Robin Good Archive Of Latest News
July 2004

How Do You Measure Web Site Success?   How do you measure the success of your Web site? As more and more people ask me this question, I have learned that the answer is never the same. Though there are some effective public indicators of your site success, it is evident that unless the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- July 31

Transparency And Credibility On The Web: How To Increase Them   Transparency and credibility are probably among the hardest assets to build online. The lack of a physical presence greatly diminishes our normal ability to assess an organization/company credibility by looking at visual clues and by having direct communications with its staff. On the Web all of... Link | cat.: Robin Good - Stanford Web Credibility Research -- July 30

How To Optimize Your Site For Major Search Engines: The Top 10 Things To Do   The team at MarketingExperiments has been doing a hell of a great job since quite some time now, and the results keep improving. MarketingExperiments is a small research agency who specializes in carrying out in-depth research that is relevant to those who need to market or... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- July 30

How To Increase Search Engine Visibility And Exposure   The Marketing Experiments Journal is a great, free newsletter that I would heartily recommend to anyone involved marketing communications. In the last issue which arrived in my inbox last night there was (among a ton of other very useful materials) a great list of 20 recommended... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- July 30

Skype Calls The World   The official release of Skype 1.0 provides added functionalities including integrated PC-to-phone calling to any landline or mobile phone in the world and direct P2P file transfer among Skype users on any computer platform (for now Windows and Linux. Mac coming next). Outside of a poor... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- July 29

Skype One Does It Good   I have just finished testing the new release of Skype version 1.0 and I have to say I am positively impressed. What I was mostly interested in testing were Skype new critical abilities, namely the integration of the PC-to-phone calling capability and the P2P file transfer capability... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- July 29

Digital Librarians, Findability And The Future Of Informed Decision-Making   "Intelligence is moving to the edges, flowing through networked computers, wireless devices, empowered users and distributed teams. Ideas spread like wildfire. Innovations emerge from uncharted borderlands. Information is in the air, literally. We're exploring a new world called cyberspace, and we're navigating without a map. How... Link | cat.: Peter Morville - Digital Web Magazine - [via InfoDesign.org] -- July 29

The Google Credo: Truth Or Great PR?   Google spills discretely its own philosophical life paradigm in a short list of statements/realizations that deeply should deeply reflect its official heart and mission. In your opinion is this a faithful true credo of Google mission or is it just a smartly worded PR piece? 1) Focus... Link | cat.: Google - [via Bala Pillai - Mindecos] -- July 29

The Independent Content Exchange Freedom Network: Freenet   Freenet, the brainchild of Ian Clarke while a student at the University of Edinburgh, is a free software which lets you publish and obtain information on the Internet without fear of censorship. Nobody controls Freenet, not even its creators, meaning that the system is not vulnerable... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- July 28

Circles Of Trust: Influence Indicators On The Internet   JD Lasica reports from the BlogOn Conference: "Influence is moving from big media to the edges. Users are becoming as influential as big media in certain areas, especially in specialized niches. What are the metrics of influence on the Internet?" Usefulness, trustworthiness and attention are the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment JD Lasica - New Media Musings -- July 28

A Fully Personalized View Of The Internet: Frassle   Frassle is yet another tool that tries to leverage the many opportunities created by the information overload. The collective abilities generated by the efforts of thousands of individual selfish explorers cataloguing the network according to their personal viewpoint is nothing short of marvellous. It provides a... Link | cat.: Robin Good - [via Angelmax] -- July 27

Skype Launches Version One   Skype has just announced the official launch of its final version 1.0 release. The very popular and free Voice-over-IP software has recruited over 7 million users around the world in just about one year since its first release. The new official release consolidates all of the... Link | cat.: Robin Good -- July 27

Rati Goes To The Coiffeur   Technorati has just launched a brand new look online. It finally sports the lines and profiles of a serious, online professional service and gets finally rid of the several links to sections forever under construction and to those others not always clear Technorati trend-spotting sections. Now... Link | cat.: Robin Good -- July 27

How To Create Poster-Sized Prints From Normal Digital Images   An excellent tool for workshop presenters, trainers, facilitators and even for marketing and sales staff, is this little easy-to-use utility which allows you to enlarge and tile-print any image file to a poster-size format. This is extremely handy when you have a low-budget and need to... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good Recommends -- July 26

Online Survey And Collaborative Discussion: SharePoint?   I have had to recently engage the staff and management of a geographically dispersed research organization in re-evaluating and analyzing the key issues that were limiting their online communication effectiveness. As many other similar organizations their IT department has standardized its operations on Microsoft software and... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- July 26

How Much Margin? White Space Does Affect Reading Performance   The critical importance of white space in the effective delivery of visual content is well supported by this report comparing the reading performance of four different white space layouts. "Margins surrounding the text and leading (space between lines) were manipulated to generate the four white space... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Usability News -- July 26

Political Confrontation? Left Or Right Does Not Matter, The Quigley Formula   Personal involvement and agenda definition is what really counts. "Many people want simple solutions for political problems. They are not interested in complexities. When confronted with the fact that both major parties (in the US) are committed to the same agenda, their reaction is: “OK, but... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment G. Edward Griffin -- July 25

Technical Authors: Self-Publishing Is The Way To Go   Even technical authors are waking up to the possibility that self-publishing may be the way to go in the very near future. Now that "Print-on-demand" services have refined their tools and list prices, there are many compelling reasons to look at personal publishing rather than going... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- July 25

Distributing Independent Radio Programs: PRX - Public Radio Exchange   PRX is a "frenetically successful nonprofit web-based service that helps public radio stations put good programming on the air. Four guys with attachment issues to our laptops. Grant-funded and working with hundreds of independent producers and stations across the country. Located in Harvard Square, Boston USA.... read more | cat.: | Link PRX Public Radio Exchange - [via Creative Commons] -- July 25

Do You Want To Be A Blogger Or Do You Want To Be A News Site?   From my Inbox: Hi Robin, I've been a big fan of your site and your newsletter for some time. ... Thanks for the great resource. I am the publisher of www.FastMachines.com. Fastmachines is a weblog focused on auto racing (seeing as how you live in... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- July 24

Why Rich Italians Get Loans In NYC: A True Story   About a month ago, an Italian entered a New York bank and asked to speak with an agent dealing with money loans. The Italian gentleman told the bank agent that he needed to go to Italy for a couple of weeks and needed to borrow about... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- July 24

Why Having Validated Code Is Important Even When Your Web Site Displays Correctly In Your Browser   Frequently people ask me why is it so important to use "standard", validated HTML code, even when they correctly see the page in their preferred browser. "All browsers know how to deal with correct HTML. However, if it is incorrect, the browser has to repair the document,... Link | cat.: Robin Good - W3C -- July 24

Italians, Ferrari And New York   Apparently, this is a true story that has recently appeared on a US newspaper. I really don't know if this story is actually true, but knowing Italians I would not be surprised to learn that this really happened. The original story I have received has been... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- July 24

Participatory Journalism: Community Newsmaking   "Participatory journalism, or citizen journalism -- the idea of people in the community actually gathering and porting information to other people -- is a new and evolving concept that increasingly is becoming more common with the rise of the Internet and, in particular, the rise of... read more | cat.: | Link Daniel Terdiman - Wired News -- July 23

Tired Of PayPal? Looking For An Alternative To Pay And Receive Money Online? Moneybookers   Moneybookers is a new online service that promises to be able to deliver payments in real-time to anyone having an email address on the Internet. Moneybrokers supports many international currencies (over 25), from the British Pound to the Thai Baht and allows full cross-borders payments via... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good Recommends -- July 23

Full Anonymous Browsing: FindNot Internet Security Suite Allows You To Leave No Tracks Behind   Anonymous proxy servers have become more and more abused and recently there has been a number of fake anonymous proxies services that have been setup FOR THE VERY PURPOSE OF capturing user names, passwords, credit card info and more. But more alternatives are springing up to... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good Recommends -- July 22

Training of Trainers: Quick Tips for Online Facilitation   From the excellent work on Training of Trainers completed by Nancy White and the team at the Outreach office of PH Armenia including Anna Martirosyan and Siranush Vardanyan, I have extracted this little pearl. It is a well organized collection of tips and best practices that... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment ASCP - Armenia School Connectivity Program - [via Onlinefacilitation Yahoogroup] -- July 22

P2P TV - How Independent News Video Producers Will Bypass The Mainstream TV Networks   In a television network the end devices are stupid, while the network itself is sophisticated. Control is exercised within the TV network itself. On the Internet, the opposite is actually true: an end-to-end deliberately dumb network with all of the intelligence concentrated at the periphery. "To... Link | cat.: Drazen Pantic - Planetwork Journal -- July 22

Life Caching: How To Become Virtually Immortal By Uploading Your Personal Life Online   Over ten years ago, Tim Leary was already fantasizing of uploading a person's "consciousness" into an electronic virtual reality realm, something like what the radical theologian Teilhard de Chardin called the noosphere. New trends, emerging from the innovative use of personal media technologies may start the... read more | cat.: | Link Trendwatchers - [via Peter Citarella - Terry Heaton] -- July 21

Best Digital Video Cameras For Independent Video Producers   Though this is not a typical area I cover, I see more and more the need for independent publishers to become skilled communicators at large. Audio, information design, data visualization and video are increasingly playing important roles in the online publishing ecology. Especially for those would-be... Link | cat.: Robin Good - Slashdot Community -- July 21

Affinity, Privacy, Trust: The Essence Of An RSS Sustainable Publishing Ecosystem   Steve Gillmor well captures some of the important issues that need to be addressed in order for news publishing tools to become more useful, and, for independent publishers, bloggers, news reporters to further improve their "disintermediating" role as direct providers of vertical commentary, news reporting, analysis... read more | cat.: | Link Steve Gillmor -- July 20

How To Organize Effectively The Content Of A Web Site? Card Sorting Is The Answer   In his latest Alertbox column/newsletter usability guru Jakob Nielsen shares best practices and ideal numbers of participants for effective card sorting in contet (re)organization processes. "A classic mistake is to structure the information space based on how you view the content -- which often results in... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- July 20

New Blog Directory To Expand Your Blog Visibility And Reach: BlogCatalog   BlogCatalog is the newest kid on the block when it comes to blog directories. BlogCatalog meets two primary goals: a) Supply blog creators with greater exposure and b) provide visitors searching for unique blogs with a growing selection of well-organized blog-generated content. At BlogCatalog anyone can... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good Recommends -- July 19

Institutional Website Redesign Strategy: Re-decorating Or Re-designing?   Why are companies reluctant to redesign their websites? Here is an interesting interview covering the of why companies and organizations have so much trouble when deciding to improve the look and accessibility fo their Web sites. The article highlights the importance of getting everyone on the... Link | cat.: Ben Bradley - Darwin -- July 19

Paper Prototyping In Interface And Web Site Design   "The best way to improve the effectiveness of your company's web site is to let your site's users lend you a hand (quite literally) through the process of paper prototyping. Paper prototyping is a fast, low-cost method of testing web site designs. It involves creating rough... read more | cat.: | Link Troy Janisch - Evolt.org -- July 19

Hosting Your Site Outside Of The Western Bloc   I have recently embarked on a quiet search to identify trusted, reliable and performing hosting providers outside of the US and of the main Western European countries. The idea is: if for some unexpected reason, like a terrorist attack or a sudden change in world state... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- July 18

How To Funnel Change By Emulating Epidemic Disease Key Traits: New Ideas Are Like Germs   "Change is frustrating for everyone in organizations. Leaders know that often survival depends on change. Most employees however see change only as a threat and resist change. Change is seen by most as involving great effort and that in the end it often fails. But there... read more | cat.: | Link Robert Paterson Weblog - [via Stephen Downes] -- July 18

Work Of The Future Like A Personalized Videogame Front-End   "For some, the work of the future will resemble an elaborate, personalized video game front-end that's connected to the physical operations of their company." Jay Cross says it as openly as he would drink a glass water and I am glad that there are individuals like... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Jay Cross -- July 18

Google GMail And What It Could Do For You   If you have not have had the opportunity to be invited to try out GMail, the new email service from Google, now in beta testing, this good article outlines the clear benefits and advantages of this promising service. GMail turns upside down many of the expectations... Link | cat.: Dan Brown - Boxes and Arrows -- July 17

How To Read RSS Feeds   "No doubt you have seen those small orange 'XML' or 'RSS' buttons beginning to spread across some of your favourite web sites. Perhaps you have clicked on one out of curiosity, only to be faced with a barrage of angle brackets and undecipherable code, seemingly designed... read more | cat.: | Link Steve Shaw - WebPro News -- July 17

Privacy And Accountability In The Blog Universe   Fernanda Viégas, a PhD candidate working in the Sociable Media Group at the MIT Media Lab, has run an interesting survey to determine the expectations of privacy and accountability that authors have when they blog. Though this research approach still reflects a naive and superficial matching... Link | cat.: Fernanda Viégas - MIT Media Lab -- July 17

Bypass Firewalls While Remaining Anonymous   Want to be invisible online?Your Freedom is an application, which allows to bypass firewalls, content Filters and furthermore allows you to stay anonymous on the Internet by hiding your source IP address and encrpyting the data between your PC and the outside. In essence, "Your Freedom"... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- July 16

Extend Reach, Visibility, And Online Authority By Syndicating Your News: FeedRoll Offers A Win-Win Proposition   FeedRoll is an online service which allows independent Web publishers to facilitate the syndication of their news content on other Web sites, while controlling feed features and tracking access and clickthrough ratios. This is an evolution of what I and many others have been doing for... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - FeedRoll -- July 16

The New Freedom Initiative (US): Ready To Be Tested?   According to a Progress Report, The New Freedom Initiative is a new project announced by the White House to "help Americans with disabilities ...". But apparently, President Bush plans to unveil next month a sweeping mental health initiative that recommends screening for every citizen and promotes... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - WorldNetDaily -- July 16

Numbers Talk: Internet Explorer Will Cease To Be The Most Popular Browser Before December 2005. Start Planning.   In about 6 months Microsoft Internet Explorer has lost nearly 10% of its market share due to security issues and availability of better features and tools inside competing browsers (Opera, Mozilla, Netscape). At this same speed (pessimistic view, as IE loss of market share has dramatically... Link | cat.: Robin Good -- July 15

We Could Be The Peasants, Storming The Bastille Of Media: The Internet TV Tuner   The Internet tuner or something very much like it will do for audiovisual media what the Web did for print – make it immediately accessible from anywhere, at any time, for any reason. Because of the Web, libraries are transforming from repositories of knowledge into centers... Link | cat.: Mark Pesce - Disinformation -- July 15

Major Instant Messengers Start Interoperability Inside The Enterprise   "America Online, Microsoft and Yahoo are teaming up to link their separate instant messaging services for use in the workplace, the first major step by the industry leaders to enable computer users to communicate with one another no matter which of the three systems they use.... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Yahoo News -- July 15

How To Capitalize On The Next Big Thing: How To Track Major Fads And How To Anticipate Future Trends   If you want to build your business on trends, while knowing how to cash in on fads too, please give a good scan this mini-guide from real-estate US tycoon Donald Trump sharing his personal advice and experience. Here is the juice: * Do... read more | cat.: | Link Steve Cooper - Entrepreneur.com -- July 14

Old Versions Of Popular Free Software Tools And Utilities: Oldversion   Looking for a non DRM-enabled version of Real Player? Need that Acrobat Reader version we used to have three years ago? What about Winamp, Yahoo Messenger, Windows Media Player. Can I still find old versions of these tools for my vintage Win95 PC relic? If you... Link | cat.: Robin Good Recommends -- July 14

What's Wrong With Media Consolidation   In a season of politically confrontational movies, documentary filmmaker Robert Greenwald is aiming to do to the Fox News Channel what Michael Moore is trying to do to the Bush administration with his "Fahrenheit 9/11. A coalition of liberal-minded groups, led by the political action organizers... read more | cat.: | Link Elizabeth Jensen - Los Angeles Times -- July 14

Italy vs Europe: Bruno Bozzetto Draws Smile And Faithful Italian Profile   Bruno Bozzetto is the best and most appreciated Italian character animator, and his work, translated into many movies and several TV and cinema advertisements is really above the rest. In a candid email this morning, Marc Freedman, CEO of TrustyFiles sent me over the link to... read more | cat.: | Link Bruno Bozzetto -- July 13

Slow Life Can Be Good: Governor of Iwate, Japan, Shows How   Slow life can be good, is the fascinating true story of a Japanese province governor who actively promotes a laid-back kind of life, the getting back to nature and giving renewed attention to social affairs. In sharp contrast with Tokyo's rapidly-paced lifestyle, the province of Iwate... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- July 13

Slow Life Can Be Good: Japan Shows How   In Iwate, in the north part of Japan, the governor has been re-elected for three years for his pro-relaxation campaigns. Many people are relocating here from Tokyo. At a certain point Hiroya Masuda said: let'stop giving it up. A strange attitude for one who is the boss... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- July 13

Tactical Marketing Support: Best Keyword Targeting And Keyphrase Identification Services   For an online marketer wanting to best leverage the enormous reach of Google and other major search engines and the precise ability to target information surfers through the use of well crafted titles and significant keyphrases there have been multiple tools and online services providing this... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good Recommends -- July 13

Entice Subscribers To Open Up Your Email Newsletters   "Sending thousands of newsletters is ultimately a pointless exercise if those e-mail messages are not opened and read." It is essential therefore to strategically analyze those critical factors that determine how users react to your email messages. When subscribers receive your email alert or newsletter issue... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Share-it -- July 13

Logo Designer Tool: AAALogo   AAALogo is a software tool to create logotypes in a simple and effective way. AAALogo has a very simple and highly interactive Flash-based interface which integrates immediate access to over 2000 basic symbols and graphics shapes. The end user can easily drag, resize, color and move... Link | cat.: Robin Good Recommends -- July 12

The Virtual Office: A Whole New Groove Is Here   Groove has just launched the newest version of its flagship product, now called Virtual Office, while completely revamping the design and organization of its excellent Web site. Groove Networks, has been working hard for quite a few months to this new version 3 release, while constantly... Link | cat.: Robin Good -- July 12

Better Than SmartMeeting? Virtual 3D Collaborative Workspace With Integrated Videoconferencing: Tixeo   Tixeo Workspace 3D is a new immersive virtual environment in which people can meet, talk, discuss, present and collaborate while interacting and seeing themselves through so-called avatars. Following a month or so the official entry into the market by industry-first SmartMeeting, Tixeo has set itself to... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- July 11

Top eMarketers Discover RSS NewsMastering And Its Business Potential   Aggressive and ethics-free emarketers, those early adopters of new technologies, who often act as new media minstrels in popularizing and evangelizing the good value of some new technology or of some new approach in using it, are back in force while now heralding the fiery RSS... Link | cat.: Robin Good Reports -- July 11

The Future Of Content   Rob Glaser of Real Networks, the company which has developed Real Audio says: "The combination of these three developments - universal wireless connectivity based on the IP standard that's connected in a worldwide broadband network - will allow us to treat IP access like water or... read more | cat.: | Link George Siemens -- July 10

Show The Character In You   Draw-me is an express caricature design service that takes a photograph from you and converts by hand into a promotional illustrated character. Turnaround time for a caricature is only a few hours and if you like Draw-me style the price is definitely fair: USD $ 37... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good Recommends -- July 10

The Spreading Of New Ideas: Each One Counts   Does the individual have an effect on society by sharing his ideas and future dreams through email, Web sites, blogs? Can online activists have an impact on new legislation? Are fame and public visibility important to affect change? To really bring about change is it enough to talk and... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- July 10

The Spreading of Ideas   How much do I count in the spreading of new ideas? Am I a change agent? Can I really help this planet become a better place? Sepp Hasslberger, a change agent by explicit mission, author and editor of Health Supreme, comforts the many of you out... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- July 10

The 22-Color Web-Safe Palette?   Thanks to a news post inside the Lockergnome Web Developers weekly email-based news-dispatch I noticed a short news item referring to the death of the web-safe color palette. As the news item failed to report that the source of that story was a four-years old article... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment WebMonkey - [via Lockergnome] -- July 9

Powerful, Easy-To-Use Multi-Format Audio Clip Editor: WavePad   And for those independent publishers like me, looking for an effective, easy-to-use and capable audio editor there is really nothing like WavePad from NCH. Though I have recently spent quite some time looking for an effective audio editor for cleaning up some of my live event... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good Recommends -- July 9

Easily Publish Your Voice And Audio Clips On Your Web Pages   CoolToolAwards has always some interesting new little tools that can be of great help to independent publishers and emarketers alike. If you want a turnkey solution to add streaming audio to your Web pages, there are indeed several solutions out there. AudioGenerator ($ 29.95/month) provides you... Link | cat.: Robin Good Recommends -- July 9

RSS Feed Composer And RSS Directory For RSS NewsMasters: NewzAlert Composer And Publisher Center   NewzAlert Composer is a new simple tool that allows independent publishers and would be newsmasters rapidly prepare content in RSS format while making it easy to upload their newsfeeds items either directly to their FTP server or to NewsAlert own RSS public server. The tool is... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good Recommends -- July 8

Live Review Of The Most Interesting Live Presentation Technologies   Today, at 12 noon NY time, one new edition of Kolabora Live! Buyer's Review will showcase and discuss over the most interesting new technologies available today for delivering live PowerPoint presentations on the Internet. Several new tools will be reviewed and scored for effectiveness over multiple... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Kolabora Live! -- July 8

ActiveX For All: Browsers Makers Create Alternative To IE API Exclusives   While enterprises have been solidly resisting all of the negative press and warnings that have been appearing in the last few days about Microsoft Internet Explorer security risks, many small companies and individual users have indeed turned off their IE while happily adopting FireFox, Netscape, Opera,... read more | cat.: | Link Matt Hicks - eWeek -- July 8

The Big Health Marketing Machine   "Every day Americans are subjected to a barrage of advertising by the pharmaceutical industry. Mixed in with the pitches for a particular drug—usually featuring beautiful people enjoying themselves in the great outdoors—is a more general message. Boiled down to its essentials, it is this: "Yes, prescription... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - The New York Review Of Books -- July 7

What Is Trackback   Steve Outing, at the Poynter Institute E-Media Tidbits provides a good refresher for newbies and self-learners alike on the topic of trackback. "Trackback is an automatic way for your website to notify other sites when you publish a link to them -- so that they know... Link | cat.: Steve Outing - Poynter Institute -- July 7

Free Actionscript-Based Conversion Of PowerPoint Presentations To Flash   Here is another free solution to convert your PowerPoint presentations into Flash. Though this is not an automatic conversion tool and it requires you to be very familiar with Macromedia Actionscript coding, it is indeed an alternative road to expensive solutions like the excellent Macromedia Breeze.... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good Recommends -- July 7

Trust, Is What Online Customers Want To Buy From You   "The biggest challenge in e-commerce is to create trust. On the Web, your company is completely virtual. People can't touch the product. They don't get impressed by your big building or fancy décor. They don't get schmoozed by your high-wattage salespeople. They simply see a few... Link | cat.: Jakob Nielsen -- July 6

What Does 'Training' Really Mean?   What do you really mean when you say Training? Do we really share a common definition for this much misused word? While official definitions are abundant few are deep enough to be used for critically questioning what is it really meant when we say Training. Here... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- July 6

What Is Your Best Definition Of Training?   I happened to fall onto an interesting exchange among trainers, instructional designers and educational specialists and the issue of defining training in a more precise way was brought up by one of the participants. Photo Credit: Cristian Galletti (29) Casalgrande, (RE), Italy Though your and mine... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- July 6

Microsoft Patents The Human Body As A Network Bus   It really sounds like an April Fool's Day joke, but it is really not. Microsoft, that imperialist of the information-technology world, has actually succeeded in patenting the human body as a computer network. US Patent 6,754,472, issued to the company on June 22nd, is for a... read more | cat.: | Link The Economist - [via Grillo Parlante] -- July 6

Open Standards: Is "de facto" Good Enough?   Industries leaders re-iterate their well known general resistance to open standards, rightly calling into the issue of the often too slow and bureaucratic process that official standards bodies require. "What's to gain by subjecting already popular technologies to a long, sometimes painful standards process?" There are... Link | cat.: Robin Good - GlobeandMail.com -- July 5

Why Sharing Information Must Be So Hard Inside Large Organizations?   "Can't we make both collaboration and contributing to the corporate knowledge base easy? Because of overcomplicated metadata requirements and document management tools still in their infancy, some enterprises are making it more difficult for people to contribute knowledge. The business process gets defined by the limitations... read more | cat.: | Link Matthew Clapp - CMSWatch -- July 5

Certify Your Skills: BrainBench Offers Free Limited Access To All Its Tests   To smartly celebrate its five million members registration record, BrainBench has opened up its full test library (normally these are ALL paid tests) for the remaining nine days prior to the launch of the Candidate Database, July 15th. All 450+ Brainbench certification assessments are completely FREE... read more | cat.: | Link