Robin Good Archive Of Latest News
August 2005

Blogs Role In Online Advertising Mix   "...blogs do have a specific role to play in the online advertising mix. Advertisers should look to blogs as a way to organically grow trends by leveraging the role of bloggers as peer influencers. By associating their message with the blog’s image, advertisers can legitimize new... Link | cat.: Jon Gibs - Senior Research Manager - Nielsen//NetRatings -- August 31

Blogger Discovery Day: Elect Five New Blogs For Others To Discover - BlogDay Is Here   Today is BlogDay, the day in which you can learn and discover new and truly valuable bloggers that you don't know about. BlogDay was initiated with the belief that bloggers should have one day which will be dedicated to know other bloggers, from other countries or areas... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment [via Maurizio Goetz] - Marketing Usabile -- August 31

MSN Searches RSS Deeper   Yesterday evening, Brady Forrest from Microsoft Search informed me and the other Search Champs via email that the new MSN Search engine is now capable of searching in full within RSS and Atom feeds. Here is the communication he sent out: "We pushed out two new operators last... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- August 31

Telemarketing Calls To Your Mobile Can Now Charge Your Answer Is A Urban Legend   Tomorrow, September 1, 2005, US cell phone numbers will be released to telemarketing companies and you may start to receive sales calls for which you may be charged. To save yourself from this plague call the following US number from your cell phone: 1-888-382-1222. Your number... Link | cat.: www.snopes.com/politics/business/cell411.asp" target="_blank">[via Robin Berg] -- August 31

VoIP On Mobile Cellphones? JaJah Let's You Talk At Super-Low Rates   If you own a mobile phone capable of accessing the web, and have a need to make international calls at the lowest possible rates, here is some information you may be interested in reading further. The new JAJAH mobile service offers low VoIP rates for... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- August 30

What Is Web 2.0?   Great article on what Web 2.0 really is. If you haven't yet heard of the term, I urge you to get acquainted with this new buzzword and with the future views hidden behind it. If you are a designer, an online publisher or an executive in... read more | cat.: | Link Joshua Porter and Richard MacManus - Digital Web Magazine -- August 30

Key Emerging Technologies Future Outlook Seen Through The Hype Cycle   "The Hype Cycle is a graph that runs up quickly and reaches a peak where the expectations of the market are over-hyped. When it becomes clear that the technology is not all it cracked up to be, the market becomes extremely disillusioned with it and the... Link | cat.: Belinda Anderson - Moneyweb - Gartner -- August 30

Create Your Custom Music Station With Pandora And Start Sharecasting   Can you help me discover more music that I'll like? "Each friend told us their favorite artists and songs, explored the music we suggested, gave us feedback, and we in turn made new suggestions. Everybody started joking that we were now their personal DJs." A new... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- August 29

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 15   This week Robin Good's new media picks selection includes: RSS by email feed forwarding service RSS ad management and tracking service RSS reader focuses on news aggregation Blogs to MP3 audio converter Podcast RSS feed creator from text blog entries Turn any RSS feed into a... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- August 28

Video Camcorders Go Tapeless: Direct Solid State Recording Is The New Mantra   As a budding video-maker I have been waiting for a while to see camcorders adopt new technologies that would allow them to do away with both tapes and other mechanical recording mechanisms. Why? I want maximum portability and image quality, and no matter how good you get with... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- August 27

Video Publishing And Distribution: Veoh (beta) Review   Veoh, a new self-defined Internet Television Peercasting Network, is readying its archiving and video distribution infrastructure for a public launch in the coming months. Veoh will be free of charge for both video producers as well as for viewers – anyone will be able to... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- August 26

Multi-Language: Robin Good Goes International   MasterNewMedia, Robin Good's own mini-network of information sites, makes today one further little step in expanding its reach and accessibility to all those who are searching for news, tools and ideas on how to communicate more effectively with new media technologies while finding innovative ways to... Link | cat.: Robin Good -- August 25

New Open-Source WebConferencing Platform: It Doesn't Wow But It Works!   Today I have some spent some time testing WebHuddle, a passionately homegrown open-source web conferencing and live presentation system available right now online. The brainchild of John McCaughey (of whom I publish a genuine conversation with me as I first explore his new tool - available at... Link | cat.: Robin Good - Kolabora -- August 25

Instant Messaging With Integrated VoIP: Google Talk Is Here   Google has just officially released Google Talk, a new Windows-based multi-protocol instant messaging and VoIP solution which supports open standards like XMPP and transparently interconnects with other popular IM platforms. Google Talk has also strong hooks into its web-based GMail service from which it automatically pre-loads all... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- August 24

Search Engines Future: Personalized Collaborative Shareable Search   Prompted by the business prospect of a coming search market valued at $ 18 billion in the next five years (source: Safa Rashtcy - Piper Jaffray) and following the recent technology announcements in personalized collaborative search made by Yahoo (My Web 2.0) and Google (My Search... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- August 23

P2P Mobile Broadcasting Future Is Called Roadcasting   Imagine being able to broadcast and receive digital information from your Wi-Fi enabled car, cell phone, handheld computer or MP3 player as you move around your environment. Everyone participates in a dynamic, decentralized network of individuals sharing information with anyone within a 30 mile radius.... Link | cat.: Roadcasting.org -- August 22

EU Ruling Silently Imposed Against Popular Preference   "You may have gotten the impression that the European constitution was dead -- that the French had felled it, and the Dutch had pounded a stake through its heart," wrote Daniel Hannan, a Conservative Member of the European Parliament from South East England, in the July... read more | cat.: | Link Daniel Hannan - London Telegraph -- August 22

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 14   New media picks of the week is my weekly basket of tasty new media resources, online tools and new software tools I think are worth your attention. Try for yourself, download, install and learn some pretty interesting things with these great new resources and tools. Photo credit:... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- August 21

Streaming Podcasts Is The Way To Go: Ziepod The Sleek Podcasting Player Is Here   A new, outstandingly designed podcasting player, search tool and aggregator has just launched. Called the Ziepod, it offers unmatched ease of use, features and ergonomics to make it anyone's best Windows candidate as the next podcasting player of choice. The Ziepod is indeed a little jewel of... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- August 20

Commons-Based Peer-Production Ushers Innovative Marketplace   "In 2002, Professor Benkler published a seminal essay with the provocative title "Coase's Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm." In Coase's Penguin Professor Benkler states that for decades we have lived with two major ways in which individuals organize economic production: ... Link | cat.: Irving Wladawsky-Berger -- August 19

Idea Exchange: A Proposal for a Collaborative System   Here is an idea for everyone interested in sharing ideas to change the world! Libertes Philosophica or “the right to think” was a phrase coined by Giordano Bruno, a controversial Italian Renaissance philosopher who challenged the authorities by daring to think beyond the common beliefs... Link | cat.: Mykljonzun -- August 19

RSS Enterprise Syndication Servers And NewsMastering: What's Next?   On the RSS enterprise front there is a lot going on that is not readily apparent yet. A number of companies are readying new products and services which should an order of magnitude better than the RSS newsmastering tools we have seen so far. Also the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- August 18

Best Desktop Search Tools For Your PC   PCWorld lists their preferred free/shareware desktop search tools for the PC, providing reviews, download info and more. This is a good starting list, lacking only Microsoft' own Desktop Search (part of the MSN Search Toolbar) and Chris Pirillo's favourite search tool: Copernic Desktop Search. To find... Link | cat.: PCWorld -- August 18

Protecting RSS Feeds From Commercial Republication   The issue of what is right and best to do when it comes to republish content or even just headlines coming from a public RSS feed is now spreading to the growing number of independent online publishers taking advantage of RSS powerful syndication and real-time news... read more | cat.: | Link Sharon Housley -- August 17

Robin Good Latest News Breaks Top 200 in Feedster   Robin Good Latest News is now listed at position 167 in the Top500 published by Feedster online. For me, as the executive editor of this content, this is probably the greatest reward that could be desired. Even more so, when this popularity shows my content to... Link | cat.: Robin Good -- August 16

New Media Technologies Role in Education: The Academic Commons Critically Examines Classroom Uses   Academic Commons offers a forum for investigating and defining the role that technology can play in liberal arts education. Sponsored by the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College, Academic Commons publishes essays, reviews, interviews, showcases of innovative uses of technology, and vignettes... Link | cat.: [via OLDaily - Stephen Downes] - Academic Commons -- August 16

Interest Rates Cause of Wasteful Consumption?   Interest is steering us towards non-sustainability, argues Jeremy Wakeford, writing for the South African New Economics Network, a group described on their site as an independent network for the creation of a humane, just, sustainable and culturally appropriate economic system in South Africa. Not only does interest... Link | cat.: Sepp Hasslberger -- August 15

The Future of Internet Governance   The United Nations has released its report into how it expects administration of the internet to work in future. The report by the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) follows the outline given by those in charge of the process earlier this week at ICANN's tri-annual conference... Link | cat.: Kieren McCarthy - The Register -- August 15

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 13   New media picks of the week is my weekly basket of tasty resources, tools and services. These are this week little gems that I have run into, have accidentally discovered or been pointed to or have read about in articles, RSS feeds and newsletters I subscribe... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- August 14

Voice Talent For Your Podcasting Show   If you are thinking about making your own podcast show available on the Internet, you may want to consider hiring some quality voice talent to create your show opening and closing audio titles, or more importantly to professionally dub your advertisers and sponsors messages. As much as... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- August 13

Virtual Teams Path To Effective Collaboration Is Not Technology-Based   To make virtual business-based networked team work effectively we spend way too much time and resources focusing on the technologies and software tools which would best retrofit our needs for improved, faster and more efficient communications. We test, compare, review and experiment tons of new tools searching... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- August 12

Virtual Teams Doorway To Effective Collaboration   To make virtual business-based networked team work effectively we spend way too much time and resources focusing on the technologies and software tools which would best retrofit our needs for improved, faster and more efficient communications. We test, compare, review and experiment tons of new tools searching... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- August 12

Remotely Access Your Home TV And Radio Channels From Anywhere With Your Cellphone, PDA Or Laptop   Here is a new technology allowing you to completely enable remote access to all your home-based media resources: from your TV channels, to your video clips, music and photos, any live or recorded media on your home-based PC can now be remotely accessed from anywhere via... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- August 11

RSS News Feeds Now Available From Google   If you hadn't taken seriously my previous post about Google finally moving to fully adopt and support RSS, now you have final proof that the most popular search engine has indeed understood the limitations of supporting Atom feeds only and has finally made available its all... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- August 10

Dial International Skype-based VoIP Calls From Your Mobile Phone   It is now possible to make Internet-based phone calls directly from your mobile phone, allowing great savings on the exorbitant international phone rates applied by most cell phone providers. The new solution, which for now works only on Windows PCs, does not require any special hardware or... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- August 9

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 12   New media picks of the week is my weekly basket of tasty resources, tools and services. These are this week little gems that I have run into, have accidentally discovered or been pointed to or have read about in articles, RSS feeds and newsletters I subscribe... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- August 7

Internet TV Starts From Your Home TV-Set: New Technologies Take Your TV Anywhwere You Are Broadband-Connected   Wouldn't it be great to be able to take your television with you anywhere you want around your home apartment? How about seeing your favorite satellite TV match from your laptop while connected from an Internet cafè on the other side of the world? And since traditional TV... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- August 6

Internet Television First Independent Channel Features Quality Grassroots News And Views   In a locked-down television landscape, here is an outpost of innovation and access for alternative media voices and delivery formats: Internet television, made and delivered in a format that effectively competes with traditional mainstream television channels while offering news and views you dont normally get to... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- August 5

Record Any Skype Call To MP3: Skylook Is Here   Skylook is the new, ultimate Skype add-on, allowing no-fuzz-around recording of any voice call you make into a standard .MP3 file. Skylook perfectly integrates into Windows PCs Microsoft Outlook by adding its own toolbar and mini-set of foolproof options. With an extremely simple setup wizard Skylook... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- August 4

Search Video And TV Content By Keywords Spoken In The Content   Would you like to automatically search live television broadcasts based on key words? How about an immediate email notification of relevant news with video and text of anything matching your keywords of interest or the ability to archive any relevant video segment found? Keyword search of online... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- August 2

How To Think Outside The Frame? The Questioning Of News And Reality: Video Interview With Jon Rappoport   "Inside the frame..and they are living their lives in the frame... Most of them, don't want to look... they don't want to find out if there is anything outside..." About two months ago I have had the pleasure to meet and interview Jon Rappoport, an independent news... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- August 1

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