Robin Good Archive Of Latest News
February 2004

Queryster: Simplifies Seach By Aggregating Search Results   "Queryster is a great tool for searching multiple search engines. Simply type in your search term and select your preferred search engine. The cool thing about. If you want to carry out another query on another search engine, just click your choice and hit return. The... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Queryster - [via Marketing Tom] -- February 29

Anonymous Surfing: How To Hide Your IP   Do you want to obtain maximum privacy while surfing certain online destinations? The "IP Address Changer" allows you to change your IP anytime by routing your Internet traffic through overseas servers. A small dropdown box appears on your Internet Explorer toolbar with a list of 15... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - PrivacyTools -- February 29

How To Convert Acrobat PDFs Into Editable Microsoft Word Documents   ScanSoft PDF Converter is the world's #1 solution for instantly turning PDFs into fully formatted Microsoft Word documents -- complete with text, columns, tables, and graphics. Developed in a collaboration between ScanSoft and Microsoft, PDF Converter works within the applications that you use every day, including... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - ScanSoft -- February 28

Basecamp Makes Distributed Project Work An Online Pleasure To Manage   This is an ideal asynchronous collaboration tool for distributed project teams working on keeping their tasks, files, calendar and notes in great synch. The classical idea of a "project site" originally brought about by David Siegel has greatly evolved over time adjusting and flexing to accomodate... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 28

How To Design A Professional Survey   Knowing what the client wants is the key factor to success in any type of business. News media, government agencies and political candidates need to know what the public thinks. Associations need to know what their members want. Large companies need to measure the attitudes of... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - The Survey System -- February 27

Fight Back The RIAA With Your Music Check   If you are in the US the music industry CD Price Fixing Settlement check is in the mail.This is just the tip of the iceberg in the entertainment industry's abuse of power to maintain absolute control over their products and make a buck ... at the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - DonateMyMusicCheck -- February 27

Information Control For Social Manipulation   The news and entertainment we consume, and thus our thoughts and opinions, are shaped not just by the media and entertainment corporations but by governments, their agencies and the military-industrial complex. "It's possible the entertainment industry could help the government formulate its message to the rest... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Nexus -- February 27

So, What Do Experts Need To Prepare For A Killer Web Event?   From the feedback I have been receiving and the comments being posted so far the first Kolabora Live! event has been a definite breakthrough for many though our follow up and comments have all centered around issues that related to the format, style and technology utilized... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Kolabora Live! -- February 26

How RSS Can Succeed   An excellent short explanatory article by Stephen Downes on what RSS can succeed and which are the mechanisms behind its likely success. Stephen showcases as a good reference of how RSS can be best leveraged his own Edu RSS Topics a truly effective example of a... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Stephen Downes -- February 26

DVD Owners: Fight the Power!   In yet another stunning display of complete disregard for individual rights, US District Judge Susan Illston has now ruled that DVD X Copy violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. This software provides an easy way to back up your DVDs. 321 Studios, the maker of DVD... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - ExtremeTech -- February 26

Cluetrain Style: First Large Live Videoconferencing Event Makes Impending Socio-Technical Shifts Self-Evident   If there is something unique to say about the first Kolabora Live! online event, is that it was absolutely unlike any other Internet event I have been before. Set to break many of the conventions and formalities typical of online Web conferences and presentations, the Kolabora... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Kolabora Live! -- February 25

The Collaborative Travel Guide To The World   Travellers are the most reliable source of information for other travellers. World66 is a new fascinating project taking serious advantage of the potential of wikis, online collaboration, and growing desire and interest to find personal reports and travel-agency-packaged information about destinations and places from all over the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 25

Are You Stuck In The Past?   Here is an interesting set of visual displays synhtesizing with great clarity the key differences and socio-technical shifts characterizing the television era from the Internet one. Your reflection should be on how much your Web-based communication efforts and style still reflect the traits and characteristics of... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - [via Jay Cross] -- February 25

First Kolabora Live! Event In Full Audio And Video   Today Tuesday February the 24th at 12 noon EDT the first Kolabora Live! online event will take place with special guests Jay Cross, Nancy White, Wes Kussmaul and Heike Philp. Moderates Stephanie Downs of ConferZone all in simultaneous full audio and video. Thanks to Robin Good,... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Kolabora Live! -- February 24

Designing For Limited Resources   Even in an ideal world, designs must optimize both the user experience and the business return. When resources are limited, the design must be optimized to make the best use of all resources as well. To account for this complexity, it is important to have a... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Boxesandarrows -- February 24

What Is Information Design And How It Can Be Used   Information design is concerned with making complex information easier to understand and to use. It is a rapidly growing discipline that draws on typography, graphic design, applied linguistics, applied psychology, applied ergonomics, computing, and other fields. It emerged as a response to people's need to understand... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Design Council -- February 24

RSS: A Big Success In Danger of Failure   There's a lot of hoopla out these days about RSS. RSS is an XML-based standard for summarizing and ultimately syndicating web-site content. Adoption and usage of RSS has taken off in the past few years leading some to suggest that it will play a central role... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - The Weekly Read -- February 23

Free Skype Goes Conferencing!   Up to 5 people can now Skype together from anywhere in the world. A few minutes ago Skype announced the world's first peer-to-peer (P2P) Internet telephony conference calling feature, allowing up to five friends to talk with each other simultaneously, regardless of geography. Skype installs quickly... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 23

Can RSS Be A Solution To Spam?   eNewsletter Journal interviewed a) Meryl K. Evans, editor of eNewsletter Journal and writer for Lockergnome a publisher of nine e-newsletters with a technical audience of 1,554,000; b) Hank Stroll, publisher of InternetVIZ.com, a custom publisher of 21 eJournals that go out to over 344,000 business executives;... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 23

FireFox   I am very happily testing Mozilla FireFox (formerly FireBird), a new standards-based browser that in my opinion may soon give a serious dent into Microsoft Internet Explorer usage by those that are not in favour of being under a complete Microsoft monopoly (please note that the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 22

UnixBSD (Mac OSX) Is The World's Safest Operating Systems   UK-based security firm mi2g has analyzed 17,074 successful digital attacks against servers and networks. The results may be surprising for some. The study by mi2g Intelligence Unit reveals in fact that the world's safest and most secure online server Operating System (OS) is proving to be... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - [via Slashdot] -- February 22

Top 75 Security Tools   Here is a great list of security tools that can be used to detect, monitor, report, track and identify issues and problems relating to your online/network privacy and security. Recommended. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - [via del.icio.us] -- February 22

How To Create PDFs For Free   New free PDF converter creates high-quality PDF from any printable file type. PrimoPDF converts to PDF from any application by simply 'printing' to the PrimoPDF printer. You can create high-quality PDFs by converting from Word, Excel, PowerPoint and virtually any other printable file type. This is a... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 21

The Interactive Google Guide   The absolutely best tutorial on how to use all of Google's potential. Easy to use, simple to navigate, this is a little jewel for both the novice and advanced search user. The definitive up-to-date guide on how to best leverage the Google search engine and all... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - [via del.icio.us] -- February 21

Web Site Usability Checklist   Search engine promotion is important: most visitors use a search engine to find your site. But once they arrive, they have to be able to actually use the site and understand the content. Otherwise, your site is a waste of their time. A well prepared, organized... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 21

Finding Your Spot On The Map   Multimap.com is Europe's most popular mapping web site, offering a range of free, useful services to assist with everyday life. Key features include street-level maps of the United Kingdom, Europe, and the US; road maps of the world; door-to-door travel directions; aerial photographs; and local information.... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Multimap -- February 20

Star Office Takes On Microsoft With PDF Tools   With the release of the new StarOffice 7 for Sun Solaris last month, Sun Microsystems noticeably chipped away at Microsoft's Office juggernaut. Learn how the office suite's PDF capabilities are bolstering its appeal. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - PDF World -- February 20

The Birth Of The NewsMaster: The Network Starts To Organize Itself   NewsMasters: RSS And The Opportunity For Sustainable Filtering And Aggregation Of Online Content Into Niche Websites And Dedicated Information Channels An independent publisher opportunity and a socially valuable way of filtering and organizing news information and the Web at large. Photo credit: Emsago from Stock Exchange Introduction Yesterday, at the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 19

Nobody Gives Me A Better Newsfix   If you want to experience the best free online service that allows you to read, filter and aggregate RSS news feeds without getting stressed with too many technicalities you need to look no further than Bloglines. Bloglines scans over 70,000 RSS-based content feeds and allows you... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 19

10 Steps To Measuring Web Site Success   Is your Web site working? How would you know? Clients constantly ask what they should be measuring, and the answer is always, “It depends.” So for all of you who have wondered the same thing, here is the handy-dandy How-To Guide for measuring the success of... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - MarketingProfs -- February 19

Search Grid: Test Alternative Keyphrase Combinations On Google   If you have ever wondered how various combinations of search keywords can affect the number and quality of the results you are going to get, there is now a new simple online tool to use that can rapidly answer your doubt: SearchGrid. To use the grid,... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - via Researchbuzz -- February 19

Better Than The Google Toolbar: Extend Google Search Reach With Copernic New Fast Meta Search   Copernic Meta is a new capable search software tool which seeks information across multiple search engines at once. Meta pulls results in under a second directly from the Windows task bar or an Internet Explorer browser. With the newest release of Copernic Meta (1.5) you will... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 18

Native YahooGroups RSS Feeds Are Here   YahooGroups now provides direct RSS feeds natively. If your preferred YahooGroup is set for open, public viewing of the message archives, then you need only to add the extension "messages?rss=1" to the complete URL and you have a full RSS feed for that YahooGroup. As simple... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good [via Joseph Daisy] -- February 18

3D Collaborative World In Development   Imagine a future where you have instant access to all data you need, in a worldwide collaborative environment, where tools can developed independently but still cooperate as a single application. The Uni-Verse project started at Feb 1, 2004 with 1.9 Million Euro in funding from the European Commission.... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - via Joseph Daisy -- February 17

Refresher: What Is RSS?   Just in case you haven't had yet time to look in to this: all the news, all the time, coming at you. Nobody wants to go to the Internet and search for news stories; I want them to come directly to me. So many news stories;... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - via RSS Lockergnome -- February 17

Value-Driven Intranet Design   Within most corporations, taking ownership of an intranet is an unglamorous, exhausting, and thankless job for a new intranet manager. Many corporate intranets lack thoughtful, focused, and disciplined design and are often extremely large and unwieldy. Fixing these intranets can seem an impossible and futile task.... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - boxesandarrows -- February 17

How To Make Yourself Invisible Online While Hiding Your IP Address   A great online resource providing extensive advice, guidance and online resources meant to extend your privacy while surfing to the maximum. This is a great Web site helping those needing to anonimize their Web navigation through the use of proxies and several other stealth techniques. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - via del.icio.us -- February 16

Create Your Own Bootable Windows On CD-ROM/DVD   Bart's PE Builder helps you build a bootable Windows CD-ROM or DVD from the original Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installation/setup CD, very suitable for PC maintenance tasks. It will give you a complete Win32 environment with network support, a graphical user interface (800x600) and... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 16

Managing the Complexity Of Content Management   Content management systems suck. Or so you would think from the strife heard from analysts and practitioners alike. And yet, many websites regularly publish vast amounts of information with superior control and ease compared to manually editing pages. So where's the disconnect between what's possible and... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - boxesandarrows -- February 16

Best Ideas, Methods And Tools To Keep Track Of Geeks' Ideas And Information   As the amount of information coming at us increases in quantity and variety, the tools that and the methods allow heavy information users to keep afloat are getting to be as critical as the ability write or read. This short post provides a wealth of pointers... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 15

Privacy And Security To Go   PIP works with almost any kind of a removable storage device, from a USB flash drive to a FireWire-equipped digital camera. Upon installation, PIP copies your e-mail account (messages and contacts) to your selected removable storage device. It also copies personal Internet data such as History,... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - PC Magazine -- February 15

Erase All Traces Of Your Browsing Activity At Will   Products that can eradicate all traces of your online activity have their place, but on your own computer they may be overkill. Features like AutoComplete, recently used file lists, and cookies were invented to ease and enhance your browsing experience, after all. FreeToGo 1.2 ($24.95 direct)... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - PC Magazine -- February 15

Maximum ExpoRSSure And Visibility: RSSTop55 Premium Is Here   As promised, here it is, the Premium version of the RSSTop55. With an updated, expanded and fully ranked list of 59 online resources plus ten uniquely innovative gems to further facilitate increased exposure and visibility for your RSS-based content this list is the best resource to... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 14

Live Online Presentations: Learn From Those Who Have Been There Before You. Kolabora Live!   With already more than 150 registered participants and two weeks still to go, the first Kolabora Live! event is set to be an interesting new online venue for discussing many of the hot issues and future scenarios relating to the worlds of Web conferencing and online... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Kolabora -- February 14

The Origins Of User Interface Patterns   Have you ever asked questions like "Where can I use icons in my application? Where shall I place the header and detail data? Should I provide collapsible screen areas? How will users search? What about inserting new lines in a table? How to...?" while developing the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - SAP Design Guild -- February 14

Web Usability: A New International Standard   "ISO is developing a new standard for web usability. The new standard will be of interest to anyone who designs, evaluates or commissions web sites and it is likely to have a significant impact in improving the overall usability of the web." ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - via InfoDesign: Understanding By Design -- February 14

Maximum ExpoRSSure And Visibility: RSSTop55 Premium (coming up)   Yes, I have listened to your requests and recommendations and here it is. Coming in a few hours is the new RSSTop55 Premium. A personally crafted version of the RSSTop55 giving you an ordered list according to how popular these RSS directories and search engines are... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 13

How Wireless Could Stop 'Piracy' And Doom DRM And Microsoft TCPA/NGSCB Strategy   Don't worry about DRM and lock-down computing. Historically they're doomed to fail. The former director of Geffen's technology group believes that wireless networks such as 3G, 4G and WiFi will provide the tipping point at which the entertainment industries come to the table to cut a... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - via Stephen Downes OL Daily -- February 13

The Hoover Of Web Site Content   Aaron's WebVacuum grabs all types of files from Web sites. It can be set up to download pictures, mp3s, videos, programs, or any other file type that the user specifies. It's what we call the "Hoover" of Web site content, and it can be used to... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Lockergnome Windows File Of The Day -- February 13

P2P File Sharing Yet Unexpressed Content Distribution Potential   Do you know about Bit Torrent? If the New York Times starts to write about it, there must be something interesting in it. Learn what is Bit Torrent and why is so potentially powerful as to inspire the possibility of new file sharing paradigms. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - New York Times -- February 13

Focussed Search   Meceoo metasearch engine searches into the main worldwide Web search engines such as AltaVista, AllTheWeb and Inktomi. The search engines used are different depending on the request made by the user (number of words, requested langage, etc…). Its originality comes from the avaibility for users to... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Meceoo -- February 12

Emerging Technologies For Emerging Enterprises   Rajesh Jain closely analyzes the opportunities and duties confronting small and medium sized organizations outside of the US and outlines the key levels at which these companies need to work to drastically improve their operational efficiency. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 12

Organic Visualization Lets You See Content Structure And Relative Traffic Through Your Site In A New Effective Way   This fascinating project originating at the MIT Media Lab in Boston, uses the process of organic information design to visualize the changing structure of a Web site, juxtaposed with usage and traffic information. Very interesting indeed. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 12

Easy Expert Google Search   Soople is a new online search engine interface to Google which allows easy access to all of the great advanced search features of Google unknown to most people. Soople organizes all of Google advanced search facilities in one easy-to-use search page. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 11

Interface Impact When Developing And Teaching Online Courses   An interesting interview with Elaine Bontempi covering the strategies and methods utilized to complement online training courses with effective graphics, visuals and interface design elements. Sound instructional design, accessibility and ease of use remain key pillars for effective design of elearning interfaces. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 11

Can E-Mail Survive?   42 percent of the 500 American small businesses it surveyed said they would actually consider abandoning e-mail for business correspondence if the spam situation worsens. Not that today's antispam tools are useless. Many can stop a good portion of the junk mail streaming into your in-box,... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - PC Magazine -- February 11

Kolabora Live! "What Experts Need To Do To Prepare For A Killer Web Event"   The first live Kolabora Live! event is a 60-minute experts-panel focus on what it really takes to prepare for such a killer online event. Scheduled for Tuesday February the 24th this is an event that can't be missed by those among of you who need to... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Kolabora -- February 10

How To Evaluate A Content Management System   Selecting and implementing a content management system (CMS) will be one of the largest IT projects tackled by many organisations. With costs running into the millions of dollars, it is vital that the right CMS package be selected. This article outlines some of the lessons learnt... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Step Two Designs -- February 10

Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask   Evaluating web pages skillfully requires you to do two things at once: a) Train your eye and your fingers to employ a series of techniques that help you quickly find what you need to know about web pages; b) Train your mind to think critically, even suspiciously,... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - UC Berkeley Library -- February 10

Six Tips For Better RSS Feeds   RSS and XML-based content syndication are really taking off. News organizations (like the NY Times) and business are increasingly using RSS to syndicate their content. RSS is also becoming the spam-free alternative to email newsletters. Most RSS feeds are automagically generated from a content management system.... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Writing The Web -- February 9

RSS NewsWatcher   RSS NewsWatcher is a new, Windows-based, RSS newsreader and aggregator from Scopeware, a company dedicated to develop innovative quality search tools. The tool is available for free download for a limited time. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 9

Automated Software Agents: The Spot For All Bots   Online resource dedicated to list, organize and describe all instances of bots, such as automated search tools, search engine crawlers and other automated software agents which can be used for different purposes. Windows and Mac sections. Bots categories include: Search, Shopping, Tracking, Web monitoring, Chatterbots, Personal... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 9

Instant Messaging Meets RSS News   Gush makes instant messaging and news aggregation simple, functional, and attractive. Its not just pretty looks -- Gush provides several unique features such as Split Chat, real IM conversation management, IM Announcements, and a tabbed News Reader. Gush also has many advantages over AOL IM, MSN... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 8

Share Safely And Wisely: The Music Pirates Manifesto   It probably won't be long before such writing is out-and-out illegal, since it argues that the consumer's best response to digital rights technologies that strip users of their rights is to "share safely and wisely. Use P2P networks that allow you to be anonymous or hide the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - via Stepehen Downes OL Daily -- February 8

Knowledge Discovery Resource Tools   Data mining, competitive intelligence, global business knowledge. Where to find the latest news and information resources and how to scout for more with the tools and online services available today. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Marcus P. Zillman -- February 8

The Next Big Thing In Search: Open Source   Web search is a basic requirement for internet navigation, yet the number of web search engines is decreasing. Today's oligopoly could soon be a monopoly, with a single company controlling nearly all web search for its commercial gain. That would not be good for users of... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 7

Adding Online Discussions And Forums To Live Physical Conferences And Events   Increasingly conference organizers are thinking of adding an online discussion to the in-person proceedings. This is a good thing to do and strongly encouraged, since it adds a dimension not possible to achieve with a strictly in-person event. This paper was written in response to a... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 7

Open-Source Content Management Systems   Open-source content management systems are not going to replace offerings from commercial vendors. They do, however, offer an increasingly viable alternative for many businesses looking to obtain a CMS. Open-source solutions should be evaluated side-by-side with commercial CMSs as part of a tender process. Judged on... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - via Stephen Downes OLDaily -- February 7

How To Scrape A Web Site   A quick overview of screen scraping. A technical read for webmasters who want to get te basics of how to create an RSS feed for any site that is not under their direct control. Highly recommended. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 6

How To Send Big Files Through Firewalls   Many times you find yourself unable to send a file to someone either since the file is too big and you cannot mail it, or your friend is behind a mean firewall. Now you can send heavy PowerPoint presentation to your colleagues or send that 700MB... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Maileet -- February 6

Networks For The Future: To .NET or Not?   Networks, including the Internet, company intranets, personal home networks, community nets, and more, are quickly becoming the lifeblood of society. But pressure is on to control our publicly accessible networks, and with it, to control our speech, preferences, and interactions with the networked world. Toward understanding... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - NetAction [via Josef Daisy] -- February 6

What's Wrong With KM Software?   One of the problems we've got with social software is that it relies on a large architectural model. But this doesn't serve goal-oriented groups terribly well. I'm beginning to think that a better model is shipbuilding, where the goal is to provide groups with a place... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Mopsos -- February 5

MyDoom Virus, Kazaa And The Dangers of Peer-to-Peer   The dangers of using Kazaa, Morpheus, Grokster, and other Napster-like peer-to-peer file sharing services. In using such services you "open up your system to a host of security and privacy threats, including viruses, worms, Trojan horses, snooping, data theft, spyware, and more." Apparently, MyDoom was originally... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - PC Magazine -- February 5

The Virtual Activist 2.0   NetAction provides some guidelines and resources to use email and the Web as effective, inexpensive, and efficient tools for organizing, outreach, and advocacy. Technology is a tool that can be used strategically to enhance grassroots organizing and outreach efforts related to political campaigns and public policy... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - NetAction [via Joseph Daisy] -- February 5

Save, Organize And Search Through Your Personal Set Of Web Pages   Furl is a new web browsing tool that lets you save and organize thousands of useful web pages (you know, the ones you want to save for future reference but then can never find again) in a personal "web page filing cabinet". Once saved, you can... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Furl -- February 4

Spooks Turn To Hi-Tech Geography   Imagine being able to pinpoint someone's location anywhere in the world simply by typing a few keywords on your PC. Software allows spooks to pinpoint specific locations. That is what software partly funded by the US military is trying to do. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - BBC News -- February 4

Multiplatform, Multiprotocol, IM And Conferencing Presence   BuddySpace is a powerful collaboration technology built on a strong IM core with four novel twists: (1) it allows optional maps for geographical & office-plan visualizations; (2) it is built on open source Jabber, which makes it interoperable with ICQ, MSN, Yahoo and others; (3) it... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Robin Good [via Joseph Daisy] -- February 4

Access News Articles Without Registering   If you happen to land frequently on article pages that require a registration to be accessed (e.g.: NY Times), a free online service has come to rescue you. Enters BugMeNot an online tool providing you with access codes for most any online resource that requires one.... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 3

Strong Instant Messaging Core Shows Where Enterprise Web Conferencing Is Directed   As instant messaging gets finally the attention of the corporate enterprise, for the key communication benefits it can bring when leveraged appropriately, more companies are announcing new products essentially based on a strong core IM (instant messaging) solution, which can scale up to offer different conferencing... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Kolabora -- February 3

How To Create An RSS Feed Made Simple   Those little orange XML icons are everywhere. RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication," and it's all the rage. The idea is pretty simple. Output some XML to the Web that content aggregators and other sites can consume and display. If you have a normal routine of... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - uber:ASP.Net -- February 3

Create A Custom Digital Typeface Of Your Handwriting   Free (for now) this new online service provides all you need to have your calligraphy become an official digital typeface for both the Mac and the PC. Good handwriting and scanner required. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - [via del.icio.us] -- February 2

Monitor Google AdSense Advertisers   Another little gem for Google AdSense advertising affiliates. AdTractor is a free online service that monitors which Google Ads are being served for any of three possible URLs you indicate. The service interrogates the Google AdSense system and stores the results in a database. Users... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 2

Data Visualization Helps AdSense Affiliates   AdsenseCharts is a free online service which provides many useful statistical visualizations of the data provided by the Google AdSense advertising service to its own affiliates. I, being one of them, find AdSenseCharts very interesting, extremely easy to use, and quite illuminating (as all data visualization... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 2

P2P File Sharing With All Of The Goods   P2P file sharing for Windows users with all of the goods: support for multiple P2P networks (EDonkey2000, Gnutella, BitTorrent and Gnutella2 (G2)), no spyware, easy to use, personalization, multiple skins, and a price that can't be beaten (FREE). Must try. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 1

Email To RSS In Three Easy Steps   The time has come. You can now freely generate an RSS feed for any YahooGroup or similar email discussion or distribution list (Topica, Listbuilder, Sparklist, Lyris, Majordomo IMN, etc.). The process is very simple, it is free, and it may take at most three minutes. (I refer to Yahoogroups... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- February 1

SurfPics   Desktop-based image meta-search engine. Though equipped by a poor interface and some possible spyware SurfPics integrates in one free easy to use simple tool the best image search engines, providing very fast access to the best images available on the Internet, in just a few clicks.... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - 4ComTech -- February 1

Email To RSS Is Here   A new free service allows any company or professional to create an RSS feed by simply sending an email, newsletter or press release to a pre-specified email address. Independent and institutional publishers alike can greatly benefit from using RSS as a parallel distribution channel for much... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 1

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