Robin Good Archive Of Latest News
March 2005

The Value Of Niche, Highly Targeted Links   In their frenzy to build links to curry favor with the engines, web site owners miss a far more important audience using topical tools. Most people will tell you that links from Yahoo and DMOZ to your site are vital, and to a certain extent I... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Eric Ward -- March 29

Turn Your PC Into A Video Streaming Server: Olivelink   If Ourmedia still doesn't accept your file or doesn't respond to your support requests, it doesn't mean that it ain't good, it means only that they are really working hard at it (I haven't been able to upload a standard Flash file with their Ourmedia Publisher... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- March 28

Free Video Calls To Any PC Soon To Become Mainstream: Best Free Options And The Newest Kid On The Block, KwalityTel   That we are about to see an increasing number of Skype-like technologies enter the market, each one providing easy over IP audio and video capabilities while integrating more advanced functions and controls it is only a matter of time. The good news is that most of these... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- March 27

How Grassroots Low-Cost Conferencing Solutions Can Make My Event Look As Good As On WebEx: Live Presentation Today About Small-Scale, Independent Online Publishing   In a few hours I will be the presenter of a live event hosted by an interesting community of people: Talking Communities. Though I have hardly had the opportunity to yet seriously engage with them, I have long followed some of their interesting initiatives, technology... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- March 23

Internet Security Is Doomed Unless We Review Its Key Foundations And Architecture: US Experts And Mainstream News Report   It seems that everyone is so completely numbed by Microsoft smooth and systematic release of security patches, that the new mantra for feeling OK when it comes to Internet security is simply: "SP2 and automatic updates, with a sprinkle of good anti-virus, anti-spyware and a slice... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- March 21

Free Phone Calling To Your PC: Teleo Better Better Than SkypeIN   After Skype has recently made the headlines with its release of the SkypeIn service, which allows Skype users on any computer platform to receive phone calls from any standard telephone line, a new tool challenges this latest feature, with an impressive PC-based offering where, those who... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- March 17

Free Open Access To Public Domain And Publicly Financed Artworks Is Every Citizen's Right: Let's Download Them! Italy's Creative Commons Shows The Way   If we pay our state to create public works like art, music, architecture, research, is it right that these creations are then exploited for commercial uses by a restricted few? If through the taxes that I and you pay, the government decides to commission an art... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- March 16

Receive Calls From Standard Telephones On Your Computer: SkypeIn Is Here!   Just a few minutes ago I finished testing some of the new great features that the newest Skype version has integrated. First among them is the ability to receive voice calls from standard telephones. Photo credit: Allan Browne The new feature, called SkypeIn opens up a new range... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- March 15

The RSS NewsMaster's Toolkit Is Out   I have finally released online the newest edition of the RSS NewsMaster Toolkit. This is a 60-plus pages mini-guide providing full guidance to the production process required to create automatically aggregated vertical news feeds, and topic-specific information sites by leveraging the power of RSS. This new third edition... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- March 12

Malware Removal Free Tool: More Good Help From Microsoft   If you run Microsoft's Windows XP, Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003 operating systems on your PC and have enabled the 'Automatic Update' function, you may have recently noticed, amongst the deluge of alerts, a notice from Microsoft recommending that you make use of its new... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- March 11

Online Collaboration: Microsoft Future Strategy and The Bioteaming Manifesto   If you have not been able to attend Bill Gates live announcement of Microsoft future strategy delivered yesterday morning in San Francisco, I suggest you go give a look and ear to what he had to say (text transcript and PowerPoint available too). Bill Gates yesterday morning... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- March 9

RSS Content Delivery Options: Enclosures   RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is a new way to broadcast corporate news and structured information. Photo credit:Canadian Museum of Nature RSS offers a quick, easy corporate communication channel. The RSS contents are published as a feed and the feed's content keep customers, partners and journalists abreast... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Sharon Housley -- March 9

Identity Theft Is Rampant: Good Advice On How To Prevent It   About three months before I moved with my family into our new home last Fall, I called our national mail company to make sure I filed the proper online forms to get our mail forwarded to our new address. The lady on the phone was really... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- March 8

Delivering Software Updates By RSS: Appcasting Jumps Onto The RSS Wave   When you fire up one of your online software tools and straightaway get a message notifying you that there's a new version available for immediate download, are you grateful for the message or irritated by the distraction? Do you download and install the latest version there and... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Fraser Speirs -- March 7

Building Effective Virtual Teams: Online Event Coming Up   As enterprises gradually decentralize their operations and new networked business ecosystems start to find their way into profitable niche marketplaces, virtual, networked business teams gradually emerge as the wave of the future. Photo credit : Andres Ojeda To be successful, virtual networked business teams need a strategic... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Kolabora -- March 5

How To Create News Radars: Rok Gets The Good' Steps   I just finished listening to Rok Hrastnik's highly recommended interview with Robin about The RSS NewsMaster's Toolkit. The third edition of Robin's e-book is expected to be released within a week from now and describes the exact steps that you need to follow if you want... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- March 4

Live TV Looks Good On My PC: Rosso Alice   Internet television: ready for prime time? Are telcos-recycled-as IPTV-providers capable of providing a valuable and positively memorable user experience? This past Sunday I have been able, for the first time, to see a live sport event in the full glory of my 15.4-inch laptop wide-screen while connected... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- March 3

Extreme Bookmarking - Selection From 50 Del.icio.us Add-Ons: WeTaste   A hot technology trend of 2004 was social bookmarking, with the hype primarily circling around del.icio.us, Furl and Spurl. Last week I dug a little into the technical background of del.icio.us and was astounded at the enormous amount of tools available for it at this time.... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- March 3

Internet Explorer Free Fall Continues? It Only Depends Where You Look   Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) browser, as predicted at the end of December last year, continues on its downtrack in relation to its upstart competitors. In a recent ZDNet News article entitled "Growth rate slips for Firefox usage", it's revealed that two recent tracking surveys, one from OneStat... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- March 2

Interaction Design Meets Online Real Estate   As software applications are increasingly weaved into the Web and within other Internet-aware applications, information and application controls encounter a multitude of opportunities to mesh intelligently into each other. Photo credit: loveu4ever Here are some examples:Alerts RSS news aggregation Route finding (interactive maps) Visual searching Music mixers Media players P2P file sharing Collaboration spaces In... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Craig Marion -- March 1

Marqui Final Shot   So, please go ahead...turn on your tape recorders, charge your flash cameras and start shooting. The interview is on: Three months ago Robin embarked on an experimental journey: together with several other bloggers he accepted a paid invitation to write often, openly and uncensored about the Marqui... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- March 1

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