Robin Good Archive Of Latest News
February 2005

Marqui Mission Completed: Good Reports   The Marqui paid assignment mission is behind me. It is time to draw some conclusions, to evaluate the results and to understand whether this was a wise choice or an error of youth. This reporting effort is part of my paid assignment for Marqui. The research and reporting... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 28

Robin Good Expands Its Reach: MasterNewMedia Italia Is Up!   An Italian edition of Robin Good's MasterNewMedia goes live today on the Web, after lots of preparation, work and passionate contributions made by the two brave Italian editors behind it: Alessandro Banchelli and Chiara Monetti. The Italian edition will showcase a daily version of all of... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 28

Podcast Straight From Your Web Server: Podcastamatic   If executing a little Perl script doesn't scare you off, if you have your own web server running and if you're interested to turn your MP3 recordings into a podcast, then read on. Photo credit: by Bianca De Blok Kenward Bradley, a Chicago-based programmer with a passion for... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 28

Create Flash Presentations On The Web: Shaker   Last week Lawrence Lessig sent out a request for a cheap and simple, cross-platform solution to control the delivery of a presentation remotely. The conversations that followed in the blog's comments section are a very interesting read, although no true 'killer' solution is provided yet. For... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 27

Final Evaluation: Marqui CMS Review - Part VI   Here I am, ready to give some very personal summary evaluation and assessment to the Marqui CMS. This reporting effort is part of my paid assignment for Marqui. The research and reporting work done so far by me on the Marqui CMS (see list at the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 26

Free Voice-Over And Audio Dubbing Software: DubIt, Courtesy Of TechSmith   On MasterViews International presentation expert Chiara Monetti points at a little tool that allows you to add a voice-over to images and movies. The best part about DubIt Audio Editor is that it is provided for free by TechSmith, whose flagships SnagIt and Camtasia Studio have... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Chiara Monetti - MasterViews International -- February 26

The SP2 Nightmare: Why I Will Never Install Or Buy Again A Microsoft OS   I am sincerely dismayed. Speechless. This Microsoft thing is just a nightmare. Not that I didn't know before...but when you hit your nose head into a thick glass wall you tend to realize with greater depth that what looks transparent maybe just as hard as steel. What happened? ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 25

The Personal Media Aggregator: What It Is And Why It Will Bring A Revolution To Creation Of Vertical Powerful Online Communities   Personal Media Aggregators are the road to create instant-vertical-communities by way of becoming fulcrum points around which news, commentary, discussion, and networking opportunities around a very specific topic, brand, celebrity or writer can become a cohesive aggregating force. Photo credit: Sorin Brinzei Somewhere at the crossroad between... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 24

The Road To Powerful Instant Vertical Communities: Personal Media Aggregators   Personal Media Aggregators are the road to create instant-vertical-communities by way of becoming fulcrum points around which news, commentary, discussion, and networking opportunities around a very specific topic, brand, celebrity or writer can become a cohesive aggregating force. Photo credit: Sorin Brinzei Somewhere at the crossroad between... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 24

VideoBlogging Wiki - Me-TV.org Shows Way For Virtual-Vertical Community Collaboration   Me-TV's VideoBlogging Wiki is an outstanding example of how online communities can use Web-based collaboration tools to create valuable knowledge bases—for themselves and for others to share. It's also a great resource for anyone tinkering with videoblogging, or vlogging. The Wiki is the product of a fast... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 23

Aggregate RSS Content Feeds Into Market Intelligence News Radars: CustomScoop Does It   A benefit of being a member of Robin Good's virtual team is that I get an insider's preview peek into his mini-guides, for example into the third edition of the Newsmaster's Toolkit that will be released in the first week of March. One of the services... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 21

Grassroots Distributed Open-Source Media Is The Fourth Estate Major Threat   The major networks? "They are nothing more than assemblers and distributors of content, once you get down to it. Up until just 2003 or so, it was a very "hard problem" to create and distribute quality video feed to the masses. Now, that has changed. The... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Christian Einfeldt - Mad Penguin -- February 21

Synchronous Collaborative Text Document Editing Online: MoonEdit   Have you ever experienced the frustration that comes from working collaboratively on a text document with other authors and revisors? Version control can become pretty confusing and 'show mark-up' editing trackers can easily clutter up your view of the document to the point that it... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - [via Stephen Downes] -- February 20

Visual Search Of The Entertainment Industry Finds User-Recommended Actors, Movies, Bands And Artists: The New LivePlasma Is Here   MusicPlasma, the visual music discovery engine that Robin Good already classified as 'interesting, promising' a year ago, has just been enhanced with impressive movie search capabilities. The renewed service has been renamed to LivePlasma and now covers bands, artists, movies, actors and directors in a multilingual... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 19

Is Video-Casting The Next Big Thing? Move Over Podcasting   As surely as day follows night, video follows audio. The increasing popularity of podcasting, both as a distribution channel for audio broadcasters and as a 'radio-show' delivery manager for subscribers, inevitably means that insatiable techies will turn to video as the next medium to 'podcast'. Photo credit:... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 18

From Live Conferences To X-Events: Key Benefits   X-events, physical events that leverage the potential of new media communication technologies to extend their communication potential over time, remain one of the hottest topics relevant to conferencing and collaboration providers. Photo credit: Nelson Syozi The convergence of RSS, wikis, blogs, podcasts, discussion forums, newsletters and mailing lists... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 17

How To See Live Concerts Online? SMS Reverse Billing Fuels X-Events Delivery Potential   If you ever wanted to attend a concert, but for some reason were unable to go and see it live, then watching it live through your Web browser, from wherever you happen to be, must be a good second-best. Being able to pay for the experience via... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 17

Who Is Behind Propaganda PR And The Lack Of Transparency In The News? Source Watch Investigates   "The lack of transparency in the world of opinion-making is an ongoing scandal. What we have today is a system of opinion laundering, where powerful interests try to create public support for their side of issues without disclosing the hidden agendas. Media organizations then publish or... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Dan Gillmor On Grassroots -- February 16

Online Group Collaboration Technologies: Wiki Socialtext   Thanks to the courtesy of Ross Mayfield, I have been experimenting with my small geographically dispersed team, how effective a wiki can be in supporting projects in which multiple professionals contribute and complement each other. In the past I have made heavy use of technologies at the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 15

YahooGroups, Groove Or Socialtext Wiki: My Personal Impressions   Thanks to the courtesy of Ross Mayfield, I have been experimenting with my small geographically dispersed team, how effective a wiki can be in supporting projects in which multiple professionals contribute and complement each other. In the past I have made heavy use of technologies at the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 15

Extended Copy And Paste: ClipMate   I often find myself copying contents from one Movable Type article to another, for example from Robin Good Latest News to MasterViews, or from Sharewood Tidings back to Latest News. Photo credit: Laura kennedy I knew that it was possible to do this real fast, but I... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Marjolein Hoekstra -- February 15

Ushering Into The Free Wireless Calling Era: Motorola+Skype   Motorola and Skype have just announced a new powerful alliance giving way to a free wireless future for all user of Skype with a Motorola mobile phone. The new alliance should bring seamless mobility and greater connectivity options and access for both of these companies global customer... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 14

Find Your Way To The Greatest Laugh: MSN Maps   Here is a great opportunity to have a good laugh while exploring and searching the shortest route home with some truly smart interactive maps, a great service provided by the company which will soon break Google to pieces. Photo credit: Lucian Binder ... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - [via Francesco Cascioli - Ilpalo] -- February 14

Video Editing On Mobile Phones: muvee   It is now possible to edit video clips from your mobile phone and make a splashy presentation enriched by synched cuts, special visual effects and titles, all without having to learn complex software or editing techniques. The only thing you need to have are some good... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - [via Om Malik on Broadband] -- February 12

From RSS To PDF: Acrobat 7 Does It   When in January 2005 Adobe released version 7 of Acrobat Standard, Professional and Reader, most journalists were struck by the newly added feature that allows users of the Acrobat Reader version to edit and annotate PDF files if the original PDF publisher has enabled this function... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - [via Clive Shirley - Legal IT] -- February 11

How to Send Large Files without Email: Best Services Online   If you need to send a large file to someone without using email, you may want to know what services and tools are available without needing tech knowledge or using file transfer protocol (FTP). Using the email attachment approach for files that are larger than one megabyte... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 10

Distribute Presentations To Those Without PowerPoint: The Pack and Go Wizard   Microsoft PowerPoint contains an extremely handy export feature that allows you to create an autorun CD from your presentation slideshow. Chiara Monetti reports about it: "When you want to show a PowerPoint presentation on another computer, you can use the Pack and Go Wizard to transfer all... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - MasterViews -- February 9

AdSense Channels And The Preview Tool   Google AdSense provides powerful tracking and previewing tools to monitor and optimize the relevancy and targeting of the text-based ads on your Web pages. Click the image to enlarge it By taking a dive into the AdSense account control panel I discovered two features that I was not... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 9

Avatars And Live Video Add Human Touch To Teleconferences   Spontaneity can be a catalyst in conventional meetings, often smoothing the decision-making process and bringing participants closer to a successful outcome of the meeting. Unfortunately, body language and other non-verbal cues that greatly influence the smooth flow of a personal encounter are not available in teleconferences.... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Kolabora -- February 9

Cooperation, Sharing And Social Networking As Emergent Economic And Production Forces   "Co-operation, especially when repeated, can breed reciprocity and trust, to the benefit of all." The choices we make, as a society, are greatly connected to the technological context we live in. In the Middle Ages we would have not based our economic system on the principles of... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Yale Law Journal -- February 8

Profitable Blogging: Successful Online Advertising Strategies For Independent Publishers   When Robin Good unveiled his plans to dismiss banner ads from his sites, I was very curious—if not concerned—what sources of income would replace them. It's no secret that, although exciting and fun, maintaining a publishing network such as Robin's is a rather costly endeavour.... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Sharewood Tidings -- February 7

Free Digital Image Editor Review: Photofiltre   This is the best free digital image editor for Windows PCs that is available out there bar none. I don't know how I have been missing this tool, but you can be sure that, if you are a non-technical user, this is the only software you... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 7

How to Make Money with Your Blog Site   Which are the best and most effective ways to make money online with your blog site or independent news site? In this MasterNewMedia guide I will talk you through a series of options to make money blogging that I have personally tested over more than... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- February 7

SMS To Skype Is Here!   SMS to Skype is a free service from Connectotel allowing GSM mobile phone users to send Skype instant messages to any Skype user. SMS to Skype uses the standard Skype software and you do not need to install anything else to start using it now. Phot credit:... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 7

Create Enterprise RSS Radars: RSS2Exchange   I have learned by listening to Rok Hrastnik RSS conversation with Paul Chaney about a term I had not heard before: RSS Radars. These are actually what I have been calling newsmaster feeds, and though the name RSS Radars is much more expressive, both refer to... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 6

Submit Your RSS Feed To MSN Search Via XML-RPC   It is now possible to submit your RSS news feed to what is set to become one of the major RSS search engines out there: the all new, freshly launched MSN Search. Photo credit: Davide Guglielmo The opportunity, which as I had reported before through my RSSTop55 was... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Yahoo Finance -- February 5

Event Management: Tools Of The Trade   "Online events and web conferences are often spin-offs or extensions of physical ones. Offline more than online, the organizations and logistics of an event require adequate resources and the ability to coordinate multiple simultaneous tracks. If your next online conference is based on a set of... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Kolabora -- February 5

FireFox Speed Boost: Tweak Tips For High-Bandwidth Internet Users   "After you get past the beginner stage with Firefox, try this "power-user" trick to make it download pages faster by allowing multiple connections so it can download more than one file at a time. Photo credit: Thomas Bush It's only useful for broadband users, so if... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - ForeverGeek -- February 4

X-Platform Support For Online Collaboration Technologies: This Is What The Market Wants   "How can a company start developing a tool for collaboration with the full intent to exclude certain users due to their choice of platform? Tools for collaboration ought to secure a common ground for collaboration, not be an obstacle that excludes people. In fact,... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Kolabora Latest News -- February 4

Animated Flash Presentations : Powerbullet Presenter   Whoever thinks that animated presentations are the exclusive territory of PowerPoint professionals and skilled web developers should look at a nifty, free presentation utility, just discovered by Chiara Monetti: "Powerbullet Presenter is a small and simple freeware Windows application that creates presentations in Flash format. Even if... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - MasterViews International -- February 3

Keyword Suggestion Tools For Online Search Engine Marketing   Determining the right keywords is a critical step for anyone wanting to strategically increase reach and visibility of web pages inside SERPs (search engines page results). Since for many popular search queries there exist a large number of sites on the Internet (having content related to... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Sharon Housley & Robin Good -- February 3

Delivering Presentations From Your PDA Or Handheld Computer   "I was wondering if anyone has any experience using a device, like a PDA, instead of a computer to run a PowerPoint presentation and feed it to a plasma screen or projector. It would be great to have a smaller device to deploy in the field to... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - MasterViews International -- February 2

Inside Marqui: A Good Conversation With Patrick Jones   Online good conversation with Marqui's Patrick Jones. Marqui is a Canadian company making inroads in the content management marketplace with a very cost-effective hosted CMS. During the 32' conversation I ask Patrick Jones, who is a system engineer supporting the development of custom templates and customer implementations,... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- February 1

Site Navigation Strategies: Consistency Or Flow?   There is no need to link to all sections from each and every page on a site. Photo credit:Renato Cardoso We should limit pervasive navigation to five or six basic features and let people go back to the front page, if they want to start from... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- February 1

Screen Magnification With Integrated Screen Reader: ZoomText   Whether vision-impaired or just 'weary-eyed', computer users in need of a full-featured, flexible screen magnification tool will appreciate reading the full review of ZoomText, a specialized screen reader and enlargement tool that not only improves screen readability, but also provides speech support. It echoes audially what... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - AI Squared - ZoomText -- February 1

What Should Drive Site Organization And Design: Consistency Or Flow?   Should a site navigation be driven by principles of consistency and accessibility to all "other" information available on the site, or should it be directed by flow principles? Photo credit:Renato Cardoso Though we have all been designing small and large sites with complete faith in the principles... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 1

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