Robin Good Archive Of Latest News
November 2003

Natural Selections: Colors Found in Nature and Interface Design   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Boxes and Arrows -- November 29

Natural Selections: Colors Found in Nature and Interface Design   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Boxes and Arrows -- November 29

Personal Knowledge Mapping And The Concept Of Data Emergence   Once upon a time, in a far-away land, there was an advanced civilization of intelligent beings who wanted to be able to share their personal know-how, preferences, ideas and visions with those others that were set to work and collaborate with them. Tired of spending millions of... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 28

The Opte Project: New Map Of The Internet Released   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Ross Mayfield Weblog -- November 28

Personal Knowledge Mapping And The Concept Of Data Emergence   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Master New Media -- November 28

iChat Breaker - Squidcam Makes Mac And PCs Videoconference At Once   SquidCam is a video and audio chat application enabling you to have a conversation with one or more people using SquidCam over a network (LAN and/or Internet) connection. SquidCam features audio and video connectivity, text messaging, and an automated video answering machine, all without the need... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 27

Alternative Scheme Supports Creative Artists Through Refundable Tax   The institution of copyrights has its origins in the feudal guild system. Copyrights provide an incentive for creative or artistic work by providing a state-enforced monopoly. Like any other monopoly, this system leads to enormous inefficiencies, and creates substantial enforcement problems. The size of these inefficiencies... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 27

Alternative Scheme Supports Creative Artists Through Refundable Tax   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Master New Media -- November 27

Microsoft Ponders New Critical Vulnerabilities Found In IE   A Danish security company, Secunia, has just released a report indicating that a new set of VERY critical security vulnerabilities have been discovered in Internet Explorer 6.0. The Copenhagen, Denmark, company has classified the vulnerabilities as "extremely critical" and is advising all IE users to disable Active... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 26

The Future Of Web Conferencing: Good Interviews Scott Mule   Scott Mule is CEO of Linktivity, a brilliant Web conferencing company which has been bringing to the market a multi-award winning tool, that is truly impressive in terms of sheer performance and features. I have long tested and reviewed WebDemo, Linktivity flagship product and have remained very... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 26

New Microsoft Office Toolbar Translates For You On The Fly   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Master New Media -- November 25

Will Consumers Change Copyright Law?   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - PC World -- November 25

New Microsoft Office Toolbar Translates For You On The Fly   PCWorld.com - Microsoft Office Goes International SDL International launched yesterday a translation toolbar for Microsoft's Office and Outlook software. The toolbar is a service that costs less than USD $ 3.50 per month ($39.95 per year) and offers translation for English, Dutch, French, Italian, German, Norwegian, Portuguese, and... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 25

Too Quick to Copyright   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - OL Daily -- November 24

Norwegian hacker cracks Apple's iTunes anti-pirating software (AFP)   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Yahoo News -- November 24

Rich Nations Flunk in Educating Poor   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - OL Daily -- November 24

The Future Of Web Conferencing: Good Interviews Keith Teare   Keith Teare is the CEO of SantaCruz Networks a relatively new videoconferencing company which builds on the cutting edge development work of former RealityFusion Inc. and its excellent TeamView videoconferencing service. SantaCruz Networks is the videoconferencing infrastructure provider behind Viditel, the actual brand name through which... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 24

Compress Acrobat PDF Files To The Extreme   Cvision pdfCompressor http://www.cvisiontech.com/cvistapdf.html = breakthrough tool Software (Win) Free try-out - Starts at $ 349 CVision Technologies announced the release of a desktop version of its pdfCompressor Acrobat PDF file compression software. Like the professional version, pdfCompressor Desktop Edition compresses PDF files to one-tenth their regular size. As an example, the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 23

Powerful PDF-Making Tools For GIS, CAD, Database Publishing   Layton Graphics is the company behind some very powerful and unique PDF creation tools. One is MAP2PDF, a PDF creation tool that is entirely dedicated to support and facilitate the automatic creation of PDFs from complex documents such as maps and databases, which can automatically generate... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 23

Cost-Effective Alternative To Create Acrobat PDF Files   activePDF Composer http://tinyurl.com/w6x2 = must have Software (Win) Free to try - $ 79 In response to Adobe abandonment of the single-copy sales of lower-priced "office" PDF creation software to its competitors and of its strategic decision to set up a minimum-1,000-copy minimum purchase requirement for the purchase of Acrobat... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 23

Powerful PDF-Making Tools For GIS, CAD, Database Publishing   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Master New Media -- November 23

What Format & Dimension To Save Pics In?   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - LockerGnome Forums -- November 23

Loosing Our Supplement Freedoms   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Share The Wealth -- November 22

Bloggers As Independent News Reporters   The time of the independent news reporters is here indeed. While the majority of bloggers may have fallen in love too much with their narcissistic pleasure for light commentary, personal notes and sharing of half-developed ideas in what many believe to be an "open conversation", the more... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 21

Health Alternatives - Community Message Board Open to All   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Health Supreme -- November 20

Test Your Website At Modem Speed And See Which Images Slow You Down   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Master New Media -- November 20

The Future Of Web Conferencing: Good Interviews Dina Mehta   I really enjoyed interviewing Dina Mehta on the Future Of Web Conferencing as Dina is not a CEO or technology wizard of anyone new start-up. Dina Mehta is an expert in marketing research and in the use of new media communications technologies to augment the knowledge... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 20

Google as a Public Utility?   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - google.weblogsinc.com -- November 20

Test Your Website At Modem Speed And See Which Images Slow You Down   Optiview Cool Tools http://tinyurl.com/vt6r = must have Online Service FREE Optiview Cool Tools is a great set of free online services that allow you to easily gauge the waste of bandwidth and download time your Web graphics are imposing on your online visitors. Most of you are quite familiar with the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 20

Deficits, Free Trade and Privatization - How to Finance Empire   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Health Supreme -- November 19

What Is Information Design?   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Master New Media -- November 19

PowerPoint: anathema or boon?   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Inf@vis! -- November 19

Online Learning Through Multimedia Investigation   An excellent educational resource is the one that Lisa Neal (editor-in-Chief of eLearn Magazine), as a project leader, carried out for Plimoth Plantation's new site: "You Are the Historian: Investigating the First Thanksgiving." The site does an excellent job of guiding children to an understanding of what... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 19

FlashClips   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Indezine -- November 19

Online Learning Through Multimedia Investigation   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Master New Media -- November 19

The Holistic Approach To Online Communication Strategy   Small, medium and large sized organizations are finally arriving at a stage in which the Web represents for them a critical communication, PR/PA, marketing and commercial venue essential to their survival. It is during this realization phase, that most organizations evaluate the restructuring, improvement and reconsideration of... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 19

VoIP Signals Crowning Of Presence Powered Communications   Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is racing toward mainstream acceptance, steered by attractive price points--currently $200 to $500 per line--proven cost savings in early-adopter deployments and significant improvements in voice quality and reliability. Early adopters with whom we spoke--financial services, health care providers and technology firms--are... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 19

Virtual Properties' Rights? Who Owns Your Creations In Cyberspace?   Creative licensing for massive multiplayer online games At a conference focused on video games and the law presented jointly by the law schools of NYU and Yale, the legal grey area of intellectual property and ownership of in-game items by participants has been examined by numerous presenters.... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 18

The Death Of Microsoft NetMeeting   Microsoft Loses Another Patent Suit On the heels of being ordered to pay Eolas $521 million for infringement on a browser-related patent, Microsoft has lost yet another patent case. This time, Redmond's been ordered to shell out $62 million for infringement on a Web conferencing patent belonging... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 17

Standard "how will social software companies make money" story from SFG   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com -- November 17

Anystream Unveils Apreso 2003 for PowerPoint   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Presentation Master -- November 17

Technology In Action: The Best And Most Innovative Approaches To Learning Online   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Master New Media -- November 17

The Future Of Web Conferencing: Good Interviews Andrew Harding   Sitting in front of me this time is Andrew Harding, a specialist in network security, authentication, identity management and in many more technical buzzwords most of us are not familiar with. Andrew and his company, Neoteris (now bought by NetScreen) are dedicated to support and facilitate the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 17

Technology In Action: The Best And Most Innovative Approaches To Learning Online   Here is a wonderful selection of online educational projects that showcase wit, intelligence, uniqueness and lots of good brains behind them. Each one of the projects showcased in this list, some new some already established, is an excellent example of how these technologies are being utilized "to... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 17

Realtime User Mapping   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Daily Wireless -- November 16

Global Learn Day Showcases The Best Of Live Web Conferencing With Live Voice And Presentations   The countdown has been running for a while and only a few hours (8 at this time) are left before the Global Learn Day takes off online. This is a live event bringing together people from all over the world to talk and discuss issues relating to... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 15

Intellectual Flash Mobbing Through Blogs: GridBlogging   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Master New Media -- November 14

Evite To Become New Social Networking Service   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Master New Media -- November 14

How To Make iChat AV Work Across Firewalls and NATs   If you want to use the video and audio conferencing facilities of your personal computer, you need to be aware that you may encounter problems in making a successful audio or video connection, when one of the participating end points is behind a firewall or a... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 14

iChat AV Makes Videoconferencing Very Affordable On The Mac   Mac Rumors: iChat AV for Jaguar Now Available iChat AV, the powerful audio and videoconferencing application for Apple Macs running Mac OSX, is now available for Jaguar and Panther, the latest releases of Apple new operating system. Available for $ 29.95, iChat AV comes actually freely bundled... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 14

WebEx Becomes Contextual   PCWorld.com - WebEx Upgrades Meeting Center Users can now launch a WebEx meeting from within a business application or document and share its contents with other participants. The service has also been tightly coupled with Microsoft Outlook so that users can verify a participant's availability and send... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 14

Guide To Understanding Google PageRank   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Master New Media -- November 14

Intellectual Flash Mobbing Through Blogs: GridBlogging   notes from somewhere bizzare: Grid blogging (an invitation) Grid blogging aims to investigate the potentials of a distributed media production model spread across blogosphere nodes. It seeks to ignite attention on specific topics at set times through variegated voices. A kind of decentralised flash mobbing for the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 14

Stop! ID Thief!   Credit card companies allow you to view your transactions on secure Web sites. For many people, however, even the few minutes it takes to deal with these sites is a big disincentive. But personal-finance programs like Quicken or Money streamline this process. Read the full story... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- November 14

Evite To Become New Social Networking Service   Evite, an online service which used to provide event management and support facilities (sending of invitations and management of feedback and responses in and automated online service) for events, is now converting itself into a full Social Networking service. Social networks such as Friendster and Emode.com consist... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 14

Google AdSense Troubleshooting And Optimization: Best Real-World Tips   Here is a great resource for information on how to solve, optimize and troubleshoot problems and issues relating to Google AdSense. All filtered and selected from the great exchanges emerging in WebProWorld qualified and highly attended forums. Posts and discussions on Google AdSense: Moving position? Hints on AdSense AdSense Spidering Trouble With... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 14

Guide To Understanding Google PageRank   Everything You Wanted To Know About Google PageRank: Here is an excellent and very comprehensive report. Bookmark and print: Google's PageRank Explained and how to make the most of it by Phil Craven PageRank is a numeric value that represents how important a page is on the web. Google... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- November 14

Best Web And Videoconferencing Alternatives To WebEx, Live Meeting, Centra For The Small, Non-Profit And Home-Based Company   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Master New Media -- November 13

Best Web And Videoconferencing Alternatives To WebEx, Live Meeting, Centra For The Small, Non-Profit And Home-Based Company   While most people have yet not realized that even with modest computer equipment and a dial-up connection, talking with your live voice over the Internet has become a true reality, accessible to anyone and fully able to replace your telephone in a number of useful ways,... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 13

Fundraising Is A Conversation   Indepedent publishers and non-profit organizations which do not operate in the commercial sector have started to become increasingly awake to new approaches and methods through which obtain funding support. Fundraising is a difficult art, especially for those who, by choice, have actually decided not to paddle products... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 12

The Future Of Web Conferencing: Good Interviews Brad Treat   Brad Treat is the co-founder of SightSpeed.com a small company dedicated to make video communications over high bandwidth Internet connections easy to use, inexpensive and with outstanding quality. His company, SightSpeed, is a Berkeley-based startup built upon a decade's research into video compression at Cornell University done... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 11

Creating Awareness Through Simple Stories: The Meatrix   If you are about to have lunch at Mc Donald's, skip this one. Here is a nice approach to creating awareness around a difficult issue. Through a simple animated Flash-story the people at Goveg.com strike a good shot at creating a very cost-effective public awareness piece, which is... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 10

Home Page Design Guidelines: Jakob Nielsen Recommends   Jakob Nielsen spills the beans again on critical usability and information access issues that greatly limit the effectivenss of our communications online. If you are serious about your news site, or small e-commerce shop, you better give a good read at what Jakob has to say. Nonetheless... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 10

Google Launches Its Own Mini-Browser Under Disguise: The Google Deskbar   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Master New Media -- November 8

Google Launches Its Own Mini-Browser Under Disguise: The Google Deskbar   Google Deskbar http://toolbar.google.com/deskbar/ = must have Desktop tool (Windows ONLY) FREE Called the Google Deskbar here is the latest useful addition to your set of powerful research tools (still in beta). Search the whole Web using Google and without opening your browser! Specific features: Search using Google, even when your browser isn't... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 8

The Future Of Web Conferencing: Good Interviews Stephanie Downs   Here is Stephanie Downs, a corporate marketing communication expert who has been pioneering, showcasing and educating the enterprise market to the new opportunities and benefits offered by the world of Web conferencing. Frequently hosted by the major enterprise platform vendors, Stephanie is the public evangelist of Web... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 7

Google AdSense Review: Strengths, Problems And Weaknesses   Google's AdSense program allows third-party sites (like mine) to run Google's famously successful text ads, which also get tailored to each of site's pages' content. Already, there have been a few examples of the money this could bring to small sites.Source: Potential Effects of Google AdSense. Google... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 7

DRM Lock-In Reminder Of Potential Damaging Security Risks   "Incompatible anticopying technologies known as digital rights management (DRM) are being applied to everything from music files to Microsoft Word documents, and the lack of rules that can make these schemes work together is increasingly prompting calls for a standards revolution. The problem, critics say, is... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 7

Skype Problems And Limitations   What are some economic, privacy, and security implications of the new Skype VoIP technology? Taking the opportunity offered by the above question raised by one of my readers, Jermaine Arphul, and by the response posted yesterday by Anon, I engage myself today in a little excursion over... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 6

The Future Of Web Conferencing: Good Interviews Roland Piquepaille   Independent, eclectic, multidisciplinary, witty. Here is Roland Piquepaille, unique scientist, researcher, reporter, opinion maker and journalist who doesn't wait for the approval fo the Queen to speak his mind out loud. Roland is one of the high priests of the blogosphere, one very qualified writer and attentive... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 5

Removing Spam From Blogs   I was just discussing today the issue of how to rapidly eliminate the number of spam messages posted by unscrupolous marketers on Web sites and blogs that provide spaces for comments at the end of articles, and making some recommendations to the Communication Agents on how... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 4

Ethical Music Sharing More Profitable Than RIAA Suits   Internet Music Wihtiut the Guilt Stephen Downes brings my attention to a very interesting project that shows some interesting and alternative way to look at the music business and at ways of making independent artits and musicians survive while doing their best: "This is a very nice story... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 4

Social Networking At Its Best: Tribe.net Meets MoveOn.org Meets MeetUp.com   "If there's something bothering you in your area and you want to do something about it, you've come to the right place." The British Broadcasting Corporation has launched a sophisticated activism Web site that it hopes will get people more involved with their communities and provide tools... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 3

Microsoft Attempt To Phase Out Simultaneously HTML, CSS, PDF, Flash, DOM, XUL, SVG, SMIL   "Microsoft may be attempting to simultaneously obsolete HTML, CSS, DOM, XUL, SVG, SMIL, Flash, PDF. At this point, the SDK documentation is too incomplete to firmly judge how well XAML compares with these formats, but I hope this lights a fire under the collective butt of... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 3

The Future Of Web Conferencing: Good Interviews Jeff King   I would like to introduce my next guest by mentioning the fact that his company, WaveThree Software, is one among very few cutting edge operations that have been able to bring to market a killer software-based cross-platform videoconferencing solution that is impressive in terms of quality,... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 2