Robin Good Archive Of Latest News
September 2006

That's What We All Need: A Hug   Sometimes, a hug is all what we need. Free hugs is a real life controversial story of Juan Mann, A man whos sole mission was to reach out and hug a stranger to brighten up their lives. In this age of social disconnectivity and lack of human... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- September 29

Network Collaboration: Peer To Peer As A New Way Of Living - Video Interview with Michel Bauwens   Network Collaboration is redefining the way we communicate, publish, do business and build collective knowledge, and it has been made possible with the advent of free or affordable peer to peer technologies. Peer to peer, as a term, has often been associated with online file sharing networks,... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- September 29

Online Video Advertising And Promotion: Share Your Video Online Is The Only Way To Go   Online Video Advertising And Promotion: Share Your Video Online Is The Only Way To Go Online video publishing has indeed taken the Internet by storm this year, making the use of video for marketing, promotion, news and PR online a true key strategic component of any new... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- September 28

Contextual Content Distribution Gets Publishers' Content In The Right Context: Micro-Context   Contextual Content Distribution Gets Publishers' Content In The Right Context: Micro-Context Publishing is Here. by John Blossom While many publishers focus on search engines to get their content in the most valuable context possible that's not where issues of context begin and end for online content. 1-Click Answers... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment John Blossom - Shore -- September 27

Low-Cost International Calls from Your Mobile Phone: JaJah Goes Mobile   Low-cost international calls from your mobile phone are now a reality thanks to the new JaJAah Mobile solution being launched today at DEMOfall in San Diego, California. In simple words, from today you can make JaJah calls directly from your existing mobile phone. Today, 2.5 billion people... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- September 26

How To Start A Successfull Business Online: CEOs Share Their Tips At The ChurchillClub - Video   How do you start a successful Internet startup business? Do you listen to funding partners, technology gurus or to your heart? What are the challenges and critical success factors necessary to achieve solid and positive results for new start-ups wanting to leverage the opportunities offered by the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Signum Sine Tinnitu - Guy Kawasaki -- September 25

New Media Tools Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 71   Photo credit: Magical Garden Use Skype from your mobile phone, without having to download anything on your device Record instantly from your webcam and post your recordings on blogs, in messages or comments Enhance your site performances by analyzing the behavior of your visitors Organize and track the work of... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Livia Iacolare and Robin Good -- September 24

A Business Model For Podcasting   Podcasting needs still to find its own business model. While the podcasting production tools, the distribution venues and the independent authors multiply by the minute, I yet do not see effective new business models emerging from the growing podcasting wave. Doug Smith, who is the President of... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good and Douglas G. Smith - Podango -- September 23

Online Communication Skills: How To Get More Of Your Readers' Attention   by Kathy Sierra When you want to get - and especially keep - someone's attention, what's your competition? What else could they choose to focus on at any given moment? The belief that we have 100% conscious control over what we pay attention to is a myth.... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Kathy Sierra - Creating Passionate Users -- September 22

Rechargeable Batteries Go USB: USBCells   Rechargeable batteries go USB: a new type of rechargeable batteries, which look like standard AA sized ones, provides a new unique advantage by allowing you to recharge these batteries by simply inserting them in one of the USB ports of your computer. The new USBCELL batteries are... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - [via Slashdot] -- September 21

What Are Microformats And Why They Make Your Information Easier To Find   What are Microformats? Microformats are changing the web, and how your computer goes about finding things you ask for online. By standardizing chunks of data - events, business cards, listings, even recipes, Microformats create a more structured internet. Photo credit: (c) Jon Tan The upshot of this well-tagged, structured... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- September 20

SEO Optimization Via RSS Feeds: How To   by Sharon Housley SEO via RSS: RSS feeds are a great communication medium, and when properly managed, web feeds can bring in significant Internet traffic. RSS feeds should contain compelling themed content with episodic titles that are united in common broad theme. Photo credit: Livia Iacolare Use RSS... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Sharon Housley - FeedForAll -- September 19

The War On File Sharing And The Pirate Bay Film - The Official Robin Good Video Remix   Robin Good remix of the P2P file-sharing open-source movie Steal This Film from Sweden's Pirate Bay. Steal This Film (Part One) is a freely available open-source movie about file sharing, Bit Torrent and the news story of the Swedish very popular Pirate Bay torrent tracker. In the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- September 18

New Media Tools Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 70   Photo credit: Sign-generator Create your own media hosting site, or link hosted media to your pre-existing website Online tool to create, edit, publish, and show presentations Collaborate over Microsoft Word and Excel documents with others Voice messaging platform that enables you to send and receive voicemails Online and mobile community dedicated... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Livia Iacolare and Robin Good -- September 17

Group Decision Making And Consensus Building Online: ThinkTank - Video Intro   The ability to organize effective group decision making processes and to effectively build consensus around key issues and problems has been a challenging task from the dawn of time. If you now add the need to facilitate the building of consensus among groups of geographically distant... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick and Robin Good - GroupSystems -- September 16

Office 2.0: Enterprise PC-Based Computing Moves To New Shore   "The idea is pretty simple: use a generic web browser and a set of online services to provide all the functionality needed by a computer user, removing the need for any application to be installed on the computer itself. I call it Office 2.0)" (Source: Ismael Ghalimi... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment John Blossom - Shore -- September 15

Low-Cost Conference Calls Get Easier To Setup And Cheaper To Pay For: JaJah Conference Calls - Video Intro   JaJah, the company which has got herself known for having launched one of the most innovative and unique free / low-cost conference calling services, is at it again. Today JaJah launches JaJah Conference Calls. The new service allows for the setup, scheduling and delivery of low-cost conference... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- September 14

Share Video Online: Link Deep Into Any Video Clip With Motionbox - Video Intro   Want to share only a specific section of a video clip? Now you can. Thanks to the latest feature release from online video editing and publishing service Motionbox (being released today), the syndicating, mashing-up and repurposing of online video content may gain some of the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good and Michael Pick -- September 13

Online SEO: Latent Semantic Indexing - Going Natural Video Intro   "Latent Semantic Indexing, or LSI, is a technique in natural language processing, in particular in vectorial semantics, patented in 1988 by Scott Deerwester, Susan Dumais, George Furnas, Richard Harshman, Thomas Landauer, Karen Lochbaum and Lynn Streeter. In the context of its application to information retrieval, it... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Going Natural - Convertlinks.com -- September 12

How To Be Successful: Stephen Downes' Top Ten Rules   by Stephen Downes Guy Kawasaki last week wrote an item describing "ten things you should learn this school year" in which readers were advised to learn how to write five sentence emails, create PowerPoint slides, and survive boring meetings. It was, to my view, advice on how... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Stephen Downes - Half an Hour -- September 11

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 69   Seal credit: Says-it A complete set of web-based applications provided by Google that you can offer to the visitors of your web site Send pictures, files or video clips to your contacts from your desktop through an avatar-based interface Web-based browser that protects your privacy on multiple fronts Online... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good and Livia Iacolare -- September 10

Web Accessibility Guidelines: The New W3C WCAG 2.0   Web Accessibility Guidelines: The second version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) is in final working draft and will soon be officially released. Version 1 of the guidelines came under much criticism for being vague, full of jargon and extremely difficult to use. Photo credit:... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Trenton Moss - Webcredible -- September 9

Mobile Group Messaging Bridges Internet And Mobile Worlds Via IM, eMail, SMS, RSS: SwarmIt and SwarmPro - Video Review   Swarmteams Ltd, a North Ireland-based company, has just released Swarm-it! and Swarm-Pro, two new services which allow groups of people to send and receive messages instantaneously across web, email, instant messaging, mobile SMS and RSS. An emergent behaviour is now finding its supporting technologies: swarming. The term... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- September 8

Wiki Collaboration Tools Evolve Into Fully Professional Shared Workspaces: Near-Time - Review Plus Video   Wiki Collaboration Tools Evolve Into Fully Professional Shared Workspaces with Great Accessibility and Ease of Use. I have now been using wikis for over two and half years, and frankly I couldn't do without them anymore. Their ability to facilitate my frequent needs to create shared workspaces... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good and Michael Pick -- September 7

DimDim Releases Open-Source Conferencing Platform   Web Conferencing Goes Open-Source: As originally anticipated on these very pages, DimDim web conferencing is finally now a reality, failed to as it just released, as promised, its first version of the server-based DimDim conferencing server. Second Update (11:20am GMT+2): I have just received... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- September 6

Soccer Video Passion: Italian Team Triumphal Comeback Video   Almost two months ago, Italy's won a passionate world soccer championship in Germany, and was the beneficiary of extra love and sympathy from hundreds of thousands of Italy's supporters and friendly fans all around the globe. To all those of you who have suffered and rejoyced while... Link | cat.: Robin Good - RAI -- September 5

Public Dialogue: Important Thinkers, Scientists And Humanitarians Open First Public Forum - The Table of Free Voices   The Table of Free Voices is an ambitious experiment in bringing over a hundred of the most important thinkers, scientists and humanitarians in the world together, and creating a dialogue between them and a global public. Photo credit: Dropping Knowledge Dropping Knowledge, the non-profit organization behind the Table... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- September 4

Program Compatibility Wizard: Windows Vista RC1 - Video Preview   Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 is an early release of the upcoming new Microsoft operating system which will be released in the first part of 2007. This beta release has been distributed to over five million beta testers worldwide in an effort to iron out all... Link | cat.: Robin Good - CNet TV -- September 4

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 68   Seal credit: Official Seal Generator Web-based platform lets you organize and access your media files from anywhere on the web Create file sharing platforms for groups of people Chat with other people viewing the same site as you through the Firefox browser Send instant voice messages to mobile phones from... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Livia Iacolare and Robin Good -- September 3

Create Annotated Web Tours With TrailFire - Video Introduction   Asynchronous co-navigation also known as recorded web tours (see also: Collaborative browsing) is an online collaboration approach used to line up a sequence of web pages to be viewed, studied or analyzed by others, at their leisure, in an easy and simple way. In the past there... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick - Trailfire.com -- September 2

Improve Video Quality Of Mobile Phones Video Clips: MotionDSP   Mobile video clips and video footage shot with most any PDA or mobile phone looks pretty low quality when shown on a computer screen, let alone enlarging it for editing it into a pro clip. But thanks to a company which has spent lots of time... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- September 1

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