Robin Good Archive Of Latest News
December 2003

Best Practices For Web Page Development   This article by the Apple team who developed the new Safari browser gives some practical hints on how to create standards-conforming websites, and to work around some of issues that will arise for Explorer for Windows. Topics covered include: which DOCTYPE do you use? Do you... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Apple Developer Connection -- December 31

Online Celebration With Live Collaboration Tools   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Master New Media -- December 31

2003's Top Ten IM Trends   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Instant Messaging Planet -- December 31

JNet's Top Picks of 2003   Here is a short but valuable selection of information gathering and access tools that can add a lot of value to any journalist, reporter or online blogger. If you are not aware or have not used some of the tools and services listed there, you should... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Journalism Net -- December 31

Blogs As Information Spaces   This resource is temporary unavailable ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Reflective Surface -- December 31

Online Celebration With Live Collaboration Tools   In the full spirit of what Robin Good has best to offer I will follow my instinct and play the humble guest for my first New Year's celebration online. a) I want to help others learn more about technologies that help them communicate and learn more effectively,... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 31

Corporate Online Collaboration Done Right   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Network World Fusion -- December 30

Take Back The Net   Then something beautiful happened. Early this decade, several new communication tools bubbled up from the far reaches of the Internet. These were tools that could at long last fulfill the Web's initial promise, nurturing a free exchange of ideas. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - PC Magazine -- December 30

How To Maintain A Great Blog In Less than Three Hours A Day   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - How To Save The World -- December 30

How to copy any DVD to one recordable DVD   Guide explains how to copy any DVD-Video, including menus and extra materials, to a one recordable DVD(DVD+R/W or DVD-R/W) using the simpliest, fastest and cheapest tools available. If your DVD source is under 4.38 GB (so called DVD-5), you can make an exact copy of the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - DVDRHelp -- December 29

Best PC to Mac videoconferencing tools   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Kolabora Forum -- December 29

RSS NewsReaders And Aggregators Online Resource   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Abbe Normal -- December 29

Test Your Web Site Download Time Across Different Connection Speeds   Test the download time for any public web page on the Internet and review access times at 14.4, 28.8, 33.6, 56K, ISDN, and T1 connection speeds. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Websiteoptimization.com -- December 28

iCapture   The perfect complement to Browsercam.com: test your Web site on a Mac Safari browser without having to own one. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - iCapture -- December 28

Advice to Prospective Book Authors   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Scott Meyers -- December 28

Free Online Drop and Pick-Up Exchange For Sending Files   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Dropload -- December 26

The best anti-spam solutions for Windows   The best and the worst effects of the various options out there. Also tested many of the more popular options in older to see if they stand up to the hype. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - ArsTechnica -- December 26

Synthetic RSS feeds -- some ideas on the future of syndication   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 26

Standards: Do We Really Need Them?   I have decided to write this article because I became gradually interested with online collaboration technologies and with their ability and potential to influence and shape the kind of future we are going to be living in. I am not certainly a specialist in the field of... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 26

Cool Tools from Kevin Kelly   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Internet Archive -- December 25

Santa's Mass Storage Solution Is Called NetDisk   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Ximeta -- December 25

Banks In The US Switch From OS2 To Windows: Hackers Celebrate   Automated teller machines operated by two financial services customers were struck by the W32/Nachi worm. Growing security concern about vulnerability of cash machines running Windows XP and interacting with other Windows systems. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - PC World -- December 23

Media Control: Open communication technologies as actors enabling a shift in the status quo   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - infoSophy -- December 23

Dreamweaver MX Vs. GoLive 6: Battle of the WYSIWYGs   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Digital Web Magazine -- December 22

Abusable Technologies Awareness Center   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - ATAC -- December 22

Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2003   Sites are getting better at using minimalist design, maintaining archives, and offering comprehensive services. However, these advances entail their own usability problems, as several prominent mistakes from 2003 show. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 22

Blog Design Showcase   This is a collection of outstanding blog designs and thoughts on what makes them such. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Cre8d Journal -- December 22

Patterns In Interaction Design   A unique and well organized collection of interface/interaction design visual solutions organized according to type of use and application (navigation, searching, etc.). Highly recommended. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Martijn van Welie -- December 22

The Software That Found Saddam: Actionable Intelligence Through Visual Search   Analyst's Notebook is a very powerful visual analysis software which may bring extraordinary clarity to complex investigations and intelligence analysis. It enables investigators and analysts to turn large volumes of disparate data into "visible" patterns and truly actionable intelligence. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 22

RSS feeds - the new email newsletter?   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - From The Crossroads -- December 22

Open Source e-Commerce Shopping Cart: Well Designed And Free!   A free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart system. Developed by group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants that think e-commerce could be and should be done differently. Zen Cart™ can be installed and set-up by anyone with the most basic computer skills. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Zen Cart -- December 22

Optical Illusion At Its Best: Are They Moving Or Not?   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Akitaoka jp -- December 22

Best Open-Source Solutions For 2003   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - OSDir -- December 21

Samorost by Amanita Design   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - del.icio.us -- December 21

Ruling Stops Record Labels And RIAA In Their Tracks   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - PC World -- December 20

Designs on Democracy: Communication for Liberation   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Social Design Notes -- December 20

We-Learning: Social Software and E-Learning   Early e-learning traded technology for human interaction. Now, the personal element is being added back in. New social software tools borrowed from business and the younger generations combine tech and touch for the best of all possible worlds (including virtual ones). ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Learning Circuits -- December 20

The Future Of Web Conferencing: Good Interviews Heike Philp   Heike Philp is the first interviewee in this series that has expressly requested me to cover the business and entrepreneurial aspects of utilizing new media communication tools to deliver live training services on the Internet. Heike seems to have been quite successful at this, as she does... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 19

Copernic Launches Meta - The Best Alternative To Google Deskbar/Toolbar   Copernic Meta is an add-in for Windows and Internet Explorer that provides quick access to powerful Web searching by performing simultaneous searches on Kultiple search engines. One-step installation - Less than 1 min. to download (700 KB) - Copernic Meta is always available in a single... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Copernic -- December 18

How to Get Your Products Featured in the Mainstream   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - MarketingProfs -- December 18

Beyond Wi-Fi: A New Wireless Age   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Business Week -- December 17

Desktop Visual Search Engine Extends Researchers' Information View   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Master New Media -- December 17

Free Culture Created In Real-Time   A new Creative Commons Flash-based story that tells through animation, music and voice the giants steps forward that the global community of individual artists, publishers, writers and musicians have been making thanks to Creative Commons open licensing schemes. The rules have changed and it is just... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Creative Commons -- December 17

Desktop Visual Search Engine Extends Researchers' Information View   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Master New Media -- December 17

Desktop Visual Search Engine Extends Researchers' Information View   Grokker 2.0 http://www.groxis.com/service/grok/ = breakthrough tool Desktop Software (Win & Mac) Free to try - USD $ 49 to buy Grokker is a phenomenal search tool ahead of its time. Visual metaphors that simplify and expand our ability wade and sift through information are starting to appear in mainstream applications and... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 17

Are RFID Tags A Privacy Threat We Should be Concerned About?   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Master New Media -- December 16

Are RFID Tags A Privacy Threat We Should be Concerned About?   As some of you may have been able to read from the news of the last few days officials participating at the World Information Society Forum in Geneva were provided with RFID badges (radio-frequency identification chips) having the ability to monitor the wondering and detailed... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 16

Separate Design From Content Publishing   It is through pure coincidence that I have stumbled upon these interface designs I had created three years ago for FAO, an organization of the UN. Click to enlarge Click to enlarge These designs were created for the Fisheries Department and were the consequence... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 15

Fighting Phishing   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - PC Mag -- December 15

Separate Design From Content Publishing   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Master New Media -- December 15

Google News Alert (BETA) Is Up Again!   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Google -- December 15

A Picture Is Worth 30 Billion Web Pages   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Groxis -- December 15

Bug devices track officials at summit   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - The Washington Times -- December 14

Shaping Information Societies for Human Needs   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - WSIS Online -- December 14

PowerPoint Makes You Dumb   PowerPoint is the world's most popular tool for presenting information. 400 million copies in circulation, and almost no corporate decision takes place without it. But what if PowerPoint is actually making us stupider? ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - New York Times -- December 14

The Future Of Web Conferencing: Good Interviews Stuart Henshall   Stuart Henshall is an expert in the use of new media technologies in the workplace. His current obsessions are social networking tools, social software, blogging, wikis, and the revolution taking place around voice communications. I have only recently made the acquaintance with Stuart thanks to a... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 13

Affective Computing   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - MIT Media Lab -- December 13

Widgetopia   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Widgetopia -- December 13

How To Search RSS Channels For News   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - GILS RSS -- December 13

Hot Stuff for 2004   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Entrepreneur.com -- December 13

15 Top PowerPoint Tips   PowerPoint has features - many of which aren't well documented - that can help you work faster and make cooler presentations. Here are 15 insider tips that can help you use PowerPoint like a pro. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - PC Mag -- December 12

Can CC Kill Spam?   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Creative Commons -- December 11

A Net of Control   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - MSBNC -- December 11

IM Your Photos   Free photo-sharing/IM client that looks and feels like an instant messaging app. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - PC Mag -- December 11

Low-Cost Appliance Makes Videophoning Accessible To Anyone With A Standard Phone Line   Beamer Videophone http://www.vialta.com = breakthrough technology Hardware Telephony Starts at USD $ 149 A newly launched appliance allows anyone to start videophoning anyone else on earth using the same technology while not requiring any type of special telephone technology, Internet connection or service subscription to be utilized. This new technology solution... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 10

WSIS Draft Declaration of Principles and Draft Plan of Action   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - ICTlogy -- December 10

Must-Have RSS Newsfeed For Communication Experts   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Master New Media -- December 10

The Second Most Important Property of the Web   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - MIT Technology Review -- December 10

Must-Have RSS Newsfeed For Communication Experts   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Master New Media -- December 10

Must-Have RSS Newsfeed For Communication Experts   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Master New Media -- December 10

My 2004 Crystal Ball: Search, Social Networks, Reputation, RSS   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Jeremy Zawodny -- December 9

Must-Have RSS Newsfeed For Communication Experts   I have just finished testing a new RSS newsfeed that I have created for all of you, communication experts in need of staying up-to-date with cutting-edge and cost-effective tools, ideas and resources that can make a difference when looking for a sound communication strategy or solution. The... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 9

Poor need knowledge not only technology to bridge digital divide: experts   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Yahoo News -- December 9

'Taxocrats': Hands off VoIP!   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - ZD Net -- December 9

New Search Engine Relationship Map (Flash)   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Bruce Clay -- December 9

Why should open source software be used in schools?   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Linux Universe -- December 9

Non-profits: Choosing the right technical solution   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Charity Village -- December 8

Case Study: Using a Weblog to Achieve #1 Rankings in Google   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Commoncraft -- December 8

No More Phone Bills: We Can Have OUR Telephone System Now!   This is breakthrough information. Fasten your seat belt now. a) $3-5 a week b) no phone bill c) free 710Kbit dedicated Internet access d) free video conferencing e) free mobile phone calls f) free instant messengers g) free SMS, free MMS, h) more Too good to be true? Read on... "New developments in wireless technology have presented... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 8

Imagine Islands Entirely Powered by Renewable Energy   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 7

World Information Society: Care About Thinking?   Here is a fresh, short, first-hand report from Genev