This video has been doing rounds in the social media circles for some time now and is definitely worth the time. Watch the Fuhrer rant over the failure of ESRI and ArcGIS.

The Free and Open Source Software Learning Center (FOSSLC), which has its roots tied to the success of OSBOOTCAMP is a non-profit organization with a vision to improve lives with open source. It provides conference information, webcasts, videos and workshops that teach skills with open source software. Besides its mission to educate people who have [...]

Tags: , ,

Just noticed today, ESRI has made available proceedings of the 2009 Developer Summit at http://proceedings.esri.com/library/…
The proceedings include code demonstrations and presentations (slides and video) by the EDN team and ESRI users for

Presummit Seminar
Technical sessions
Developer Keynote session
User Presentations
Special Interest Group Meeting and
Demo Theater Presentations

Among the GIS blog world, this is the fourth posting today on ESRI’s official YouTube channel.

ESRI operates a channel on YouTube under then name esritv which is a useful resource with videos on product demos, conference presentations, howto’s, process work flows and other interesting stuff.
It so happens that many of the videos uploaded on [...]

Tags: , ,

This is no new news (definitely not for users of ESRI products), but for all those who may have missed the buzz around the latest version of ArcGIS Explorer which is soon to be released during the ESRI Developer Summit ‘09, here’s a quick preview of the upcoming 900 version.

For those of you who are not aware, ESRI publishes video tutorials on its free subscription channel at Viddler.com on its wide range of products.
Here’s one interesting video on how one can enhance the search and find capabilities of ArcGIS Explorer by adding a Geonames Search task that is available from the resource center.

The Explorer [...]