Robin Good Archive Of Latest News
October 2003

Obituary Of The Webmaster   The role of Webmaster has evolved since the earliest intranet sites. In the beginning, the Webmaster was responsible for a specific Web server, and the workstation or PC on which it ran. The Webmaster installed the software and set up the Web site, often on his... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 31

Instant Messaging Meets WebEx: And Is Love At First Sight   If anyone had any doubts that instant messaging and presence awareness are at the core of effective online collaboration, here is a short but well designed Flash animated presentation that shows with a really simple example how instant messenger ARE NOT instruments "reserved to kids who... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 30

The Vision For An Educational Web   "What are needed are new networks, readily available to the public and designed to spread equal opportunity for learning and teaching. Not having found such a term, I will try to redeem the one which is available, using it as a synonym of "educational web". You can tell... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 29

Direct, Effortless Files Sharing: The Invisible FTP Is Called "Tokens"   Creo Tokens http://tinyurl.com/szfa = interesting, promising Software Tool (Win & Mac) Free for recipients - $49 for creators Last night I received an email that stroke my attention and fed my interest for the new and useful. A little masterpiece of PR work, the email, which I have copied below in... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 29

Data Transfer Speed: How To Test Your Internet Connection Speed   ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Master New Media -- October 28

The Future Of Web Conferencing: Good Interviews Gillian Kerr   I am very pleased to have with me this time someone that is involved with Web conferencing and online collaboration from a distinctly human fashion, leveraging the power of new communication technologies to facilitate development and non-profit organizations in making the best and most effective use... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 28

How To Increase Credibility And Online Visibility Through Free Sharing Of Rich And Relevant Content   If you've spent any time online trying to promote your Web site or online business, you must have very likely realised that one of the most effective ways to augment your credibility, authority, visibility, prestige and reach on a long term basis is to write your... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 27

Contextual Online Collaboration Tools   Contextual collaboration tools are already available for us to use today, and more tools that design themselves around becoming extensions of core applications are slowly emerging. While the dominating market trend in the collaboration and conferencing industry is toward building tools that are independent applications, which provide... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 26

Contextual Collaboration Is The Future Of Real-Time Conferencing Technologies   Why do users need to leave any "core" application and open up a new tool to do Web conferencing? Isn't it more natural for you to go to the Edit menu and say: "Share with - Jim Lellis"? When I talk about contextual collaboration I intend to describe... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 25

The Future Of Web Conferencing: Good Interviews David Woolley   Here is the man that probably knows the most about how the universe of Web conferencing and online collaboration tools has evolved until now. David Woolley is one of the pioneers of the online conferencing industry and his experience with the development and use of asynchronous... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 24

100 Percent Virus-Free Mac OS X Adds More Privacy And Security   If you hadn't realized it yet, a 100 percent virus free computing environment is not as far fetched and away in the future as most Windows users would think. Mac OS X, due to its natively-secure architecture and limited popularity has been consistently able to keep itself... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 23

The Future Of Web Conferencing: Good Interviews Rich Baker   If you work in the real-time collaboration industry, inside a Web conferencing company, or develop technologies that allow people to communicate through the Internet, you owe it to yourself to stop and take the time to read carefully through the pre-monitions, anticipations and sheer innovative ideas... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 22

Free Trade For Education's Future?   Pursuing free trade in the education sector requires dealing with education according to trade law principles. This conflicts with the protection of the right to education in international human rights law. Nearly every country worldwide has ratified one or more of the relevant international human rights... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 21

Want To Design And Deliver Great PowerPoint Presentations?   I am just about ready to send out a new issue of MasterView International, my monthly information-paced newsletter about creating and managing PowerPoint presentations for international audiences. Issue #20 of MasterView brings to your inbox a full text-based report of 25 pages which includes the following titles: ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 21

Hollywood Goes Back To Frank: New Creative Commons License Paves The Road For More Creative Expression   I had seen it coming and I had pictured right in my head. (See Special Feature: "Bat N'Avò Goes To Hollywood: How To Be A Profitable Online Music Band in The Age of Ethical Sharing and Collaboration") Here it is, what I had originally envisioned come alive in... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 20

Looking For A Cost-Effective and Powerful Online Collaboration Solution? Stop Running. Ask The Expert: Robin Good Spills The Beans Again!   Open Q&A Group Session Online How do you find out which are the newest and best Web conferencing tools? Is there anyone tool that can do what GoToMyPC does while accepting multiple users? If you need to do remote technical support and assistance to geographically dispersed groups, what tools... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 20

The Future Of Web Conferencing: Good Interviews David Fowler   Let me have the honour of introducing to you Mr David Fowler of Groove Workspace. Mr Fowler is VP of Marketing and Sales for Groove Networks, a fast-growing real-time collaboration company with a strong financial backing from Microsoft. Nonetheless Mr Fowler, who I have never met or... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 20

Wireless Body Networking At 10 Megabits/Sec   The ElectAura-Net is a true 10-Mbit/second wireless body network that takes advantage of human bodies and standard indoor floors to create highly efficient and reliable networks. Roland Piquepaille reports in his excellent Technology Trends column: In "Human Body Network Gets Fast," Technology Research News tells us that... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 19

How Will P2P File-Sharing Evolve Under Present Hostile Threats?   The RIAA has taken us on a tour of networking strategies in the last few years, by constantly changing the environment file-sharing systems operate in. In hostile environments, organisms often adapt to become less energetic but harder to kill, and so it is now. With... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 18

The Future Of Web Conferencing: Good Interviews David Smith   Here is David Smith, a true student and careful observer of the Web conferencing industry. David is a true gentleman who has been working to educate and facilitate the adoption of many different Web conferencing systems for both large and small companies. His company Obidicut LLC offers... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 17

Learn How To Become An Independent Online Journalist/Reporter/Opinion Maker   New Internship Opportunities With Robin Good Learn How To Become An Independent Online Journalist/Reporter/Opinion Maker Learn-by-doing how to make a profit while sharing your best know-how with others and having to continuously study and research your favourite topic(s). Become an online knowledge entrepreneur, an online publisher/author, or a skilled... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 16

Remote Control Ready For Take Off: License Missing   Though I have been long a supporter and evangelist of GoToMyPC technology, through it I have discovered something that has hit me stronger than most things do. The fact is that online collaboration technologies, and in particular the ability to snoop, monitor, track or even hijack your... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 15

The Future Of Web Conferencing: Good Interviews Dennis Gerik   Virtually in front of me this time is Dennis Gerik, the Chief Operating Officer of Voxwire a small Web conferencing company which has been setting the record straight for outstanding Voice-over-IP technology complemented by basic conferencing facilities (Web touring, text chat, file sending, etc.) at a... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 14

Open Access Publishing   Public Library of Science Goes Live: A bold and controversial experiment in academic publishing -- which may have ramifications in commercial publishing -- will go live on today: The first of a proposed cluster of journals from the ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 13

Microsoft Ready To Achieve Lock-in   A new report available online sheds even more light on how bad the situation relating to what was originally known as Microsoft Palladium and later as TCPA is rapidly becoming. The report, entitled "Trusted Computing: Promise and Risk" maintains that computer owners themselves, rather than the companies... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 12

The Beginning Of The End Of The Internet?   Stephen Downes points ot this highly interesting news byte: The U.S. Federal Communications Commissioner (FCC) warns that the Internet "may be dying" because of changes in legislation that may allow major corporations "to control the internet's choke points" and dictate what innovations may be allowed, what content... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 11

The Future Of Web Conferencing: Good Interviews Paul Coffey   "The Future Of Web Conferencing" - Interview n°4 Seven questions to Paul Coffey to explore potential, opportunities and threats of our future online as seen from a small Web conferencing entrepreneur point-of-view. I know Paul Coffey since over a year now and I have always appreciated his frank,... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 9

Cluetrain Advertising Paradigm Makes Blogs Ideal Marketing Venue   Cluetrain Advertising Paradigm Makes Blogs Ideal Marketing Venue For Small And Ethical Advertisers While Bringing Sustainability To Independent Opinion Makers "We are in a place in time where individuals can use channels of communication formerly only available to large corporations. It is possible for me, as... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 8

How To Receive RSS Feeds In Your Email In Four Simple Steps   After having explored the ingenious RSS-to-email service brought to you by the great guys at BlogStreet, here is another breakthrough solution that allows ANYONE on any computer platform to immediately try out RSS feeds without having to learn anything new, and without needing to download/buy a... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 3

The Future Of Online Collaboration   Seven questions to explore potential, opportunities and threats of our future online. Here is the second interview about the future Web conferencing though this really represents an appetizer for a second set of interviews to start in December and focussing specifically on the future of online collaboration,... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 1

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