Robin Good Archive Of Latest News
June 2005

Virtual Fly-Over To Any World Destination: Google Earth   Another new Google release has just made its debut, providing the first public version of the long-anticipated Google geographic search technology, a unique tool bringing together local search with satellite images and maps from all around the world. Google Earth provides a stunning visual, and I... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- June 30

RSS Autoresponders: Pros and Cons   Email marketing has long seen its most glorious days. Spam filters, junk email blockers, and a slew of other privacy and security protection technologies have made it increasingly more difficult to get newsletters, direct-mail-marketing messages and announcements from online publishers to their target readers. Photo credit: Lucretious And while... read more | cat.: | Link Cory Threlfall -- June 29

Online Video Clips Hosting And Web Delivery With Vimeo   Vimeo is another online free video hosting and delivery service dedicated to short high-quality clips. Chris Pirillo mini-clip for TheWeblogProject Originally conceived by Jakob Lodwick, it was recently brought to life by him together with Zach Klein. On Vimeo you can upload just about any video format though not... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- June 28

Google Video Is Here: Upload, Search And Deliver   As just confirmed by Search Engine Watch, Google has made available the playback video component of its video hosting, delivery and distribution service. Still in its very early stages the new service promises to give access to both commercial copyrighted video material as well as to a... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- June 27

P2P Can Cut Banks Out Of The Picture: Ripple   Conceived by Ryan Fugger and quite formally defined by Sylvain Poirier, Ripple is a P2P monetary system based on trust that already exists between people in real-world social networks. By cutting out the institutional middlemen, Ripple is both more community-oriented and more efficient as a means... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Ryan Fugger -- June 27

Skype Killer Offers Free VoIP, SMS and Videoconferencing : JAJAH   I am impressed. JAJAH is a new free software to make free audio and video calls to anyone connected to a PC to the Internet, to SIP-compliant devices and smartphones, as well as to interconnect to standard telephone and mobile users around the world. Better than... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- June 25

RSS Scraper and Feed Generator For Your Web Site: MetaCentric   "Many people visit your Web site once and never return. Like a holiday romance, it's nice while it lasts but a poor return on your Internet investment. RSS news feeds stretch your Web site out over time and help build a long term relationship with the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- June 24

Insight Into Google's Patent: Jill Whalen Reports   You may have already heard or read about Google's latest patent application regarding "information retrieval based on historical data", but if you're like me, you probably didn't bother to read it all. Jill Whalen Patents are not easy to read, that's for sure! I had... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- June 24

The New Media Gatekeepers: Who Has Most Influence Online?   The New Gatekeepers: Who are they? What are they after? Do we need them? Photo credit: James Longwell "The sins of the gatekeepers (editors, really) are now identified: professional. elite. official. sanctioned...The new technology has a potential to change this. What boosters promise about the new media... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Jon Garfunkel -- June 23

Free Video Clip Publishing Online: YouTube   YouTube is a new online service that allows you to publish your video clips online without having to pay for storage space or download bandwidth. YouTube uses folksonomy-enabled tags to let users classify the available contents. A public tag cloud allows anyone to easily find most popular... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- June 23

Custom-Animated Talking-Heads Can Play Cool Host On Your Site   http://www.oddcast.com/Oddcast is a cool and still innovative approach to create, customize and display animated talking-heads on your Web site. These can be put to a great number of good uses, raning from welcoming visitors and explaining what your site is all about to giving specific step-by-step... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- June 23

Support Freedom of Speech: Adopt A Chinese Blogger!   Ever since blogs became popular in China, there have been a number of occasions where some blogs were threatened or shut down by telecommunications company or internet service providers due to their political speech. Photo credit: Ophelia Cherry These incidents not only brought risks to bloggers themselves... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - [via Slashdot] -- June 22

Role Of Critical Thinking In Online Education   Stephen Downes, has just published a links to three new interesting aticles about critical thinking in education. Critical Thinking "is a term used to refer to those kinds of mental activity that are clear, precise, and purposeful. It is typically associated with solving complex real world... read more | cat.: | Link Stephen Downes - OLDaily -- June 21

Honey To The Bee: Hear, Sample, Remix   "Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower, Photo credit: Nicola Gavin Track credit: Boytjie - Hun E 2 The B But it is also the pleasure of the flower... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- June 21

Best Web Presentation Tools: June 2005 Update   To effectively deliver a PowerPoint presentation or screen recording on the Web, the traditional means of converting individual slides to GIF and JPG image files is not effective anymore. It is cumbersome, it takes time, it forces you into a fixed screen resolution, it pushes accepting compromises... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- June 20

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 5   It's a great, beautiful Sunday again and though not an holiday for everyone around the world, it is indeed a day dedicated to the sun and to everything that like our protecting star, shines on our horizon. And with so many shining gems coming on my... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- June 19

Google Wallet Set To Become The New PayPal   According to breaking news reports that have appeared in the last few hours on Reuters and on the Wall Street Journal, Google is likely planning to become your next PayPal. PayPal is the most popular digital payment system available online (over 70 million accounts can send... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- June 19

Pro-Ams: The Rise Of The Amateur Professionals, Prosumers, Passionate Amateurs   As access to powerful and low-cost new media, electronics and digital technologies becomes easier and easier thanks to innovation and lower and lower prices, creating value, products and good content is not anymore the exclusive property of large corporations, or financially equipped teams of investors. Amateurs... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- June 16

Pro-Ams: The Rise Of The Amateur Professionals, Prosumers, Passionate Amateurs   As access to powerful and low-cost new media, electronics and digital technologies becomes easier and easier thanks to innovation and lower and lower prices, creating value, products and good content is not anymore the exclusive property of large corporations, or financially equipped teams of investors. Amateurs... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- June 16

RSS Newsmastering Engines And Syndication Servers Just Around The Corner: Grow Your RSS Content Into A DataBank   Due to the enormous and ever-increasing information flow we are all submitted to, the only way to improve our ability to access and use the information that is really important to us, must take place by scaling up one notch our ability to filter, aggregate and... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- June 15

Bad RSS? Issues And Problems In Feeds Future   Though I am and have been a strong supporter of the adoption of RSS as an effective, user-centered, content delivery and distribution mechanism, I must be frank enough to show some of my concerns as well for this great technology. Photo credit: Kristen Handfield I am not drawing... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- June 14

Foreign Aid Development Assistance: A Great Façade For Business-Making   Over 15 years ago, I took a decision to steer my professional life away from the forces that characterized the commercial world of advertising, radio, television and film I had so passionately been working for until then. I didn't like the personal and intellectual price that needed... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - The Zambian [via Health Supreme] -- June 13

Cooperation Technologies: The Power Of Participation   "If companies can open themselves up to contributions from enthusiastic customers and partners, that should help them create products and services faster, with fewer duds -- and at far lower cost, with far less risk." This is what BusinessWeek writes in a long and well documented essay... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - BusinessWeek -- June 11

Apple To Join Intel Against Microsoft?   Robert X. Cringely explores with fascinating logic the serious possibility that Apple may be joining Intel in an all out battle against Microsoft. Photo credit: Igor Kasalovic This is one true hot topic for anyone interested in the future of personal computing and one that could drastically change... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robert X Cringely - PBS -- June 10

Becoming Independent: Possible Roads For Musicians And Videomakers   Given the amount of affordable new media tools available today it is no surprise to hear how many would-be musicians and video- film-makers are working at trying to break in through the system while making an impact. But is this the best way to go? Scott Singer, musician,... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- June 10

Digital TV At BroadBand Week: Robin Reports   Here is my brief reporting and update from Broadband Week, a week-long event that has dedicated two full days to the issues of Digital Televisions. I am leaving with positive excitement about what I have seen and heard so far. The event program, developed by digital communication and... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- June 8

Big Media Overlooks Internet Television? BroadBand Week Reporting   I am just out of my presentation panel at Broadband Week in Milan, and I am leaving with positive excitement about what I have seen and heard. The event program, developed by digital communication and online marketing expert Maurizio Goetz, brought together the two key players of... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- June 8

Peer-to-Peer Internet Television: Cybersky-TV   The medium that in itself has probably had the major impact on cultural life in the past 50 years, television, is about to be deeply transformed. From a medium that has been driven from its inception by mass production and distribution economics, we are witnessing a transformation... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- June 6

Is IPTV The Future Of Internet Television?   What is the difference between IPTV, the Internet Protocol-based TV paradigm heralded by major telecom providers and large media groups (Microsoft included) and the Internet Television painted by the Long Tail phenomenon, Ourmedia, the Internet Archive, Brightcove, and the availability of amazing new technology opportunities such... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- June 4

IPTV vs. Internet Television: Key Differences   What is the difference between IPTV, the Internet Protocol-based TV paradigm heralded by major telecom providers and large media groups (Microsoft included) and the Internet Television painted by the Long Tail phenomenon, Ourmedia, the Internet Archive, Brightcove, and the availability of amazing new technology opportunities such... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- June 4

Collaborative Document Review Online: PleaseReview   If your work consists of collaboratively reviewing and editing documents with a distributed team of colleagues, a new online service may make your life a lot easier and your final work more professional, for a very reasonable cost. Photo credit: Ivan Soares Ferrer I myself, have been frequently... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- June 2

How To Write Great Web Titles   Writing truly effective content titles for the Web is a difficult and challenging skill. Photo credit: Maslov Yuri Few are good at this, and the ones that have learned what it takes to do this job right, keep most of their tactics for themselves. Writing great titles and... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- June 1

How To Write Great Titles And Headlines For The Web   Writing truly effective Web titles and headlines is a difficult and challenging skill. Photo credit: Maslov Yuri Few are good at this, and the ones that have learned what it takes to do this job right, keep most of their tactics for themselves. Writing great headlines for the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- June 1

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