Robin Good Archive Of Latest News
November 2007

Online Content Publishing Strategy: Long vs. Short Articles, What's Better?   What's better? Writing short summary posts with the essence of the info you want your readers to get or long, in-depth articles and reviews like the ones I often feature here on Master New Media? Photo credit: Maddog - Edited by Robin Good I am sure I am... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Jakob Nielsen - Useit -- November 30

How To Send Very Large Files Across The Web: Eatlime Does It   Do you need to send huge, impossibly large files to your colleagues via the Internet? Eatlime, a new free, web-based (and desktop) service allows you to send huge files to anyone while making the process as simple as it can get. Still in Beta, the new... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 29

Write Great Titles For Your Blog Posts - SEO - SEM Beginner's Guide   Writing great titles for your own articles and blog posts is the second most important thing you need to do to get greater visibility and exposure on major search engines. Notwithstanding tons of articles on the topic and the supposed ease with which great titles could... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 28

Share Music Legally Online: Listen And Get Access To Favorite Tracks From Your Top Ten Buddies With Ezmo   Online music sharing is easier than ever, but it isn't always legal. Ezmo provides you with an easy-to-use online music player that lets you share your music collection with up to ten friends without having to look over your shoulder. If you take a look at recent... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- November 27

Cross-Media Publishing: Create DVD Slide Shows, Videos And Print Photo Books With One True Media   Cross-media publishing is the ability to publish content across multiple media like the Web, printed books, video, slide shows and more. A new web-based platform provides all you need to assemble fancy multimedia slide shows with audio and music while providing you with all the facilities... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- November 26

Usability And YouTube – What Makes YouTube So Successful In Spite Of Its Bad Usability?   Is YouTube a usable site? Is YouTube unprecedented success due to its audience passion or to some clever navigation and interface design solution? Are YouTube users having a great user experience when using the most popular video sharing site in the world or are they frustrated... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Paula Alexandra Silva and Alan Dix - British Computer Society -- November 25

How To Name Your Blog Site And Domain URL - SEO - SEM Beginner's Guide   New site owners and bloggers frequently make a common mistake: naming their site with their own name. While this approach may give your ego a good boost, it really doesn't help anyone find your content more easily via search engines nor it helps readers understand your... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 24

RSS Video Feeds - Open Video Distribution via RSS - Separate Hosting From Viewing   Why should I make a video RSS feed? What makes open video so much better? Isn't enough to publish my video online and allow people to watch it from my blog or directly from Youtube? Image editing: Robin Good - Photo credit: Techno If you are curious to... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Nicholas Reville - Miro -- November 23

The Amazon Kindle And The State of the eBook Marketplace   The e-book revolution is about to take off? The launch of the Amazon Kindle has left many wondering whether the newest ebook reading device introduced by Amazon is a major misjudged flop or if it really represents one more convincing piece in the making of the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Antonio Tombolini - Simplicissimus -- November 22

How To Get Good Links: SEO - SEM Beginner's Guide   Every single SEO expert will tell you that the next important thing to rank high inside major search engines is to get good incoming links from other sites. But how do you go about getting good links from other sites in ways that are effective and... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 21

What Is RSS: A Guide To Really Simple Syndication Benefits, Best Uses And Applications   This is a guide explaining what RSS is and how to best use it. It is targeted at the non-technical user who has not had yet the opportunity to fully understand what RSS is all about and how to best put it to use. Photo credit: Max... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- November 20

How To Bypass Internet Censorship And Filters: A Guide To Circumvention Technologies And Anonymous Browsing   Bypassing internet filters, circumventing internet censorship blocks, sidestepping forced filtering by commercial internet filtering software are the key focus topics of this depth-guide to internet circumvention issues, tools and technologies. Photo-motage by Robin Good with images by: Erik Isselée (hamster), Doug Steven (censored sign), Marc Dietrich (scissors) Whether... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Ron Deibert - The Citizen Lab -- November 18

Think Outside The Box: Fluid Intelligence And The Ability To Question Your Own Beliefs   The ability to change, to inspire others and to seed ideas that will contribute to make our planet a better place, are very close to those reading these pages. Sharewood and my idea of helping independent publishers stems from the very desire to help others, helping... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment WantToKnow Team [via Sepp Hasslberger] - Transformation Team -- November 17

Content Strategy: Have A Strong Focus - SEO-SEM Beginner's Guide   The new small piece of online marketing advice that I am adding today to the large SEO-SEM puzzle, focuses on the importance of selecting and maintaining a very clear site and content focus - theme. Photo credit: Julian Addington-Barker As the web moves forward, the ability to... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 16

How To Name Your Site: Beginner's Guide To Search Engine Optimization   Naming your site appropriately, titling your posts in effective ways, using keywords to help search engines understand your content focus are all key ingredients to get people to find your site on the web. That's why if you want to get visitors and good traffic to... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 15

Attention Profiling: APML Beginner's Guide   Attention profiling is quite possibly the next wave of smarter, more relevant web browsing. APML is an emerging standard that promises to make it much easier for websites and services to cater to your exact tastes, reducing the information overload of seemingly endless web content. Photo credit:... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- November 14

Social Marketing: The New Facebook Conversational Marketing Proposition - Social Ads And Company Pages   Last week Facebook announcement of a new range of social marketing options has given a good injection of innovation to the online advertising world, stuck, for already too long, on the stale, interruptive and unperforming banner-ad metaphor. Social, conversational advertising options, as Facebook has just... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment John Blossom - Shore -- November 13

Online Video Advertising Made Easy - Create, Buy And Sell Video Ads Online With Aditall   Aditall provides an online marketplace for creating and selling, or buying and customizing inexpensive video advertising for the web. Video advertising is one way of making your message stand out on the web, and has now even been included within the ad units offered by the popular... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- November 12

Social Networking Meets Video Microblogging On Seesmic Upcoming Platform   Seesmic, the new video communication platform being setup right now in San Francisco by Loic LeMeur, (presently open only to a limited group of invited beta users) is the first one that hints at pushing the envelope of video publishing and microblogging by creating a social... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 11

Great Design Requires Good Listening: Six Keys To Become An Empathic Designer   You can tell a great designer from her ability to tune in, identify and deeply understand the needs and expectations of her design client. The greater this ability, the greater, in my experience, the likelihood of design success. Photo credit: Yuri Arcours Great designers, whether famous or not,... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Joshua Porter - Bokardo - social web design -- November 10

Online Social Networking And Education: Study Reports On New Generations Social And Creative Interconnected Lifestyles   Is social networking good for education? The National School Boards Association (USA) in partnership with research firm Grunwald Associates LLC, and the support of Microsoft, Newscorp and >Verizon has just published a data-rich survey dissecting social and education related activity patterns by American students. ...And the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment NSBA - National School Boards Association - NSBA - National School Boards Association -- November 9

Web Television Formats: Key Ingredients To Make Your Web TV Stand Out   Nowadays everyone wants to make a web TV. But outside of all the glamorous announcements and the new fancy video players used by these new web TV stations, very little innovation in content production has yet come to the surface. Here are my personal recommendations for... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Master New Media -- November 8

Investment Research: Crowdsourced Recommendations And User Insight Fuel Wikinvest New Wiki-Based Information Gathering Model   Investment research is a highly competitive research field and having the ability to leverage a large pool of individual market watchers and investors may create more value than any traditional competing information gathering approach. This is what new online service Wikinvest attempts to do. Nonetheless this new... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment John Blossom - Shore -- November 7

Video Marketing Online: The Secret Formula For Success By Tubemogul   Online video marketing and promotion is positively one of the most effective routes independent publishers can take up nowadays if they want to significantly increase their Web traffic, visibility and exposure. But what are the key ingredients to make video marketing effective? What are the key variables... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Tubemogul Team - Tubemogul -- November 6

Database Publishing 2.0: Create Online Databases, Social Lists And Custom Interactive Atlases With Listphile   If you want to create, maintain and publish online databases, social lists, galleries or even interactive mash-up atlases as added-value content for your blog or website, you may very well want to take a look at Listphile. This simple, free, easy-to-use web application makes it a... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- November 5

How To Blog: A Beginner's Blog Publishing Guide   How to blog is something that a lot of us old hands take for granted, but for the beginner starting a blog can seem like a daunting tangle of questions and issues to be resolved. In this guide, I have gathered all of the essential resources... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick and Robin Good -- November 4

The Peer To Peer Manifesto: The Emergence of P2P Civilization and Political Economy   Our current political economy is based on a fundamental mistake. It is based on the assumption that natural resources are unlimited, and that it is an endless sink. This false assumption creates artificial scarcity for potentially abundant cultural resources. This combination of quasi-abundance and quasi-scarcity destroys... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michel Bauwens - P2P Foundation -- November 3

Open Social: Google's New Social Networking Platform - What Is It And Why It Matters   While social networking giants such as MySpace and Facebook have been building huge online communities by utilizing proprietary approaches and protocols, a new group of companies led by Google is embracing an open standards approach to social networking that may indeed revolutionize social media as we... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 2

How To Select Images For Web Publication   Selecting effective images for an article, post or web essay is not easy. Though an amazing number of new free image libraries, image search engines and other visual resources have sprung up like mushrooms in the last two years, the ability to select what's appropriate and... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Mrudula Kodali - WebCredible -- November 1

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