Robin Good Archive Of Latest News
June 2004

Achieving Social Change: With The Slightest Push, Just In The Right Place   "Starting epidemics requires concentrating resources on a few key areas. Your resources ought to be solely concentrated on the [those who naturally play the roles of]Connectors, Mavens, and Salesmen. The world does not accord with our intuition. Those who are successful at creating social epidemics do... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment HappyFeetTravel - [via Bala Pillai] -- June 30

RSS And Advertising: A Difficult Marriage, Unless...   In good substance, Jeff Jarvis, calls for means and ways to make RSS newsfeeds more accountable, more easily audited, in a clear and honest effort to adapt to these content distribution technology, with the same accounting devices and paraphernalia built-in the traditional mass media ad business.... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- June 30

RSS Monetization? The Game Has Changed; Same Rules May Not Apply   Jeff Jarvis reports about the hot issue of RSS "monetization" and business potential sparked off by last Thursday live online event at RSS Weekly. Photo credit: Constanten Schneider (22) Kyiv, Ukraine I must thank Jeff, and probably the other special guests who sparked this conversation online last week, for... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- June 30

Apple Integrates Blogs, RSS, Secure Instant Messaging and AV-Conferencing In your Own Server: The Way To Go!   The new Apple MacOSX "Tiger" server software announced yesterday in San Francisco showcases great convergence and integration of independent publishing (blogs-RSS) and real-time collaboration tools (multi-protocol instant messaging, text chat, and audio video conferencing). As a matter of fact "the iChat server will allow organizations or... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - AppleInsider -- June 30

Under The IE Hood: BHOs   If you are a heavy user of Internet Explorer and have started to become aware of Microsoft Internet Explorer serious risks and vulnerabilities but are still in doubt on switching to a new more secure browser, here is a free little tool that can help you... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good Recommends -- June 29

RSS NewsMasters: The Mac Maybe Your Next Publishing Platform   Great news for Mac owners and for news and content publishers leveraging RSS newsfeeds for distribution, news gathering and independent publishing. Yesterday, at the annual World Wide Developers Conference Apple announced the new version of its future Mac OSX "Tiger" which includes 150 new features, as... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - InternetNews.com -- June 29

Ray Ozzie And Howard Rheingold On The Future Of Online Collaboration: Live Videocast Presented By Robin Good   Ray Ozzie, the man behind Lotus Notes and Groove and Howard Rheingold, author of the best selling book SmartMobs, will be both connected in a live audio-video conference over the Internet, sponsored and organized by Kolabora, the online authority on online collaboration. Robin Good will be... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Kolabora Live! The Competitive Edge -- June 29

The Structure Of Software Revolutions According To Tim "Open Source" O'Reilly   In 1962, Thomas Kuhn published a groundbreaking book entitled The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. In it, he argued that the progress of science is not gradual but (much as we now think of biological evolution), a kind of punctuated equilibrium, with moments of epochal change. When... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- June 28

Internet Explorer Users Warned: CERT Recommends Use Of Non-IE Browsers To Protect Personal Information   "A new Internet virus has surfaced that allows hackers to steal passwords, credit card numbers and other personal information when someone merely visits an infected Web site, government computer security experts warned this week. Hundreds of Web sites have been targeted by the virus, which exploits... read more | cat.: | Link Brian Krebs - WashingtonPost -- June 28

Find, Collect, Save And Share: Amplify   Launching today, Amplify is a new personal knowledge management tool and an online information collecting community that may greatly simplify your search and information collecting efforts. With the Amplify toolbar installed, you can easily capture any type of web content, including images, text, animations, audio and... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good Recommends -- June 28

After The Blog Is Gone: SnipSnap Plays Bliki   If you haven't heard about Blikis yet, it is now time you do. A bliki is a blog that also has wiki capabilities. That means, an easy-to-use online publishing tool, that a non-technical person can operate, and that integrates the ability for readers of the content... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- June 27

Seven Steps To Increase Newsletter Subscriptions   Newsletters are still one of the main distribution and loyalty-building channels for much of the content published on the Internet. Their value for keeping an open channel with your readers and their potential for expanding your loyalt reader base is unabated. Though I personally estimate the... Link | cat.: Heidi Cohen - ClickZ -- June 27

The Smell Of RFID Tags   "What happens when RFID tags are placed on everything from your razor (as Gillette is already doing) to your tires (Michelin is experimenting with this) to your shirt (as Benetton planned, until swayed by consumer protest)? You will walk around virtually bugged. And if you paid... read more | cat.: | Link Lenore Skenazy - WhittierDailyNews -- June 27

Caring For Our Commons: Awareness Is First   "The less conscious we become of The Commons, the less real it becomes, the less we care about it and for it, the more threatened our lives become. As the Commons degrades, individual suffering begins to increase, but we may only see that as INDIVIDUAL suffering,... read more | cat.: | Link Tom Atlee -- June 26

The Commons, Individuality, Fundamentalism And Our Evolutionary Challenge   The Commons is everything that a community shares. Usually it refers to natural resources like land, air and water. But it is most usefully extended to all things we share, from culture to ideas to security to DNA. It can be viewed... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- June 26

Age Of Privation: Commons Under Assault   Common space itself is under assault, from noise, development, and commercial importuning. Giant Coke bottles that now stand atop the storied left field wall in Boston's Fenway Park are more than an advertisement. They're a symbol of dominance - a kind that extends to virtually every... read more | cat.: | Link Jonathan Rowe - Christian Science Monitor -- June 26

Work Smarter, Communicate Better And Have More Fun: PCWorld Best Free PC Tools And Online Resources   "In the world of Windows software, free has almost become a bad word. Most programs offered as a free download bring along unwelcome companions for the ride: intrusive spyware, embedded advertising, and frustrating restrictions. With most (or virtually all) functionality disabled, some of these programs are... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - PCWorld -- June 26

Why Web Standards Are Important   "There comes a point in time when the actions of a few can have a profound impact on the many. In situations like these, the many must find a system of checks and balances in order to protect themselves either from the mistakes of the few,... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Andrei Herasimchuk - Design by Fire -- June 25

Publishing Images Online: Myths And Truths Of Internet Copyright   If you are an online publisher you are certainly aware of issues surrounding the use of images and other copyrighted content on your Web site. Though I have long been pointing at initiatives such as the Creative Commons, Stock Exchange and a few other resources to... read more | cat.: | Link Attorney David L. Amkraut - Robin Good -- June 25

Web Page Color Scheme Editor: PagePainter   PagePainter is a great tool for Web and online interface designers needing to test different color combinations on existing Web pages or prototypes. Conceived and designed by Vincent Kilpatrick, PagePainter provides a professionally-designed tool that integrates a full set of color palettes from which one can... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good Recommends - [via Lockergnome] -- June 25

Don't Require Users To Register, Period   Steve Outing writes: "Perhaps the most common justification for forced user-registration is that it allows managers to monetize (to use the hackneyed phrase from the dot-com boom days) visitors by better targeting advertisements -- Web and e-mail -- based on users' submitted personal data. The rationale... Link | cat.: Steve Outing - Editor & Publisher -- June 24

Quality Research, News, And Commentary On Education: Stephen Downes   Today I clicked on a story I was reading through my RSS newsreader posted by Stephen Downes. Unfortunately the click didn't take me through to the specific post but to his home page, which, thanks to RSS and the good old plain text newsletter he sends... Link | cat.: Robin Good Recommends -- June 24

I Want To Be A Cognitive Ergonomist   "Ergonomics is sometimes described as "fitting the system to the human," meaning that through informed decisions; equipment, tools, environments and tasks can be selected and designed to fit unique human abilities and limitations. Typical examples in the "physical ergonomics" arena include designing a lifting job to... read more | cat.: | Link Peter Budnick and Rachel Michael - [via Information Design] -- June 24

The Latest Guerrilla Marketing Tool For Organizations: Blogs   "Until recently, the thought of employees blabbing freely to the masses about their work on company time -- without the suits from PR hovering over them to stay "on message" -- would have created panic in the executive suite. But in the past year, employee blogs... Link | cat.: BusinessWeek Online - [via George Siemens] -- June 23

Ciao Internet Explorer: Time To Switch To A New Browser!   "The time has come to dump Internet Explorer. I know, I know — you may have heard the same thing before from those that think it's cool to hate Microsoft; but I'm not one of those guys. I'm actually an MCSE and I happen to like... read more | cat.: | Link Daniel Miessler for Lockergnome -- June 23

This Is How We Will Meet: SmartMeeting   Yesterday I took a group of five among industry experts, news reporters, and technology bloggers to a private demo of a new breakthrough conferencing and collaboration technology called SmartMeeting. This new, immersive 3D collaboration environment is truly a generation ahead of any other conferencing system available... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- June 23

If Content Wants To Be Free, How Can I Be Sustainable Robin?   From today's Inbox: "I am impressed by some of your thoughts that I came across on the internet, so much so because they are similar to my own in a number of ways. I have spent 40 years selecting, saving, clearing rights, making English language versions for what... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- June 22

How To Enable Knowledge Management By Nurturing Your Intranet Design   "This article discusses typical KM challenges facing large organizations and how a company intranet can be leveraged to create lasting and measurable business value. ... The aspects of knowledge management discussed are people (in the form of communities of practice) and enterprise intranets as knowledge platforms.... read more | cat.: | Link Shiv Singh - Boxes and Arrows -- June 22

Best Practices For Intranet Design Show Workflow Should Reign Over Orgcharts   The effective design of an intranet is one of the most challenging information design tasks an organization may need to face. Generally spearheaded by IT departments with poor understanding of information architecture and usability issues that make for a successful intranet, many organizations are left with... read more | cat.: | Link Jakob Nielsen - Alertbox -- June 22

Chronological News Popularity: Stamen Time-Visualizes Google News   If you are into data visualization and appreciate the value of information design, you may want to explore this new experimental work in providing more effective access to news via a visual interface. In The News, a newsdata visualization experiment carried out by Michal Migurski of... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good Recommends -- June 22

Ray Ozzie And Howard Rheingold At The Next Competitive Edge: Next Tuesday At Kolabora Live!   New trends and approaches to work, communication and collaboration are gradually emerging as more and more people are taking up seriously the potential offered by the many affordable new real-time conferencing technologies. Ray Ozzie of Groove Networks and Howard Rheingold of SmartMobs take center stage (in... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Kolabora Live! -- June 21

Great Views To Sell Your Ideas: 360° LiveCam   Just announced on the market, is already available to the public, and it is the first high resolution panoramic camera capable of shooting a 360° degrees views in high resolution while providing a swell of complememtary features that make it a perfect marketing vehicle on the... read more | cat.: | Link Roundshot - [via Slashdot] -- June 21

ElMundo Great Visual Stories: Good Use Of Flash Inside News Content   Two very good examples of effective information design applied to newsmaking, are the recipients of last year Best Of New Media Design Competition organized by the Society for News Design (http://snd.org/). One is El Calamar Gigante, produced by Elmundo with information from the Smithsonian Institute and... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good Recommends -- June 21

Peer-to-Peer Video Internet / Online Collaborative TV Network   "The goal of the project is to create a platform for content consisting of a network of contributors and correspondents, recruited from young audiences and students distributed throughout all parts of the world, who are engaged in direct reporting via collective production of Internet and broadcast... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Field-Notes from the Globalization Forefront -- June 20

Videoblogging Moves First Shy Steps   Videoblogging maybe the next small evolutionary step, of independent publishers, propping up just around the corner. For what I can see and understand the technology is all in place and what we really need is only a brave new company to take this to the mainstream.... Link | cat.: Robin Good Spotlight On -- June 20

Sharewood Views: Seven Questions To Robin From Sepp Hasslberger   Sepp Hasslberger, one of Robin Good's three independent news reporters participating in his Communication Agents Initiative, asks him seven direct questions on education, mainstream media, the arts, music rights and how to save the Internet. If you want to get a peek at Robin views on... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- June 20

What Do You See Ahead? Seven Questions To Robin Good About Present And Future In Education, Communication Technologies And The Arts   I am taking the opportunity of some kind of intangible relaxed universe I have just entered in my life, to take back up some mini-projects I had been sitting on for a while. This one in particular, wins the time-record for sitting on it. My good friend... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- June 20

One Stop Shop For Commercial Images Online: FotoSearch   If you are looking for quality rights managed and royalty free stock images online and are willing to pay a fair fee for the special image that you are missing, there are now quite a few resources out there that provide tens of thousands of great... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good Recommends -- June 19

Online Newsletters Winning Traits: Short, Timely, On-Focus   "Timely, focused online newsletter a valuable relationship builder. Just two years ago, the average e-mail user was confused and frustrated when differentiating between spam and the then-emerging category of marketing newsletters. Today, average users are better able to make the differentiation. As a result, publishing an... Link | cat.: Robin Good - Seattle Times -- June 19

Why DRM Is Bad For Society: A Briefing For Microsoft   If you want to understand why copyright issues and the focus on digital rights management has created so much fuss and such a clear stand-off of end users to the future secure content distribution strategy heralded by Microsoft this is an absolute must-read. This is the written... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- June 19

Why Digital Rights Management Is Bad For Us: Microsoft Gets Briefed   If you want to understand why copyright issues and the focus on digital rights management has created so much fuss and such a clear stand-off of end users to the future secure content distribution strategy heralded by Microsoft this is an absolute must-read. This is the... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- June 19

Weblogs And RSS For Business And Marketing: Counterpoint With Brio   Here is my personal follow-up commentary to the last RSS Weekly event that took place last Thursday, June 17th online. My review of some key points that emerged from that event act also as a bridge to the opinions expressed by Eric Rice in his follow-up... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- June 19

RSS And Weblogs For Marketing And Business: Key Issues Emerged At RSS Weekly   Here is my own voice commentary on a few of the issues raised during the last Decisioncast RSS Weekly event that took place on Thursday June 17th. This is also an asynchronous voice reply to a new type of conversation that small independent news publishers can... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Robin Good Sharewood Tidings -- June 18

PCMagazine VoIP Primer Touts Cost-Savings As Key Benefit: You Agree?   PCMagazine publishes an extensive overview of VoIP and its potential within the enterprise. The key benefit being touted for this technology is cost savings and the evident opportunity of replacing expensive telecom providers with VoIP-powered networks and switchboards. As many other mainstream reports on VoIP, this... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good Comments -- June 18

What Online Newspapers Can Learn And Adopt From The Bloggers Universe   Barry Parr well summarizes in a clear and well-written five-part series entitled "Why Can't a Newspaper Be More Like a Blog?" what is that newspapers really miss while trying to catch-up and find a sustainable path in their online ventures. "News sites have been wringing their... read more | cat.: | Link Barry Parr - Media Savvy -- June 18

Mac Personal Live Presentation Tool Debuts: SlidesNow!   SlidesNow! is a new effective low-cost Mac software technology that allows any Mac OSX user to deliver slides on the Internet (to users on both PCs and Macs), together with a live video feed of the presenter. A built-in chat board allows viewers to communicate back... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good Recommends -- June 17

Weblogs And RSS For Marketing And Business: Live Event   The business of Weblogs and RSS. How do companies use Weblogs and RSS for their marketing and business activities? How do companies use Weblogs and RSS to speed communication for internal communications? Under the capable coordinating hand of Alex Williams RSS Weekly is back today with... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - RSS Weekly -- June 17

Weblogs As Social Networking Catalysts   A great summary of why weblogs are critical social networking tools and a bung of valuable reference links. Lilia efimova sums it up in five points: Weblogs are online identities of their authors: by reading a weblog we learn about and connect with another person. Networking.... Link | cat.: Lilia Efimova - Mathemagenic -- June 16

Are Blogs Ready For Prime-Time? Blogads Speaks   "A Blogads survey claims that blog readers are more mature and affluent than expected and more prone to click on ads and buy online. Many advertisers think bloggers—and blog readers—inhabit some kind of cyber backwater, full of stagnant, egotistical, overwritten and overblown opinion pages, but no... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - eMarketer -- June 16

Reviewers Sign-Up: Robin Good Showcases A Breakthrough Virtual Collaboration Space Like You Have Never Seen Before   I have no words to describe what I have seen today but I can tell you that this something unlike any other collaboration technology I have seen before. This is a breakthrough meeting and collaboration solution that opens up the eyes of everyone into understanding what... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- June 16

Meeting Online Like You Have Never Seen Before: Reporters Preview   I thought we were moving forward, but I didn't realize how fast new technologies can now step ahead of their predecessors. Today, I am on the lookout to recruit between five and ten independent reporters, to showcase them, in a private session, a new conferencing/presentation/collaboration technology... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- June 16

Disrupting The News Industry: Media Concentration And Participatory Journalism   Released just over a month ago, the video recording of this April 2004 seminar held at UC Berkeley, provides some very interesting insight and commentary by a panel of qualified experts of traditional and online journalism: Neil Chase, managing editor of CBS MarketWatch, Vin Crosbie of... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good Comments -- June 15

Top SEO Trend: Improve Accessibility Across The Board   A great collection of nine essays explaining the importance of integrating web accessibility guidelines in online publishing efforts and the positive consequences this may generate in the way major search engines will index and rank such content. "...many of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, if... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - BigMouthMedia -- June 15

RSS Newsreader With Text-To-Voice Capabilities: NewsAloud   NextUp.com has released version 1.0 of its NewsAloud software that is designed to automatically retrieve news stories from a variety of news sites such as Yahoo News and Reuters, as well as from any RSS Feed. It uses Voice Synthesis (Text To Speech or TTS) to... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - eContentMagazine -- June 15

Review Of Best Destkop Sharing Technologies   ... Link | cat.: Robin Good - Kolabora Live! -- June 14

Personalized News? Findory News Has Them   Findory News is an online newspaper that learns from your preferences. News sites show the same news to everyone, but not everyone is the same. By paying attention to the news you've read recently, Findory.com finds the news articles you don't want to miss. Findory uses... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good Recommends -- June 14

ViewletPresenter Gets Tested   A few days ago I have written a short news story about the launch of price-breaking new tool for PowerPoint to Flash conversions. As I also maintain an up-to-date resource list of all the Powerpoint To Flash available converters, I am in touch with many of... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good Reviews -- June 14

Critical Factors In Gaining Online Credibility   "There are about 35 million websites on the Internet - by 2014 there'll be an estimated 150 million, not including personal websites. With so many people online and so many websites competing with yours, if you can't persuade Internet users to be loyal to your website... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - WebDevTips -- June 13

Advertising Becomes Part Of Content   John Battelle says: "If advertisers are going to truly benefit from marketing on blogs, they will have to get to know each one to the point that their ads speak with a voice that is consistent in the community where they are advertising." Bill Flitter of... Link | cat.: Bill Flitter - Pheedo -- June 13

Untying The Gordian Knot: ICT For Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding   "Information Communications Technology (ICT) in South Asia, as well as in the rest of the world, is an experiment in progress. Reading the wealth of literature on ICT, it is easy to forget that it is not a panacea for problems facing developing nations. However,... read more | cat.: | Link Sanjana Hattotuwa - Info-Share -- June 13

Convergence In Coordination: Everything Socialized   "In short order, we may witness a wholesale shift in many of the givens that represent the conventional notion of how we coordinate through software. Consider these examples: a) The current approach to coordinating meetings — generally involving individuals looking at personal calendars and cycling through... read more | cat.: | Link Stowe Boyd - Corante -- June 12

Why Online Newspaper Subscription Models Don't Work   "Why are you paying $18 per month for something online when you could get it mostly for free? It's one thing to talk about our being used to paying for printed newspapers, and to talk about it only being fair to compensate editors and writers for... read more | cat.: | Link Stephen Downes - from his unpublished book ""The Learning Marketplace: Meaning, Metadata and Content Syndication in the Learning Object Economy" -- June 12

Masters of Design: Lessons From the Masters   Five ideas to help you incorporate design principles in your work -- and to better connect with customers and colleagues: 1. Design is the Differentiator 2. Those Who Write the Rules, Rule 3. Confront the Unfamiliar 4. Make It Real 5. Get Emotional. Peak Performers, Impact Players, Game Changers, Collaborators and the... read more | cat.: | Link FastCompany - [via InformationDesign] -- June 12

Reusable Components For Effective User Interface Design: UI Patterns   A "pattern language" is made of reusable components that resemble visual languages, in that they cover the entire vocabulary of elements used in a design. Patterns can be a description of best practices within a given design domain. They capture common solutions to design tensions (usually... read more | cat.: | Link Jenifer Tidwell - UI Patterns and Techniques -- June 11

Cigarette Prohibition And The Trinity Test: How To Build A Media Myth Everyone Can Believe In   "Not all governments around the world share the same problem. Japan and Greece have the highest numbers of adult cigarette smokers in the world, but the lowest incidence of lung cancer. In direct contrast to this, America, Australia, Russia, and some South Pacific island groups have... read more | cat.: | Link Joe Vialles - [via Susan] -- June 11

Capturing and Optimizing Screenshots for Print   Taking screen shots of a computer application, Web site or software application is not as easy as it may appear, especially if you need those screenshots to be used in high quality inside professional print publications. This one-page tutorial provides some useful guidance, both to PC... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good Recommends -- June 11

How To Convert Video And Audio Files: Digital Media Converter   Digital Media Converter is a great audio utility for both novice and advanced users. It converts reliably all popular audio and video file formats, both individually and in automatic batch mode. It is easy to use and can be put to work quietly in the background.... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good Recommends -- June 10

Why Microsoft Really Hates The Web   "The new browser war may appear to be about the emergence of Mozilla and friends with their polished eye-candy interfaces, but it's really about Microsoft versus the W3C. Internet Explorer is Microsoft's blocking tactic—never to be properly web-compliant, never to give the W3C a day in... read more | cat.: | Link Nigel McFarlane - informIT -- June 10

Save The World Roadmap: Second Edition   Here is David Pollard's "list of forty actions -- technological, social, entrepreneurial, political -- that could create a new 'tipping point' to restore our planet's, and our, health." I find this list inspirational and of good use for those seeking a more meaningful and rewarding role... read more | cat.: | Link Dave Pollard - How To Save The World -- June 10

Google: Let Me Mix My RSS AdFeeds   Monetize my RSS feeds? Thanks, but no thanks. That is what I have been answering so far to those who very kindly have approached me to suggest in a way or another to introduce some good text ads inside my RSS feeds. The issue is not... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- June 10

Best Screen Sharing Tools Reviewed Tomorrow At Kolabora Live!   Kolabora Live! Buyer's Review is back again with a new event devoted to Screen Sharing technologies. Yes, those nifty little tools that allow you to show your computer screen to distant attendees connected to the Internet from different parts of the world. Screen sharing has been... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Kolabora -- June 9

Turn Ahead: Specialty RSS Ad Feeds   This may sound to you as crazy as it can get, but in my mind this stroked me as being one of the few possible ways in which I would positively envision the convergence of RSS and advertisements. As I have been approached by multiple sources... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good Invents -- June 9

Online Newspapers Don't Get It   Barry Parr expresses very clearly the status of the online newspaper industry: "Our vision of the Web has changed a couple of times in the last decade, but newspapers vision of their online edition remain unchanged. Right now, we're in the middle of a bottom-up revolution... read more | cat.: | Link Barry Parr - MediaSavvy -- June 9

Want To Interact More Directly With Your Customers? Get Chatango   Chatango is a new free online service which allows anyone to use a friendly old chat technology in a new effective way. Chatango allows you to create an easy-to-use personal Web-based chat page on which to exchange, in real-time or asynchronously with customers and teammates. Since... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good Recommends - [via Bill Flitter] -- June 9

PowerPoint To Flash Price-Breaker: ViewletPresenter   Qarbon has just released a very interesting new Powerpoint to Flash converter at market-breaking price: USD $ 99. Though there is no try-out available online, I am expecting the company, that has been overdelivering across its product line, to follow suit with this new simple solution.... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good Recommends -- June 8

Status Of RSS According To PCWorld   An excellent introductory article on RSS and its uses, showcases a large annotated list of services, resources and RSS tools available to the public. It's unfortunate that some of these mainstream articles miss on understanding what the best RSS feeds really are, while they keep suggesting... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good Comments -- June 8

All The News In An Image   Imagenews gathers images from all over the world on news categories ranging from Business and Financial Information to Science, Technology, Sports and Entertainment. Updated every hour, Imagenews provides direct links from each image to the news story from where it was extracted. ... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - ImageNews -- June 8

Future Approaches To Conferencing And Collaboration Take Stage At The Competitive Edge   The detailed report out of the last Competitive Edge live event is finally out. Fascinating are the topics and future scenarios painted by special guests Stuart Henshall and Eugene Eric Kim, who contributed in less than half an hour of actual world time, great knowledge and... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Kolabora -- June 7

It's The Customer — not the company — Who Controls The Conversation   "...the elephant in the room: RSS. While INBOX wrestles with the intractable problems of blurred international boundaries, too-complex authentication solutions and too-expensive computational and payment schemes, more and more of us are routing around e-mail for all but the most basic services. IM for supply-chain communications,... read more | cat.: |