Robin Good Archive Of Latest News
November 2005

Integrated Web Collaboration And e-Commerce Platform: Glide Effortless Reviewed   Glide, launching today, is a new web-based integrated environment that allows its users to manage, archive, publish and share music, video and images through a highly visual interface. Glide doesn't stop there. It throws in document and email facilities, basic image editing, as well as some... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 30

Microsoft Open Call For Next Search Champs Event   Microsoft has just communicated by email to all existing Search Champs and has also published on the MSDN Search blog an "Open Call" for anyone to participate in the next Search Champs event taking place less than 8 weeks from now. The Microsoft Search team wants... Link | cat.: Brady Forrest - Sean Carver - MSN Search Weblog -- November 30

Sony PSP Adds RSS And WMA Audio Support   Sony has added support for RSS and Windows Media Audio files to its PlayStation Portable (PSP) with a firmware update available from today. ... Link | cat.: DigitMag -- November 29

Best Of Web NewsRadar Launches: The New Corante Hubs   A few minutes ago the first Corante Hub on Web and Technology has officially opened its doors. Corante Hubs are nothing else but one of the first incarnations of the newsmastering approach to information filtering and aggregation that I have covered quite a few times on... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 29

9-11: What Mainstream Media Did Not Say   What if everything you thought you knew about 911 was a big fat lie? I know it sounds hard to believe that the twin towers were supposedly not taken down by passenger jets, or that there were no arab terrorists, or even that silly idea that the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Sepp Hasslberger - Health Supreme -- November 28

Robin Good's MasterNewMedia Now Ranked In The Top150 On Feedster   Though it doesn't show inside the newly released Feedster Top500 for a little glitch in the final calculations, this site is now ranked among the Top150 most popular blogs. ... Link | cat.: Scott Johnson - Feedster -- November 28

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 28   Sharewood Picnic is Robin Good's weekly basket of goods, tools and services found in the last week. Including several newly-released resources, these little gems can help you better understand and utilize the independent publishing revolution we are witnessing. Photo credit: Adriano Franco Feel free to download, test and... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Kevin C. Borgia -- November 27

Online Advertising Strategies: Why Is Best To Invest In Blogs Rather Than On Large Traffic Sites   If you're looking to improve your business, just give me 180 seconds and I will tell you why you should invest in blogs and not in traditional highly trafficked sites. Photo credit: Robert Scoble I will start by sharing with you data coming from a recent US study... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Alessandro Banchelli -- November 26

Does P2P File-Sharing Really Depress Music Sales?   File-trading seems to help those in the bottom three-quarters of popularity, but not the pop-stars indeed. Also, it appears that rules are all too often made to protect the minority of artists at the top of the curve, not most artists overall ... Link | cat.: Chris Anderson -- November 26

Digital Image Collections: Real-Time Sharing And Interactive Distribution With FilmLoop   FilmLoop is an innovative new presentation and image-sharing tool which allows instant and real-time sharing of digital photos. With FilmLoop you can create a loop of photos moving on your desktop by simply dragging pictures from your hard disk and dropping them on to the loop strip.... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 25

MTV Gets A Good Challenge: Robin's Grassroots Music Video Station To Launch Next   Future Entertainment And New Talent May Soon Indeed Come From The Roots. I am about to launch a new free entertainment and video-driven music online service. The new site, which will launch in beta next week, is all about music videos, having fun, laughing and grassroots participation.... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 24

Talk Back To The Web With Flock, The Social Browser   If you are an early adopter, one of those like me who likes to try and experiment as early as possible with these fascinating new media technologies, you are already probably familiar with Flock, the social browser built on top of the FireFox engine. Photo credit: Daniel... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good, Ricardo Lobo and Kevin C. Borgia -- November 23

The Future Of Print: Thrust Engine For Developing Online Communities   Ah, print, the darling of trade publishers everywhere. It's still a potent weapon in today's B2B marketing wars, but with trade events and online publications soaring in their revenue mixes today's B2B publishers are oftentimes perplexed as to how to deal with the shifting strategic role... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment John Blossom - Shore -- November 22

Advertisers Can Now Choose Their Sites: Google Opens The Onsite Advertiser Sign-Up   Just before the weekend Google announced a new advertising feature that will allow advertisers to select the specific sites on which they will want their ads to appear on. Google stated that this new feature, known as Onsite Advertiser Sign-up, will allow independent publishers to hook and... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Eric Auchard - Reuters -- November 21

Intellectual Property: The Patenting Of Ideas May Be Your Greatest Enemy   "The big content owners have been determining the world's intellectual property regimes for the last few decades. Photo credit: Chrononaut.org By clever lobbying at extraordinarily boring conferences, they had managed by the late 90s to commit governments, through the world trade talks, to a draconian programme of... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Andrew Brown - The Guardian -- November 21

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 27   Sharewood Picnic is Robin Good's weekly basket of goods, tools and services found in the last week. Including several newly-released resources, these little gems can help you better understand and utilize the independent publishing revolution we are witnessing. Photo credit: Berkeley Robinson You are encouraged to visit the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 20

Free One-To-One Videoconferencing And Screen-Sharing With The New Sony IVE   Sony and GlowPoint have launched a consumer version of their IVE video conferencing service. The new offering lets users communicate by either voice or video, for free (one-to-one) or for a monthly fee. Though on all public promotions Sony and Glowpoint state that "You can make... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 19

Enhanced Videoconferencing Gets An Instant Scene: Festoon   Festoon is a new free video conferencing tool that supports real-time screen sharing while seamlessly integrating with Skype and Google Talk. Festoon, formerly known as VSkype, has changed its name while releasing a completely upgraded new version of its simple-to-use PC-only video conferencing tool. Photo credit: Robin... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 18

RSS Feeds Submission To Google: Google Base Is Here!   Google, launched yesterday its newest and most speculated about tool: Google Base. In essence, Google Base is a powerful and highly scalable database for submission of publicly shareable structured data. It is also a way for Google to let anyone upload information to Google databases. As Rafat... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 17

The Economy Of Buzz: Blogs Are Market Conversations   People talk, some more than others. With each conversation, information is spread from one person to another, and if the topic of conversation is interesting, exciting, or has value; people will discuss the topic with other people. Photo credit: Gerd Marstedt ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment James Torio - Everyhuman -- November 16

User-Generated Content And Social Networking Mix Fuel Vertical Communities: Gather.com   The official launch of Gather.com was announced today, ushering in a powerful new set of tools to help individual authors to mingle their content with professional publishers in an online system designed to reward authors for their content's popularity and quality. Publishing via Gather is about... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment John Blossom - Shore -- November 15

Web Traffic Monitoring And Conversion Tracking: Google Analytics   As Gary Price had originally anticipated back in July this year, Google has now officially launched Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a free service that Google offers to its customers to allow them to track, monitor and measure with great accuracy statistics relating to traffic, conversions and... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 14

How To Access Open Wi-Fi Networks   And how to keep the neighbors from stealing yours. ... Link | cat.: Paul Boutin - Slate -- November 14

Converting Articles Into Audio Podcasts   Repurposing and repackaging existing text-based content into other online distributable formats can be an important strategy to consider for serious online publishers. Photo credit: Lynn Cummings Until now, repurposing and repackaging text content into other formats has been a labor-intensive task requiring lots of manual editing work. But... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Sharon Housley and Robin Good -- November 14

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 26   Here is Robin Good's weekly basket of new media resources, software and articles that I would like to share with you. They are all powerful digital weapons for participating in the user-driven publishing revolution Robin is chronicling. Photo credit: Joăo Estęvăo A. de Freitas Feel free to test,... read more | cat.: | Link Kevin C. Borgia and Robin Good -- November 13

The Future Of Television Ads: Prime Time Is Anytime!   "The Internet is one of the biggest threats facing cable and satellite operators because it enables viewers to watch television without an intermediary." Photo credit: Anthony Salimbene "Broadcasters are scrambling to gain a foothold as their traditional business landscape starts to crumble." New media technologies "from video-enabled... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good [via Rafat Ali] - PaidContent.org -- November 12

Educational Access: Worldwide Convergence Boosts Learning Opportunities In Developing Countries   Developing countries are rapidly increasing the number and quality of college graduates, generating a sea change in the relative education advantage that advanced countries have enjoyed over literally hundreds of years, according to an analysis recently released by The Conference Board, the global business network. Photo... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Gail Fosler - Conference Board -- November 12

Online Advertising Future Is Consumer-Generated Media   "Podcasting, blogs and 'wiki' will continue to gain momentum and attract an increasing number of consumers - both content creators and content users. All indicators point to consumer generated media becoming a promising 'ad spend' opportunity, particularly for advertisers looking to reach specific micro-communities. Interactive advertising... Link | cat.: Robin Good - 24/7 Real Media -- November 11

Virtual Teams Roadmap To High-Performance Collaboration: The Bioteaming Manifesto   Today’s virtual business teams don’t appear to be able to fully leverage the much touted opportunities offered by always-on interconnectedness, easy access to unlimited information sources and real-time communication and collaboration tools. Photo credit: ChangeThis While much of the Internet-generated new media revolution talks about greater and more... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good and Ken Thompson - ChangeThis -- November 10

NewsRadars Come Of Age: First Full-Fledged Professional Newsmastering Engine Around The Corner   Tomorrow, I will be publishing a review plus interview with what I consider the first true full-fledged newsmastering engine. Photo credit: Robin Good For the first time, after 21 months ago I described in summary points my own vision for what a newsmaster and a newsradar (or newsmastering... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 8

Healing As Art: The Tale Of The Painting Doctors   There was once a small group of medical doctors (MDs) who wanted to create art. To accomplish this, they first decided to study art to find what it was made of. Photo credit: Lauren Lank Using elaborate microscopes and measurement devices, they discovered that art was made up of... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Mike Adams - NewTarget -- November 7

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 25   Sharewood Picnic is Robin Good's weekly basket of hand-picked goodies discovered and found in the last seven days; it includes new web sites, software tools and online resources that can further enable your ability to become effective independent publishers online. Photo credit: Grzegorz Niewiadomski You are welcome to... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Kevin C. Borgia and Robin Good -- November 6

World Information Society: Grassroots Media Access And Press Clearinghouse   Journalists looking for free, up-to-date resources, news and debate on the information society can get all this and more on a new website called 'i-Witness'. The i-Witness website is being launched ahead of the final stage of the World Summit on the Information Society (Tunisia, 16-18 November... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Murali Shanmugavelan - Panos London -- November 5

Video Blog Production For Indies: Technology Advice From RocketBoom   Producing video for online distribution is both one of the killer new media opportunities opening up for would-be independent web video producers as well as being the nastiest technology bottleneck faced by non-technological authors and entrepreneurs wanting to enter this new content arena. Photo credit: Andrew... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Andrew Baron - Rocketboom -- November 4

Podcasting And The Future Of Traditional Radio   Is podcasting going to "alter" traditional radio as we know it today? Some even believe that radio is dying altogether because of the rapid and sweeping emergence of podcasting and satellite radio complemented by the very low-quality programming of US-like commercial radio stations. Photo credit: Ronaldo Taveira While... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 3

Benefits Of Web-Based Applications And Microsoft Announcement Of The "Live" Era   Microsoft announced yesterday that within a few months it will launch its first set of Web-based Office applications. According to BusinessWeek "this was arguably Microsoft's most important Net strategy announcement since it launched the so-called browser war against Internet pioneer Netscape a decade earlier." This is a... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - BusinessWeek -- November 2

News Via Instant Messenger   "The Netherlands is somewhat of a test market for services around Instant Messenger, Microsoft's chat client. With 4 million active IM users in a country of 15 million, IM is incredibly popular, and becoming a mass medium in its own right. Microsoft is now starting to... Link | cat.: Monique Van Dusseldorp - Poynter -- November 1

GM Food Dangers Directly Affect Biological Descendants and Future Generations   Here is another story you will not find on mainstream media. A breakthrough study from a national Russian research agency suggests that a diet with genetically-modified (GM) soy may indeed affect newborns of parents maintaining a GM-based food diet. According to the study reported by Russian federal... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good via Sepp Hasslberger - Health Supreme -- November 1

What Is Ajax And What Is It Good For   Ajax is not a technology in itself, but a term that refers to the use of a group of technologies together. Traditional web applications essentially submit forms, completed by a user, to a web server. The web server responds by sending a new web page back.... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Eddie Traversa -- November 1

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