We did this once with a laptop battery. They are built in the same principle – smaller common rechargeable batteries.
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Build Your Own Video Community With Lighttpd And FlowPlayer
August 20, 2007 – 9:30 am
I love articles like this. “This article shows how you can build your own video community using lighttpd with its mod_flv_streaming module (for streaming .flv videos, the format used by most major video communities such as YouTube) and its mod_secdownload module (for preventing hotlinking of the videos). I will use FlowPlayer as the video player, [...]
‘Crowd Farms’ could offer alternative energy
August 15, 2007 – 9:04 am
How many people does it take to launch the space shuttle? The answer is 84,162,203, all of them taking a single step in a Crowd Farming system developed by MIT students James Graham and Thaddeus Jusczyk. Together, they have proposed the creation of a people powered power plant (an idea similar to human-powered gyms, and [...]
wikipedia edits from interesting organizations
August 14, 2007 – 4:37 pm
This is kind of cool. This site back traced IP’s of anonymous edits in wikipedia to IP blocks of big corporations. Interesting to see what employees/PR/Marketing people from these companies edited into wikipedia. Wikipedia is an open project and tools like this help with its transparency. I am all for privacy but if you want [...]
MySpace profit is $10 million on revenues of $550 million
August 14, 2007 – 1:12 pm
“News Corp. said its Fox Interactive unit, which largely consists of MySpace, turned a profit of $10 million on revenue of $550 million for the fiscal year ending June 30.” wow Both on the revenue and on the tiny margin they have. What do they spend all that $ on?
Twelve Tips for Growing Positive Communities Online
August 14, 2007 – 12:52 pm
good reading The highlights: Are you right for this job? Publish conduct guidelines Set a good example Seeding: Invite and encourage civil people Prevent comment spam Work behind the scenes Highlight the best contributions Don’t allow anonymous comments Moderate comments and/or posts Require user registration Shut down destructive threads Keep your sense of humor
Puzzling Ancient Artifacts
August 12, 2007 – 7:37 am
I like history and archeology a lot. The stranger the better. When I was a kid I read Chariots of the Gods and other Erich von Daniken’s books many many times. As a kid you are less skeptical but those were different times. Today the Internet (that was not available to ordinary people those days) [...]
Wind-up MP3/video player
August 10, 2007 – 5:28 pm
saw this at boingboing One minute of winding gives you 40 minutes of playback, and the device can also charge mobile phones and has a built-in flashlight. It plays mp3, wma, asf, wav, mp4, and has an FM radio, an analog recorder, and a photo-viewer. You can wind it for 20 hours’ worth of playback. [...]
75% of the people who download Firefox don’t become active users
August 10, 2007 – 4:04 pm
According to the Mozilla wiki: “In order for Firefox to reach our market share goals, we need to improve our ability to retain users. Currently, approximately 50% of the people who download Firefox actually try it and about 50% of those people continue to use it actively.” Firefox’s claims to success have been supported by [...]
