilized Sanyo XACTI cameras for our back channel coverage. The reason we picked the XACTI this year was due to the fact that they devices encode in H.264 / MP4 format.

SANYO XACTILast year we utilized cameras that recorded in .AVI and we lost a lot of time converting the videos into a format we could push to streaming sites.

Sanyo is introducing a full line of new XACTI cameras this year. If your looking for a easy to use camera you will want to check out what the folks at Sanyo have in plan for the XACTI line this year.

PowerStick by Ecosol – Digital Experience 2009

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CES 2009 PowerStickPowerstick is the latest to come out with a recharging device for you iPhone, iPod or other mobile phone. The device comes with a large assortment of adapters and is priced to buy at $59.99

PowerStickYou can find this recharging device at Best Buy. They have compatibility list on their website at PowerStick.com The Powerstick is the winner of a CES Award for Best of Innovation. The device itself can recharged via a USB port on your laptop.

MWV MEADWESTVACO – Digital Experience 2009

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2009 ces meadwestvacoOne would not expect to find a company whose whole business is about packaging at the consumer electronics show. But I walked away from this interview very excited about what this company is bringing to market.

We have all picked up consumer items that have been almost impossible to open. Well the folks at MWV have figured out how to give companies the shelf marketing presence and security needed to protect a product from walking away. While at the same time making the product easy to open with a small cut with scissors.