Robin Good Archive Of Latest News
December 2004

Free Fall: Internet Explorer Has Now Lost 30% Of The Browser Market   By December 2005 or before, as I have previously anticipated, Internet Explorer will not be anymore the browser of choice for the majority of Internet users. IE and Outlook free fall Today, according to my own traffic statistics based on a sample of over 600,000 visitors from... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 31

Skype Ideal Feature Set: Customers Vote   Skype is an increasingly popular real-time communication tool, allowing users on any Windows PC to easily call each other, entertain high-quality voice conversations without ever having to hear a dial tone or worry about the cost of their long distance exchange. Its use its pretty straightforward making... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Kolabora Latest News -- December 30

Bad SEO: Marqui Has The Reference   Today, as part of the Marqui paid-blogger program, I have received a pointer to a SEO white paper. The 14-page report, that Marqui has apparently commissioned to Anvil (a SEO company itself), is available for access by anyone, albeit behind a short but still annoying registration... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 30

Google Sponsored Links   Want to know who are the paying Google AdWords advertisers connected to any keyword/keyphrase? Try Google Sponsored Links! By typing any keyword/keyphrase Google Sponsored Links will spit out a clear list of text-only ads from all Google advertisers that have paid to be displayed when they keyword... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 29

How To Create Topic-Specific Meta Search Engine Gateways: Gigablast Custom Topic Search   Here is a great opportunity to provide added value to any site by extending its editorial breadth to its ability select, filter and bring together pre-qualified and valuable information from other endorsed content sources. Gigablast's Matt Wells Select, filter, aggregate, distribute. This is the theme that will play... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 29

Publisher-Driven Advertising Provides A Win-Win Opportunity To Advertisers And Publishers   "Can we create an advertising model that has all the benefits of paid search and at the same time values the relationship between publisher and audience?" Photo credit: Daniel V. Technology Review carries another great article covering this time the fascinating future of publisher-driven ad-selection I have... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment John Battelle - Technology Review -- December 28

Google vs. Microsoft: The Risks Of A Unified Search Industry Leadership   In a highly informative nine-page report published today by Technology Review and entitled "What’s Next for Google", technology writer Charles H. Ferguson reports about the likely strategies, possible outcomes and far-reaching risks that the impending battle between Microsoft and Google for search dominance may bring about. He... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Charles H. Ferguson - Technology Review -- December 27

Content Publishing Abilities: Marqui CMS Review - Part III   Marqui is an online-based content management system. I am on paid assignment to review and analyze their technology and this is my third article covering it. In my introductory article I have set out the basic requirements that a Web-enabled organization would likely define when needing to... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 27

Where To Submit RSS Feeds To Get More Exposure, Visibility And Reach: The RSSTop55 Goes One-O-One!   Just this evening, the RSSTop55, my directory of RSS search engines and directories where to submit your feeds, has added its 101st resource. screenshot from the RSSTop55 The RSSTop55 keeps growing, and the number of good news on this front are not going to end up here. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 26

How To Record Audio Interviews Online: SkypeCast vs. iVocalize   Online audio conversations, one-to-one interviews, over-the-phone recordings are all the rage now that a large number Internet users can tap into broadband. With a significant increase in Internet speed and amount of data that can be rapidly transferred, downloading a multi-megabyte audio file is not something... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Kolabora -- December 25

At The Mercy Of The Music Industry: Microsoft Secure WMA Files Make Music CDs Unusable   Slashdot reports: "DRM, digital rights management, is quite possibly the holy grail of the music and movie industry, allowing them to control exactly how DRM protected content is used, distributed and above all can be tracked right down to the individual end user. Photo credit: Dore Reyniss... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - [via Slashdot] -- December 24

Online Visual Search Of Any Catalogue Or Database: Omniscope Opens New Horizons To Business   Iokio Omniscope is a desktop tool that allows direct visualization of database/spreadsheet data while providing powerful filter/search capabilities. Omniscope is a great new tool to publish, visually explore and interactively search through complex datasets online. click here to enlarge Omniscope turns your data into interactive visualizations that can... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 23

Web-based Personal Content Management And Publishing System Integrates Mobile Posting And Podcasting Support: iUpload Personal Publisher   iUpload has just released the beta version of its new online personal publishing system iUplog. Half personal CMS, half blog, the iUpload solution brings together some of the best features found in the top mainstream solutions from Blogger, Movable Type, Typepad and MSN Spaces. The iUplog Personal... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 23

Marketing, Publishing And RSS Tracking: Rok Hrastnik's Gets His RSS Guide Ready   Had a great, interesting conversation with Rok Hrastnik of MarketingStudies.net, who is about to release his major research work on RSS. Rok Hrastnik There is nothing like this I have seen before. This is a pretty monumental guide to RSS/Atom newsfeeds and their effective use for online... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 22

Making Music Through Online Collaboration: MyVirtualBand.com   "Do you have a killer guitar riff but can't sing to save your life? Do you dream of playing in a band but can't find the time? If so, this is the place for you. MyVirtualBand.com is on a mission to bring together "virtual bands" comprised of... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 21

Content Management Abilities: Marqui CMS Review - Part II   Marqui is an online-based content management system. I am on paid assignment to review and analyze their technology and this is my second article covering it. If you have not yet heard about Marqui here is what David Strom, renowned IT expert and editor of The Web... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 21

ThRSSeaded Discussions Online: QuickTopic Adds RSS   One of my favourite asynchronous discussion services, QuickTopic, has just added RSS to its already extremely useful set of functions. RSS feed generation allows you to follow QuickTopic comments and input from other contributors directly into your RSS reader/aggregator while allowing much greater exposure surface and the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - [via Steve Yost - QuickTopic] -- December 20

Web Conferencing: Please Pay Attention   Whether you're participating in an online meeting, or physically sitting around a meeting table with colleagues, how often does your attention slip? For how long? What else do you think about and do? What makes you 're-surface' and start to pay attention and be involved? According to... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 20

Online Collaboration Future, Identity Management And The I-Names Project   How can online collaboration tools be improved? What do we need to do to leverage all of the potential new abilities we have created with these new technologies? Which are the ways in which we can start understanding where the improvements should be? Eugene Eric Kim Together... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Kolabora -- December 19

Cost-Effective P2P Distribution Of Rich Media Files: Prodigem The Content Storage And Distribution System   Here is another great new entry in the independent publisher resource kit: Prodigem. In their official Web pages they describe Prodigem as a peer-to-peer hosting service and content management system. In simpler words this is really a great new way to host and very efficiently... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 18

Categorization Is Good: But It Should Be Driven By Language Users, Not By Information Librarians   Edd Dumbill reacts passionately to critics of grassroots-driven ontology creation (a representation of terms and their interrelationships) creation such as the Semantic Web as promoted by Tim Berners-Lee. He writes: Photo credit: Annette Gulick "Both Shirky and Udell seem to be pretty much convinced the Semantic Web... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Edd Dumbill - XML.com -- December 17

Beyond BitTorrent - Swarming-Based Content Delivery: SwarmStreaming   When it comes to distribute very large audio or video files nothing has been able to surpass so far the efficiency of BitTorrent streams. Client-server content-delivery BitTorrent has been able to prove to the many who have tried it out the effective value of swarming-based content delivery... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- December 17

Learn How To Be A Digital DJ   CNet is offering a new course for everyone who wants to learn or update his fundamental digital audio skills. In five lessons, the technology publisher who has assigned the delivery of this course to digital music expert Andrew Webster, will put in the condition to copy... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- December 16

Offline Search Tools: Best CD-ROM And DVD Indexers   Searching off-line is a highly in demand feature when you need to distribute your Web site or online document library on a CD-ROM disc. Photo credit: Tomasz Kowalczyk The technology utilized by standard Web sites cannot be easily transferred to off-line media like CD-ROMs because it is based... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 16

Top Computer Viruses And Spam Originators In 2004   In a recently published report, Sophos, one of the world's leading anti-virus and anti-spam firms, confirmed what we had all expected - computer virus writers have become more inventive in 2004 and their viruses more destructive. Photo credit: Judi Seiber The report reveals that the Netsky-P worm, which... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Sophos Inc -- December 15

Online Audio Conversations: The Channel With A Heart   What is so great about radio and audio communications, versus the written ones, is that you can actually hear the "true" voice of the people involved. While it may take longer to listen to a radio interview or to a so-called podcast (Internet on-demand commcasting) rather... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 15

Online Communication And Collaboration: Teenagers Show The Future   For a glimpse into the future for online collaboration tools, whether in the office or in everyday life, one only has to look at how teenagers are using such tools as instant messaging (IM) and mobile phone based text messaging services (SMS) today. As today’s teenagers... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Forbes.com -- December 14

Local Search Gets Hot: Microsoft Releases The MSN Desktop Search Suite   Though I can confirm my opinion that Microsoft has no ability to support communications with the very technologies it creates and promotes, I am genuinely happy to showcase some interesting grassroots reporting work covering the latest announcement from Microsoft: The MSN Desktop Search. Microsoft has just announced... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 13

How Microsoft Could Beat Google At Its Own Game: Search   If you hadn't noticed yet, the search engine war is heating up again and probably like we have never seen before. Photo credit: Andy See First Yahoo and now Microsoft, together with Amazon A9, Ask Jeeves and a growing number of smaller dedicated players like Mamma/Copernic or... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 13

A CMS For The Web-Enabled Organization: Marqui CMS Review - Part I Requirements   I have started exploring the Marqui CMS and have gotten some initial first impressions. As I have more than ten articles planned for the coverage for this paid assignment from Marqui, I have indeed all of the time, resources and space to do a thorough, in-depth... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 13

Learning Objects, Metadata, Blogs And RSS: The Future Of Online Education According To Stephen Downes   Researcher, educational technologists, instructional designer, writer, reporter, information architect, trends watcher, lecturer, public speaker, software developer, system analyst, distance trainer, philosophy professor, critical thinker, activist, change agent, futurist. If you don't know Stephen Downes it is about time you do. I went out to interview him online... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 12

Find Out The Most Popular Keywords And Keyphrases: Google Suggest   As you type into the search box, Google Suggest guesses what you're typing and offers suggestions in real time. This is similar to Google's "Did you mean?" feature that offers alternative spellings for your query after you search, except that this new feature now works in... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 11

How To Publish Your Existing Web Site Content To RSS?   Where are the automatic HTML to RSS conversion services? I can’t believe it. I’m writing a book on RSS feeds, and as a result, I’m doing a lot of research on RSS. The book will be called Syndicating Web Sites with RSS Feeds For Dummies and it’s for... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Ellen Finkelstein -- December 11

From PowerPoint To Rich-Media Showcase: Articulate Presenter Does It   If you have been looking for a tool that can enable the creation of effective rich-media presentations, while providing a smooth and satisfying user experience I strongly suggest you give a good look at Articulate Presenter. Articulate Presenter is a powerful PowerPoint to Flash conversion tool that... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 10

The Universal Translation Dictionary: FDicts   Slashdot reports today that FDicts, "the all free dictionaries project focuses on maintaining free dictionaries (now more than 90 with more than 3,300,000 translations)." Photo credit: Andrés Giordano FDicts is short for Free DICTionarieS and what it has achieved is the aggregation in one online resource of a... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - [via Slashdot] -- December 10

OD Principles: The Future Knowledge Organisation   If you ask around or try to pin it down too rapidly it may elude you: Knowledge Management is still a discipline that has been hyped and promoted as the next revolutionary challenge in how organizations could better manage their own internal explicit and non-explicit know-how.... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 9

The World-Wide Video Conferencing Event: The MegaConference Is On   In less than thirty minutes over 370 videoconferencing endpoints will be connecting together for the largest online video-based event of the year: The MegaConference. The event brings together researchers, academicians, educators and technology experts from around the world while utilizing different videoconferencing technologies. ... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- December 9

Internet Accelerator May Read Your Credit Card Numbers   IMesh is a popular file-sharing application that has recently started to bundle a piece of software inside its P2P tool called Marketscore. Marketscore is a privacy nightmare: What this program does is akin to monitoring each and every possible activity you carry out on your computer.... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Wired -- December 8

Online Privacy: What's Your Price?   According to an article entitled "Spyware on My Machine? So What?" in Wired News on December 6, not everyone is as worried about spyware as we might think. It appears that some people's online privacy is for sale, or is at least for short-term rent. Perhaps it's... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Wired News - [via Slashdot] -- December 8

Online Ads: The Good And The Bad   "You people should be ashamed of yourself! I did not ask to have 3 pop ups come across my screen when I visit you. I do not visit singles sites, and I don't want to add 4 inches to my penis. As a matter of fact,... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Jakob Nielsen - Alertbox -- December 7

How To Use Blogs For Direct Marketing   Will bloggers ever be able to make a living from blogging? This is a question that is almost as old as blogging itself and the Blogosphere's self-elected elite continues to debate whether blogging 'should' or 'could' provide long-term sustainable revenues for their owners' efforts. Photo credit: Joe... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - DM News -- December 7

Blog Paid Assignment: What's The Difference?   If Cluetrain says that the market is a conversation, how are your existing advertising models facilitating this exchange? Are banner ads a conversation? When a company gives a publisher a consistent amount of money for an advertising campaign, how is it likely, from your experience and opinion... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- December 6

New Media Journalism Ethics And The Marqui Blog Paid Assignment   I am on a paid assignment for Marqui. I have chosen and applied to this paid assignment opportunity because I am specifically interested in cost-effective solutions that can help medium to large-sized international organizations a) migrate from legacy content management systems to new agile platforms that... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 6

Clickbots: Is Click Fraud The Biggest Threat To Independent Publishers' Future?   According to a CNN news report, George Reyes, Google's Chief Financial Officer (CFO), speaking at an investor conference on December 1 2004, said that the growing abuse of the company's lucrative sponsored ad-search program by 'click fraud' was jeopardizing its business. "I think something has to be... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - CNN Money -- December 6

Want To Be A Librarian? Got To Know RSS!   Chris Pirillo just sent me an instant message pointing to a short post he had just made about a TV movie in which characters talk about RSS. He wrote: "The main character, Flynn, played by Noah Wyle, is interviewing for a job as “The Librarian.” When asked... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Chris Pirillo -- December 6

The Death Of The Home Page: News Aggregators And The Control Of Content   News Aggregators, also known as Newsreaders or RSS Readers are becoming extremely popular with news junkies for three main reasons - they perform a really useful task, they're typically very easy to use and in most cases, are free. Photo credit: Lynne Lancaster So, what's the catch?... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Digital Web Magazine -- December 5

Microsoft Still Smoking POTS?   Nonetheless the leadership role it has and the abundant technology solutions it markets and proudly promotes, Microsoft is still in a stone age culture when it comes to real-time communications. Nonetheless the highly acclaimed acquisition of Placeware technology and its heavy entry into the conferencing market with... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Kolabora -- December 4

Academic And Scholarly Search Engines Mini-Guide   Marcus P.Zillman has released a new interesting annotated mini-guide focusing on "Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources". This 32-page PDF brings together over 150 of the most interesting resources dedicated to academic research and online bibliographic information. For each resource listed there is a one paragraph-long... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 4

GUI Bible: Application Interface Design Fundamentals For Software Developers   As tools to design and create new software and Web applications become easier to use and cheaper to buy, a new army of developers and software engineering is ushering a tidal wave of more complex tools, difficult web interfaces and applications with great ideas behind them... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 4

Double-U-Eye-Kay-Eye WIKI Radio: Who's Calling?   This wiki radio thing has been playing on my PC for over two weeks now and anytime I open up my multi-tabbed Avant Browser bringing me back to the last 36 Web pages I am working on, I can hear the rock guitar intro of the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 3

BlogoTrack Yourself: Who Is Talking About Me On The Web Today?   Roland Tanglao has done it again. Thanks to the excellent free services provided by PubSub, Roland has taken the time to spell out for the novice and the expert alike how to track your name, URL and related keywords. Roland gives a very accurate and reliable list of... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 3

Microsoft Gets Into Blogs: MSN Spaces   Microsoft has just launched an online blogging service called MSN Spaces. The MSN Spaces online service is in Beta and it is completely free. MSN Spaces allows the creation of a blog and integrates in it some interesting advanced features, including: ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 2

The Independent Online News Clearinghouse : WikiNews Gets Ready For Testing   As originally reported by Robin Good on October 26, 2004 in his article The News According To Us: WikiNews, Wikinews is a project which, if successful, will see individual newsmakers create a world-wide distributed independent news clearinghouse. "Built upon the open collaborative wiki-model it allows maximum abilities... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 2

Research, Organize And Publish Bookmarks And RSS Feeds: wURLdBook, Personal Intelligence   Here in Sharewood I am notoriously pretty suspicious when it comes to press releases. Rather than trusting the typical media hype, I personally take the time to test and explore new tools until I genuinely feel I have a good feel for their strengths and weaknesses.... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 1

Cost-Effective Video Conferencing: What's Out There?   Once again, a genuine question from a user is the spark that gives both the opportunity and the motivation to share some good and up-to-date information. As it is the case more and more often, people have finally awoken to the idea that both voice and... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Kolabora -- December 1

List of Archives

 

	Understanding comes from exploration

Home | Subscribe | RSS Feeds | Site map | Syndicate
Consulting | Publications
About | Privacy | Contact