Robin Good Archive Of Latest News
January 2004

DVD Region Free   DVD Region-Free enables you to watch any region DVD on region-locked DVD drive. It will work, even if you can not change the DVD drive's region anymore. You needn't hack DVD drive (flash firmware) which is sometimes dangerous, useless or unavailable. DVD Region-Free disables region check... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Fengtao Software -- January 31

Dan Gillmor: 2004 Outlook   In this audio recorded IT-Conversation interview Dan Gillmor of San Jose Mercury News gives his views on a broad variety of topics facing us in 2004. On the "copyright cartel," he points out that if we had been in this state 30 years ago when photocopiers... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - IT Conversations -- January 31

Web Conferencing: A Powerful, Affordable Communications Tool for Nonprofits   Interested in a powerful, affordable communications tool that is accessible to any nonprofit and can cost less than a conference call? Try Web conferencing. Conferencing via the Web allows nonprofit organizations to save money on travel, while at the same time enhancing conference calls by sharing... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Bill Tucker - Isoph -- January 31

Get Rid Of Popups And Spyware   An updated short list of recommended free tools and services that can be used immediately to free your computer from undesired spyware, malware, junkware and other malicious hidden programs. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Fares Rihani -- January 30

Large Gap Persists Between Consumers and Businesses On Privacy Issues   Fear of inadequate protection of personal data has compelled half of consumers to reject or cancel doing business with a company. Accenture study reveals wide chasm exists between U.S. businesses and consumers regarding privacy and trust related to personal data findings point to opportunity for... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Accenture - [via LLRX.com] -- January 30

A Civilization Of The Mind   Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 30

A Civilization Of The Mind   January 29th is Thomas Paine's birthday. Thomas Paine came to us from England. He is the person who set the Spirit of Independence in the minds and hearts of the American rebels in 1776 with the publication of "Common Sense." He was also the first to call... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 29

Skype Keeps Growing   Skype, the global P2P telephony company that provides consumers on Windows PCs with the ability to make free voice calls using their broadband connections, today announced the expansion of Asian language options, adding Chinese, Japanese and Korean to the twelve languages already offered on Skype. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 29

Skype Keeps Growing   Skype Technologies S.A., the global P2P telephony company that provides consumers on Windows PCs with the ability to make free voice calls using their broadband connections, today announced the expansion of Asian language options, adding Chinese, Japanese and Korean to the twelve languages already offered on... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 29

Guide To Self-publishing On The Internet   The ePrints Handbook is intended as a guide to self publishing on the Internet. Major topics include a researchers guide to self archiving, a guide to open access, a guide to managing an eprints service, and an installation guide. The Handbook was commissioned by Soros' Open... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - via OLDaily -- January 29

Wireless Supports Emergency Response   Growing numbers of municipal and state governments are turning to wireless technology to link emergency response systems. Wireless systems are potentially less expensive than other communications tools. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Federal Computer Week -- January 29

Informal Set Of Criteria For Evaluating Effective Interface Designs   The most critical issues affecting interface designs are related to communication aspects. Context, Consistency, Transparency, Clarity, Feedback, Metaphor, are all issues of communication. What are you telling your audience and how are you saying it? ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Functioning Form -- January 29

MUDDA: The "Magnificent Union of Digitally Downloading Artists"   "Unless artists quickly grasp the possibilities that are available to them, then the rules will get written, and they'll get written without much input from artists." (Brian Eno at Midem 04) ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Wired News -- January 28

The Bloated, Dysfunctional World Of Enterprise Solutions   What the hell happened to the "best tool for the job" policy? Does the industry really have the money to invest in bloated projects, implemented with non-productive technologies that are just not right for the job at hand? I think not. Why then, does it happen?... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Kuro5hin [via Stephen Downes OLDaily] -- January 28

Technologies And Traits For Effective Online Teamwork   What are the features and facilities you really need when collaborating online? Is it true that present-day state-of-art conferencing solutions integrate and include what we, professional end users really want? Who is driving the Web conferencing industry? Technologists, businessmen or us? ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Kolabora -- January 28

MusicPlasma Helps You Visualize Your Musical Outlook   Musicplasma is a visual search engine that allows to find music tracks and authors according to the musical genre they belong to. Through the basic application of some essential information design techniques Musciplasma shows once again how powerful information visualization can be in the realm of... Link | cat.: Robin Good - Master New Media -- January 27

Microsoft Launches Search Toolbar: Privacy At Risk   Toolbars like this one "which plug into Microsoft's popular Internet Explorer browser, are more than simple shortcuts to Web services. They also help companies collect detailed information about users' movements on the Web. Such Information can be used to build more sophisticated services, such as shopping... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 27

Colorpic 3, WebTools and Screen Calipers: Three Great Tools For Any Web Designer   Nico Westerdale strikes it again! Ever tried using a color picker on a high resolution monitor? It's impossible. That's why his new color picker has a magnifier attached. Control it from the keyboard and grab up to 16 colors at once. It's 100% free and it's... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 27

Memigo   Memigo recommends news articles you will be interested in based on your ratings and those of other users that are similar to you. This sort of thing will be huge. Forget peer review, forget gateways. This is the future of online content evaluation. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - via OLDaily -- January 27

MusicPlasma Helps You Visualize Your Musical Outlook   Musicplasma http://www.musicplasma.com = interesting, promising Online Visual Search Engine FREE Musicplasma helps you find all the artists fitting your musical tastes. Musicplasma is a visual search engine that allows to find music tracks and authors according to the musical genre they belong to. Through the basic application of some essential information... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 27

Send Email To Any Cell Number In North America Easily   A new free to use online service allows to send a text email message to any cellular number in the US, Canada, Caribbean, Hawaii, Guam. The service requires no registration and it is as simple to use as sending an email to yourcellnumber@teleflip.com. If for any... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 26

The Tiranny Of Copyright   Not long ago, the Internet's ability to provide instant, inexpensive and perfect copies of text, sound and images was heralded with the phrase ''information wants to be free.'' Yet the implications of this freedom have frightened some creators -- particularly those in the recording, publishing and... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - New York Times -- January 26

Open Source Database Gets One Step Closer To Easier Commercial Adoption: Bringing MySQL To The Masses   MySQL recently yesterday that they were launching a new application, MySQL Administrator, designed to give you a better visual understanding of how your database is actually functioning. The new Administrator software may help ease the process of moving from a proprietary system such as Access/SQL Server... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - From The Crossroads -- January 26

Kodak Stops Selling Traditional Cameras   It is already more than a week that Eastman Kodak Co. announced officially that it will stop selling traditional film cameras in the United States, Canada and Western Europe, another move by the troubled photography company to cut lines with declining appeal in favor of fast-growing... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - MSBNC -- January 25

GraphicLink: Interface Design Meets Usability   An interesting and well thought idea for an interface design solution that allows mechanical manipulation of knobs and controls find its way into effective user interface design. Unfortunately the author/company is seeking a patent on this so that no-one but them can use it. To be... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - DesignIris -- January 25

Trends In Online Collaboration   Jay Cross has a wonderful presentation accessible online that covers some of the key issues relating to eLearning and online collaboration. The audio-visual presentation was delivered during the recent online event Collaborative Learning 04 and it is as enjoyable and full of interesting points as Jay... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 25

Security in Online Collaboration   Wes Kussmaul offers some well thought out feedback to a question relating to how to best secure an online training environment. Advice covers issues of: , Identity, firewall, antivirus, use of passwords and back-ups. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Kolabora -- January 24

StarOffice 7 Makes a Run at Office   Can Sun Microsystems' StarOffice 7 supplant Microsoft Office on your desktop? With previous versions being slow and buggy, you'd probably answer no. But the speed, power, and simplicity of the latest version—combined with its minuscule price ($79.95 direct)—may change your mind. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - PC Magazine -- January 24

Google Releases Orkut Social Networking Service   Google has quietly released a social networking service called orkut, named after Orkut Buyukkokten, a Google software engineer who developed the project during personal time allowed to him by Google. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Search Engine Watch -- January 24

What It Really Takes To Get A Book Published   You can write an op-ed today that runs tomorrow, set up a Web site that sells toys in a day or two, get a million signatures and recall a governor in a couple of months. But for some reason, it takes two years to get a... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - via OLDaily -- January 23

The Scout Portal Toolkit   This is a very interesting software release with some nifty features. In addition to the usual search request features, it allows user annotation, user rating and user agents. It also adds an intelligent metadata tool to assist submissions. The free software runs on PHP and MySQL,... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - via OLDaily -- January 23

Top Of The Class Live Event Webcasting With Integrated Interaction Facilities   Communicast is a solid event conferencing support platform which integrates all of the best facilities and functionalities required by today's highly interactive meetings and presentations. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Kolabora -- January 23

Why 'Bottom Up' Is On Its Way Up   What do these things have in common: the TV show American Idol, Howard Dean's presidential campaign, eBay, and the open-source Linux operating system? ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - CNN -- January 22

How To Select Appropriate Images For Publication   Though most non-specialists approach the selection of images from a purely subjective standpoint, electing some to be nicer or more "appropriate" than others, there are indeed better and more objective methods to identify images that suit best the need to communicate, present or visualize an idea,... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Master New Media -- January 22

Live Online Events - The Art Of Interaction   For as much we fill our discourses with stories about fantastic cutting edge technologies and systems, it is rare to see the skill and art of interaction design reap the fruits of so many new innovative tools. I am just out after a few hours into... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Kolabora -- January 22

Find Out Everything About Online Publishing At Today's Premiere Live RSS Winterfest   The first RSS Winterfest is to start online in a few hours. This is a uniquely exceptional event that brings together the best minds and ideas relating to this revolutionary new technology. Find the time to log in and learn from this live online event lasting... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 21

No Child's Behind Left The New Educational Eugenics In George Bush's State Of The Union   Here's how No Child Left Behind and your tests work in the classrooms of Houston and Chicago. Millions of 8 year olds are given lists of words and phrases. They are graded, like USDA beef: some prime, some OK, many failed. Once the kids are stamped... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Greg Palast -- January 21

International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning   Just launched, a new free journal is now available in HTML and PDF format online. The International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Stephen Downes - OLDaily -- January 21

The State Of Collaboration Technologies   I am just back from a week-long trip to the US where I have truly enjoyed working with a fast-moving, forward-looking team of young developers and businessmen, crafting the newest generation of secure online shared spaces collaboration tool. If they can pull and execute the plan we... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 21

How To Select Appropriate Images For Publication   Though most non-specialists approach the selection of images from a purely subjective standpoint, electing some to be nicer or more "appropriate” than others, there are indeed better and more objective methods to identify images that suit best the need to communicate, present or visualize an idea,... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 21

Can IBM Be Really Wrong With This? Should We Start Listening?   IBM is looking to lure Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 users to Linux with new programs for business partners and customers at LinuxWorld this week. Big Blue has chosen the conference in New York City as the pulpit from which to preach about its Linux migration... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Internetnews -- January 20

Start-Up Looks to Leverage Corporate IM   Convoq ASAP is a hosted application -- all connections go through Convoq's data center -- and Flash is used to build the user interface in real time on machines that don't have the client. Flash has built-in audio and video coder/decoder so any PC that has... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - TechNewsWorld -- January 20

SightSpeed Videoconferencing Is Ready For The Mac Too   SightSpeed has announced today the availability of the Mac version of its breakthrough videoconferencing technology. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Kolabora -- January 20

What is the best webcast platform for live events?   What is the best/most affordable webcast platform for live events that: use streaming audio and text-based messaging or use a streaming platform to transmit PowerPoint slides, web pages and video? ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - [via Kolabora Forum] Alexander Williams -- January 19

WordPress: semantic personal publishing platform   WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - WordPress -- January 19

Real-time collaboration with "No Boundaries Or Rules"   New technology named NBOR includes an intuitive user interface for writing, drawing, compiling multimedia presentations and other PC tasks. It allows real-time collaboration and sends large files over the Internet at lightning speed. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Kolabora -- January 19

VideoLAN - Open Source Streaming Video Tool For Every OS   Free, Open-Source, Cross-Platform, Standards-Supporting Streaming Video Server And Client Solution. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - [via del.icio.us] Robin Good -- January 18

Instant Messaging Meets VoIP, H323, SIP and POTS Land Lines At Once: Bingo!   A new release of the Firefly technology recently launched and announced here at Kolabora is just out of the door again. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Kolabora -- January 18

RSS Tutorial for Content Publishers and Webmasters   What's in a RSS feed? How do people use feeds? Why should I make an RSS feed available? But isn't that giving away my content? Publishing RSS. Tips for Generating Good RSS Feeds. RSS Tools and Validators. Aggregators and other RSS Clients. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Mark Nottingham -- January 18

Why Kolabora? Heike Philp Asks Robin Good   Heike Philp, an online entrepreneur taking best advantage of online collaboration tools to run her business on the Internet is also one of Kolabora expert/advisors who has openly submitted key questions to help everyone understand better Kolabora's role, mission and reason d'etre. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - MasterNewMedia -- January 17

RSS WinterFest   RSS WinterFest is a Webcast on Jan. 21-22. Free to attend. Content: RSS, Atom and the future of Internet content syndication. The business applications: enterprise content syndication, RSS and advertising, and business opportunities. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - RSS WinterFest -- January 17

How The Media Deceives You About Health Issues   'We're Experts', a new book co-authored by John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton of the Center for Media and Democracy. Unlike many so-called "experts," the Center's agenda is quite overt - to expose the shenanigans of the public relations industry, which pays, influences and even invents a... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Chris Gupta - Share The Wealth -- January 17

Getting Together Without Leaving The Office   Web conferencing is the fastest-growing collaboration tool. By combining audioconferencing and the Internet, it enables organizations to train employees, conduct online customer seminars, launch new products, demonstrate software and manage projects. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - [via del.icio.us] WilsonCountyNews -- January 16

A Sense of Scale   A visual comparison of various distances. From the height of the Shuttle's typical orbit to the distance Earth travels in one second. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Paul Falstad - [via xBlog] -- January 16

The Eyes Have It   Professor Stilgoe, who teaches the art of exploration introduces his students to a method of discovering a hidden world that's always been right in plain view. Most people, when they learn to read, stop looking around. The power of acute observation is one of nature's most... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - CBS News -- January 16

Comparisons: Make Contact   The Web spawns all sorts of interesting trends that often end up affecting your life. Social networking is one of the latest. Sites devoted to the pursuit can have an impact on you, even if you don't know about them, initially. That's because some of them... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - PC Magazine -- January 15

The Future Of Business   A fascinating review of what the future of business may look like just a few years from now. An accurate analysis and outline of the tools and technologies that will take us into our next evolutionary stage of living, learning and communicating. An absolute must read.... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Dave Pollard - How To Save The World -- January 15

Top 10 Innovative Projects   List of sites that use innovative approaches to online learning. Common elements include authenticity, collaboration, the use of critical thinking skills, global implications, in-depth investigations, and a very high student motivation and engagement factor. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - [via del.icio.us] TechLEARNING -- January 15

The On Demand Network   The On Demand Network is a new type of organisation dedicated to a new type of organisation: The On Demand Network. Instead of rigid, hierarchical "command and control" management approaches, these business ventures utilise dynamic community models, a de-centralised decision-making architecture that enables agility. On Demand... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 14

Rethinking weblogging (and everything else)   [...]"don't make it so perfect you can never deliver it," "worse is better," "stop after the first 90% (because the last 10% will take the other 90% of the time)," or simply "just solve the core problem." Elegance is inversely proportional to sweat. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Bruce Eckel - [via del.icio.us] -- January 14

Howto: Future-proof URLs in Movable Type   Movable Type is a wonderful tool, but it doesn't really create the most future-proof URLs. Being the permalink enthusiast I am, I set out to make my own weblog URLs totally future-proof, and have now decided to share what I learned with the rest of you.... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Már Örlygsson -- January 14

Blogging and RSS - The "What's It?" and "How To" of Powerful New Web Tools for Educators   Two new Internet technologies, Weblogs and RSS (Real Simple Syndication), are redefining the way students and teachers use the Internet, turning them from mere readers into writers to the Web as well, and making it easier to filter and track the ever-growing number of resources coming... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Will Richardson - InfoToday [via edublognews.com] -- January 13

User Engineering   User Engineering (UE) is a significant evolutionary advancement in the process of developing offerings that satisfy and delight users, as well as the stakeholders who invest in bringing them to market. It requires an understanding of value propositions - the values that users seek, how an... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - IBM -- January 13

A Delicious Way To Personalize The Web   Delicious Social Bookmars Manager http://del.icio.us/ = breakthrough tool Online service Free The increasing complexity of navigating the Internet is becoming one of the fundamental obstacles to its effective use. This is due to the nature of the Internet, principally, a disorganized collection of both sites and site documents whose exponential growth... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 5

A Delicious Way To Personalize The Web   The increasing complexity of navigating the Internet is becoming one of the fundamental obstacles to its effective use. This is due to the nature of the Internet, principally, a disorganized collection of both sites and site documents whose exponential growth rate rapidly is outstripping any user's... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Master New Media -- January 5

Top Commercial Social Networks Reviewed   LinkedIn, Ryze, Tribe.net, Friendster and Friendzy which take hold of the six-degrees concept and put it to practical use, let you take advantage of chains of acquaintances to contact people down the line. They're known as social-networking services. Such services use the Internet to help users... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - PC Magazine -- January 4

Free Software And The Death Of Copyright   A five year old essay that is as fresh today as the day it was written. I like to celebrate and review this excellent essay by Eben Moglen, Professor of Law & Legal History at the Columbia Law School which clearly outlines the roots and foundations... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - First Monday -- January 4

Bandwidth-Adaptive Voice And Video   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Kolabora -- January 3

11 Copyright Myths   These days, almost all things are copyrighted the moment they are written, and no copyright notice is required. Copyright is still violated whether you charged money or not, only damages are affected by that. Postings to the net are not granted to the public domain, and... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Brad Templeton -- January 3

How To Achieve Maximum Exposure Among The Technorati   Blog search engines, directories, and web-based RSS aggregators that have been scouted by the author to submit his blog/site/RSS feed and to obtain the maximum level of exposure inside the blogosphere. Brief instructions are included on how to get your site listed. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Ari Paparo Dot Com -- January 3

75% of Net Users Connect Sans Browser   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - BigBlueBall.com -- January 2

Security Worries for 2004   No relief in sight? Will 2004 bring more of the same, or will it be remembered as the year in which Internet users "took back the streets" from virus writers, malicious hackers, and spammers? ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - PC World -- January 2

Understanding By Design   A new online resource entirely devoted to Information Design. It organizes and brings together a great number of resources, contacts, people and organizations that operate in the field of Information Design. Recommended. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - InfoDesign -- January 2

BitTorrent, 'Gi-Fi,' and Other Trends in 2004   Thanks to a never-ending supply of sharp minds and energy in the information technology industry, innovation will keep on marching ahead in 2004 -- good economy or bad. (But a good economy sure helps.) Editors from internetnews.com and across Jupitermedia have compiled a list of ideas/trends/innovations... read more | cat.: | Link |