Robin Good Archive Of Latest News
December 2002

Search Engines Should Sell Access To Their Traffic Data   While most major search engines have just released their most popular search terms for the ending year, I keep puzzling myself over why search engines do not capitalize and sell their search information as a service. If you have ever been involved in marketing or promoting a... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 31

The Myth Of Keywords Effectiveness In Search Engine Marketing   Truth And Reality About The Use Keywords in Web pages Meta-Tags To Obtain Relevant Visibility On Major Search Engines In an effort to support and help the many of you who are trying to achieve or improve their visibility and ranking on major search engines like... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 31

Alternative Copyright Licensing Scheme Formalizes Free Sharing of Content Online   Creative Commons' Free Content Distribution Licensing Service http://www.creativecommons.org/ = breakthrough tool Online Service FREE You're probably familiar with the phrase "All rights reserved" and the little © that goes along with it. Creative Commons wants to help copyright holders send a different message: "Some rights reserved" and our "CC... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 31

The 2002 Virus Hall Of Fame   1) The most tenacious virus: Klez.I (W32/Klez.I). From April to October the 'I' variant of Klez topped the rankings of the most frequently detected viruses by Panda ActiveScan. Its success was due in part to its use of what has been dubbed social engineering, techniques for... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 31

Creating Exact DVD Copies For Backup Purposes   Make Perfect Personal Backup Copies of Your DVDs - New Software Allows Consumers To Make Fair-use Backup Copies of DVDs DVD X COPY http://www.dvdxcopy.com/ = breakthrough tool Software (Win) USD $ 99 Hollywood says that it's illegal to burn a backup copy of your Austin Powers Goldmember DVD, and it... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 31

Hitbox Customer Support Shines Only On Sign-Up   http://www.hitboxprofessional.com A little short note of supplement to HitBox US-based customer service and contract/payment policy is due this time as well. Hitbox is one of the best online services providing live web traffic statistics for web sites. While Hitbox does remain, at least for users with good bandwidth... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 31

The Myth Of FrontPage Placing Garbage In Your HTML code   It must be rather annoying for the vast multitude of Microsoft FrontPage users to keep hearing comments and criticism leading to think that Microsoft FrontPage creates bloated and not really well formed HTML code. Microsoft FrontPage users find this critiques particularly fastidious because most have indeed coded... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 31

Create Loop-based Music Tracks With Visual Blocks   Groove Blender 2 http://www.shockwave.com/sw/content/ grooveblender = breakthrough tool Online Tool (Win & Mac) FREE Groove Blender, now in its second edition is an innovative music-creation tool, created mostly for demonstration and promotional reasons. Though very basic in terms of functionalities Groove Blender offers a truly effective alternative approach to loop-based... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 31

Creating, Managing & Hosting Online Surveys   Surveymonkey http://www.surveymonkey.com = must have Online Service basic subscription: FREE, professional subscription: $19.95/month Surveymonkey is a tool that allows you to design and customize online surveys and to collect and analyze results in real-time. You can utilize multiple choice, drop downs menus, open ended questions and many other types of... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 31

Search Speed, High Relevance, Advanced Search Customization: - Hotbot Strikes Back by Cloning and Refining What Others Do Best   Hotbot http://www.hotbot.com = worth knowing Search Engine FREE Hotbot, the search engine, has completely revamped its search engine by regaining a sober and highly streamlined interface, and strongly targeting to search quality its new facilities. Hotbot is now a well designed front-end to four of the best search engines now... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 31

Audio Search Software Enables Finding A Word In Any Recording At x100,000 Real-Time Speed   Fast-Talk http://www.Fast-Talk.com/ = breakthrough tool Search Engine utility (Win), Online Service TBA Fast-Talk Communications is a company that makes possible for individuals and organizations to quickly and accurately search audio data. Fast-Talk has created the world's first, fast and accurate, telephony/audio/video search engine. With Fast-Talk technology you can now monitor... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 31

Immersive Video Gaming Anticipates Future EduPlaying   Immersive Video Gaming Anticipates Future Playing Styles Reality Fusion Variety Pack, GameCam, Vball http://www.realityfusion.com/corp/ products/ = breakthrough tool Software (Win) FREE Reality Fusion, a company that is developing a very interesting and highly promising web-based video conferencing software+service called TeamView, has also ventured into prototyping what seems to be a... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 31

Open Your Documents For Review And Comments Online   QuickTopic http://www.quicktopic.com Online service and Server Software = breakthrough tool FREE You've authored a document and you'd like your peers to review it. Quick Doc Review gives you an instant private space for gathering comments on any HTML document (Microsoft Word documents too). Your group can comment on each... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 31

Alternatives To YahooGroups   In this article: 1. KAOrg Collaborator 2. Groove Workspace For the ones of you that have been looking for alternatives to the free facilities and services provided by YahooGroups some real alternatives have indeed started springing up in the market that are worth giving a look to. YahooGroups (http://www.yahoogroups.com), formerly... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 31

*Special Feature* - Looking At The Future, Designing 2003   (Forecasts, conjectures, hypotheses, feelings, certainties and plain rants on what the near future has in store for our increasingly networked world) Two distinct and opposite forces are pulling information and our ability to access it in opposite directions. Information control and security issues restrict information access... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 31

SMS Offer No Guarantee Of Privacy   Don't Use SMS for Confidential Communication - Gartner Research http://www3.gartner.com/DisplayDocument? doc_cd=111720 = worth knowing Online Article FREE An interesting lead from Gartner Research, dated November 26th reports about "a mobile phone operator dismissed two workers for providing copies of a user's Short Message Service (SMS) messages to a friend.... Link | cat.: Robin Good -- December 3

Specialized Low-cost Translations Tools for Spanish and Italian   Idiomax http://www.idiomax.com = worth knowing Software Tools (Win) from USD $ 19.95 Idiomax is an online resource for end users or as an economic solution to support translators and language specialists working with the Spanish and Italian languages. Idiomax sells a family of translation products with a well rounded set... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 3

Electronic Dictionaries and Hand-held Translation Tools   Ectaco-Handheld Electronic Dictionaries and Linguistic Software http://www.ectaco.com/ = worth knowing Online Hardware and Software Clearinghouse FREE Ectaco is an online clearinghouse hub for all relating to translation, language and tools and technologies to manage these better. To me, one of the most interesting technologies available on this online shop are... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 3

Online Multilingual Translating Dictionary   Majstro - A multilingual translating dictionary http://www.majstro.com = interesting, promising Online Service FREE If you are familiar with Travlang's translating dictionaries, here is a new on-line multilingual translation dictionary called "Majstro" (www.majstro.com) that is based on the same Ergane database (though some of the wordlists are more recent versions). Unlike... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 3

Online Usability Live Testing Service Reveals Best Design Solutions In Real-Time   Usetracker http://www.usetracker.com = breakthrough tool Online Service from USD $ 25/month A different approach from the one provided by pioneering Clicktracks in trying to provide an effective way to track and analyze user preferences on a web site is the one provided by a new online service called Usetracker. While... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 3

Tracking User Click Preferences Revealed   ClickTracks 3.x http://www.clicktracks.com/ = breakthrough tool Software Tool USD $ 495 This is one of those fresh, innovative and effective tools which make our increasingly complex design and marketing work, once again easier to understand and see through. Clicktracks is a powerful and well designed application which allows the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 3

Free, Easy-To-Use Image Editor With Advanced Functions   VisageSoft Image Editor 1.0 http://www.visagesoft.com/downloads/ get.php/easypdf.exe = must have Software Tool (Win) FREE (comes with Easy PDF Trial) Image Editor 1.0 is a little new, unknown and very-hard-to-find freeware jewel from VisageSoft that provides extended basic image editing capabilities, in a small, easy to use and simple software application. Upon... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 3

Inexpensive Slide Scanning With Traditional Flatbed Scanners   How to Scan 35 mm Slides On a Flatbed Scanner http://www.abstractconcreteworks.com/essays/ scanning/Backlighter.html = must have Article FREE This is an extremely useful article by Don Maxwell on how it is indeed possible to scan 35mm slides on a traditional flatbed scanner. This is a useful tip for all of... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 3

Secret Low-cost Image Editing Powerhouse   IBM PerfectPhoto 1.0 http://www-3.ibm.com/software/ad/ perfectphoto/ = interesting, promising Software Tool (Win) Free to try or USD $ 34.95 Here is another great, very powerful low-cost image editor that has been out for more than two years, but that almost nobody has heard about. The original copyright statement in the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 3

Treemaps Help You Separate The Trees From The Data Forest   SequoiaView http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/ = breakthrough tool Software Tool (Win) FREE SequoiaView is a file mapping and disk browsing tool that utilizes advanced data visualization techniques (treemaps) to allow the end user to view, manage and organize hard disk space in a completely new and more effective fashion. Invented by Jack van... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 3

Rule-Based Usability And Accessibility Testing Tool   LIFT - NN/g http://www.nngroup.com/reports/ accessibility/software/ = interesting, promising Software Tool $ 299 - 549 Web Accessibility has become an important consideration for many Web designers of late. In the US government-affiliated sites must conform to Section 508 accessibility guidelines, while the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) has produced its own... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 3

Eye Candy Footwear Interface   Nikesphere http://www.nike.com/nikesphere/ = worth knowing Online Web site FREE Eye candy or truly innovative interface design. I leave it to you. All Flash-based technology. Jazzy layout attempts to give a feeling for textures and textiles used in Nike apparel. Sport celebrities provide visual and audio testimonials to their use... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 3

Wireframing Techniques for Web Page Design   http://www.grokdotcom.com/wireframing.htm http://www.dmxzone.com/ShowDetail.asp? NewsId=3991 http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/ 002808.php = must have Online Articles The use of wireframes for web page design practices is a standard practice utilized by most web designers. Called in different ways by people coming from different industries, "wire frames" are web page design drafts that set out with... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 3

Nine New Screen-Shaking Online Advertising Technologies   = worth knowing Internet Technologies (Apparently) FREE There is a whole new breed of on-line advertisements that are ripe for prime time, if one could say so. As a matter of fact, I as many others, steer away from ad-rich sites and from those displaying too aggresively... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 3

All About Google And More   GoogleMania http://www.elgoog.nl/ = worth knowing Online Resource FREE This is a rich and interesting resource about all things Google. While the site has disputable links appearing on its home page and on a floating menu, there are no ads, and things are organized in several categories. Indeed most of the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 3

How To Find Consumer Opinions And Reports   Freedom of Choice - Where to Find Useful Consumer Reports by Luigi Canali De Rossi Here is a brief list of reference web sites that can provide you with useful information before deciding to buy a specific product or brand. Through the use of customer reviews, electronic opinions... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 3

Real Time News Monitoring on Your Custom Selected Topics   These alerts provide immediate updates of just about anything you can think of from news and auctions to stock information and product sales. Depending on the service, you can receive the alerts by email, pager, mobile device, on screen pop up messages, instant messenger and browser... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 3

Free Assessment Tool Gets Anonymity Issue Under Control   GetFast http://www.getfast.ca = worth knowing Online Service FREE GetFast, a free online assessment tool reviewed in a previous issue of MasterMind Explorer, has increased the value and usefulness of its free service by addressing and resolving elegantly an important issue connected to the anonymity of the assessments submitted. People had... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 3

Free E-learning Modules Showcase Power of New Soft-Sim Tools   Element K free courses http://www.elementk.com/e-learning/htm/freecourses.asp = worth knowing Online Trial Course Modules FREE ElementK is a major e-learning content provider, showcasing a large collection of courses that can be taken online. As part of its information and marketing efforts ElementK provides access to more than 20 different learning modules that... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 3

Virtual Networked Classroom Software Integrates Access, Support, Remote Control, Conferencing And Presentation Tools   NetOp School 2.5 http://www.crossteccorp.com/ netopschool/index.html = breakthrough tool Software Tool (Win) Free Trial NetOp School is computer-based classroom management as well as a monitoring, presentation and support and file management tool. It competes head-to-head with NetSupport School, another very similar tool reviewed in the previous issue of MasterMind Explorer. NetSupport School... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- December 3

Webconferencing Toolkit Provides Extra-Connectivity   Lotus IBM SameTime 3.0 http://stdemo3.dfw.ibm.com = interesting, promising Software (Win) N/A Lotus Sametime represent IBM major mainstream effort to enter the webconferencing, live presentation and virtual classroom niche with a competitive product. This technology stands head to head with comparable tools/services from HorizonLive, Centra, and many others but it offers... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 3

Author PDF Files FREE And Without Adobe Acrobat   FREE Easy PDF http://www.visagesoft.com/easypdf/ = worth knowing Software (Win) Free Easy PDF is another useful addition to our arsenal of alternative tools to the official Adobe Acrobat Toolset. EasyPDF is designed as a true WYSIWYG editor, and as such it allows you to create and format your documents in any... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 3

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