Robin Good Archive Of Latest News
April 2005

Real-Time Sharing Of Microsoft Office Documents And Applications: Instacoll vs. Conferral   Two new, very cost-effective, real-time collaboration tools open up new ways to share and present Microsoft Office documents on the Web. The first, Instacoll, fully integrates with your Office tools and provides an easy and immediate approach to PowerPoint share presentations, Excel spreadsheets, Word documents, without needing... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- April 30

Future PageRank Helps Reputation And Trustworthiness Shine Over Artificially Inflated Search Results: Google TrustRank   In March 2005, Google registered the trademark 'TrustRank' with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). What might this tell us about Google's forthcoming initiatives and how might this trademark's application, and its potential functionality, fit alongside the existing Google 'PageRank' feature? Photo credit: Diego Sapriza PageRank (PR)... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - [via SearchEngineWatch] -- April 29

Good Games Make Business Training An Effective Learning Approach   Companies in the U.S. spend about $60 billion a year on training their employees, but there's a good chance much of that is wasted. The reason: most training sessions are just too dull. Photo credit: Sean Okihiro A recent article in the Technology Section of the The Wall... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - The Wall Street Journal Online -- April 29

How Malicious Software Can Infect Your Computer When Searching Online   Be very, very careful when typing "www.google.com" into your browser's address window. If you inadvertently type (do not do this) "www.googkle.com", your computer will be infested with Trojan droppers, downloaders, backdoors and spyware, and an unsuspecting user only has to visit the page to be at... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - F-Secure -- April 28

RAW Image Files May Be The Best Digital Archiving File Format Once Manufacturers Start Documenting It: OpenRaw Comes To The Rescue   Most camera manufacturers use a proprietary file format to store the 'raw' data from their digital cameras. In the short history of digital photography, manufacturers have dropped support for asset management applications, abandoned settings from older RAW processor versions and changed the methods of storing basic... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - [via Slashdot] -- April 26

Promote And Market Independent Music Online: Indy   Indy is a music discovery tool. Its goal is to give independent (indy) musicians (those not signed to a record label) a great new way to promote their music and to create a whole new way for people to discover music that they'll love. Photo credit:... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- April 22

The Online Vision For Independent Movie Production And Distribution   "In general, filmmakers have been very slow to effectively use the web. The main problem is that we don't think of the web as an integral part of the filmmaking process. Today, a filmmaker might have a website, a Quicktime trailer of the film, some press... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- April 19

Open Source Desktop Television Software Will Let Anyone Webcast Video At Virtually No Cost   The sourcecode for a ground-breaking project has just been released by the Participatory Culture Foundation (PCF). The software, currently under development and due to be released in June, will enable anyone to broadcast full-screen video to thousands or millions of people at virtually no cost. Photo credit:... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- April 18

Podcasting And Vodcasting In Higher Education: How Disruptive Will They Be?   Although Podcasting and, more recently, Vodcasting (or video-casting) have taken the online world by storm, with geeks and their like adopting these new RSS 2.0-based digital content broadcasting and distribution technologies with huge enthusiasm, their impact outside of geek-dom has, so far, been quite limited. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Peter Meng -- April 16

Anonymous Internet Browsing Can Increase Privacy Protection: The Tor Network   If you're concerned about your online privacy and object to having spyware and adware installed on your computer without your permission, then you've probably already installed an anti-spyware program. You now feel that you can rest easy, safe in the knowledge that what you do and... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- April 15

Digital AZT: Is The Public Health System AIDS Cure The Best Approach To Secure The Internet From Malicious Software?   I was recently struck by the title of a short post pointing to what appeared to be security article entitled "A Public Health Approach to Preventing Malware Propagation" published by Technology Review. Photo credit: Nick Winchester The article is in fact only a short pointer to the master... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- April 14

Direct Film Distribution Is The Future Of The Online Digital Movie Marketplace   As television, radio and traditional newspapers, loose increasingly larger portions of their audiences to new media technologies, home theatre, DVD distribution and the Internet, the world will again let everyone see what a veil was placed over everyone's eyes. ... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- April 13

Direct Film Distribution Is The Future Of The Online Digital Movie Marketplace   If you are a press journalist covering the Internet, or a passionate independent film-maker hoping to make your next video get some festival awards to finally get you noticed by the "big" guys, I have something that will interest both of you: ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- April 13

A Private Radio Station For Every Band: Mercora 3   I have been paying close attention to Mercora, the new private personal radio network in which anyone can be a radio station for over a couple of months now, and nonetheless the many improvements that still need to be made to make this a killer app,... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- April 11

How To Blog Anonymously   Blogs are a direct Web publishing tool that most any non-technical person can use to write and report online. What you do with this capability is just too vast to be categorized, judged and evaluated under one generic umbrella. One use, often unpopular of blogs is the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- April 9

Future Strategy For Online Newspapers Salvation: Theme-up, Loose Control, Redefine Mission   For the last 10 years, the single most important problem facing nearly every newspaper out there is an unstoppable decrease in circulation. Newspapers have desperately tried to change their physical look and feel, by falling prey to the "trendy" tabloid physical format - but for a... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Mikkel Larsen - Enough! -- April 8

Blogger's Reach And Popularity Indicators: What To Look For   Becoming a reference source of information, once an impossible task for an individual, is now within the reach of anyone. With enough wit, perseverance and communication skills anyone can use the Internet as the key vehicle to realize this ambitious challenge. Photo credit: Alana Smith By using... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- April 6

How To Measure A Blogger's Popularity And Reach: The Big Jump   Becoming a reference source of information, once an impossible task for an individual, is now within the reach of anyone. With enough wit, perseverance and communication skills anyone can use the Internet as the key vehicle to realize this ambitious challenge. Photo credit: Alana Smith By using... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- April 6

Google's Bird's-Eye View: See Before You Go   Have you ever wanted to see a place before you actually went there? A far-away house? A shopping-mall? A stadium? If you live in the US, now you can. Google has just incorporated the amazing Keyhole satellite visualization technology into Google Maps and Google Local. Now, when... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- April 5

Cross-Platform, Videoconferencing-Enabled, Standards-Compliant: The New Skype Is Called Ineen   With Ineen, the first fully-featured open-standards compliant audio and videoconferencing desktop tool is here. Available for both Mac and PC users, Ineen allows nested conferences allowing unlimited number of people to join in real-time and talk. Ineen is another P2P real-time communication jewel integrating all of the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - [via Alessandro Perilli] -- April 2

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