Robin Good Archive Of Latest News
December 2005

Web Future And New Media Predictions: 2006 And Beyond   2005 is almost over, but looking ahead remains my passion. Here are a few more anticipations and predictions that should be added to my original Web Predictions for 2006 which I wrote over a week ago. Photo credit: Stefano Carboni Here are ten more disruptive and powerful changes... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 31

Video News Integration For Independent Publishers: The Reuters News Video Player   Reuters has made available this week a streaming news video player which can be integrated on any web site or blog. The new Reuters news video player requires no maintenance, no uploading, no software configuration and it is completely free. [NULL] [/NULL] What the Reuters news video player... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 30

Beyond Link-Based Bookmarks And Into Capturing Of Content Bits: Clipmarks   Eric Goldstein, CEO of a new company called Clipmarks, own proposition is that bookmarks as we know them are badly broken. What we really need, he suggests, are not bookmarks but a more evolved and effective way of storing and "clipping" those bits and pieces of useful... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Matthew Guschwan -- December 29

User-Generated Content Is Online Content Publishers Most Promising Future   Content crystal ball-gazers, rejoice: the best is yet to come in 2006 as publishers and technology companies vie for the hearts of publishing-savvy users looking for personal and professional content. Photo credit: Mario A. Magallanes Trejo Investing in users in 2006 will be revolving around four trendy... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment John Blossom - Shore -- December 28

Open-Source Alternatives To Microsoft Windows Operating Systems And Applications: "Just Say No To Microsoft" Book Review   If you are looking for reasons, information, and facts supporting the use of alternative operating systems and application to the standard Microsoft set, this new book by Tony Bove may indeed provide some valuable information. Educational and academic institutions and increasingly governments, in many parts of the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Ben Rothke - Slashdot -- December 27

Mobile Phones Radiation Risks: Are Present Cell Phones Communication Standards Our Best Choice?   Undoubtedly mobile phones and wireless broadband are immensely useful, but there is a persistent question: what are the risks of using these technologies? Photo credit: Rafal Swidzinski and Petr Jancik Many of us asking the "risk" question are - alas - not necessarily informed or even willing to... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Sepp Hasslberger - Health Supreme -- December 26

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 32   Sharewood Picnic is Robin Good's weekly gift to you. It consists of hand-picked goodies discovered in the last seven days, including new web sites, software tools and online resources that can further enable you to become a more effective online independent publisher. Photo credit: Ronen For Christmas 2005,... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good and Kevin C. Borgia -- December 25

Usability Research: Key Findings 2005   The R&D team at HFI, also this year has gone out to summarize and report the key usability findings, news and research data that is then presented at their 2005's Putting Research into Practice seminar. Photo credit: Bo Hansen To put together this usability seminar the HFI R&D... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Dr Eric Schaffer - HFI -- December 24

Anonymous Surfing: What The Benefits And Issues Of Making Yourself Invisible Online?   Until yesterday, when you were researching a competing company you would go search for its marketing materials, you might go look at the ads they have in magazines and check out business information accessible through public databases. If that company was making competing products you would go... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 23

Skype And GoogleTalk Users Can Now Videoconference With Each Other   Today, Santa Cruz Networks launches Festoon Unity, a new feature addition to its Skype and Google Talk plug-in, allowing PC-based Festoon users to seamlessly make voice-over-IP calls and multi-party videoconferences with both Google Talk and Skype users at the same time. ... Link | cat.: Robin Good - Kolabora -- December 23

Contextual Ads: Which One Works Best: AdSense, YPN or Chitika?   Until the Yahoo Publisher Network and the Chitika Mini-Malls did enter the contextual advertising market this year, Google AdSense was the only supplier of text-based ads dynamically matching the content of any content they were placed next to. As many of you already well know, such text-based... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 22

Online Video: Why 2006 Will Be The Year Of Video   Yes, 2006 will be the year of online video. This is what I wrote not more than a week ago here, while attempting to bring in to focus my first set of predictions on the upcoming web and new media future. Video will indeed be a disruptive... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 21

User-Generated Media And Its Future Next To Traditional Publishing   As surely as the birth of jazz music was shunned by many classically trained musicians the rise of user-generated media has gained the scorn of many professional content producers. Photo credit: Daniel Altherr But when you're using pretty much the same tools as any professional producers in a... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment John Blossom - Shore -- December 20

Why Banks Sell Money They Don't Own? Is Seignorage The Secret Money Tree?   Definition: Seigniorage, also spelled seignorage, is the net revenue derived from the issuing of currency. It arises from the difference between the face value of a coin or bank note and the cost of producing and distributing it. Seigniorage is an important source of revenue for... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Marco Della Luna e Antonio Miclavez - Il Consapevole -- December 19

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 31   Sharewood Picnic is my weekly selection of new media gems found along my explorations during the past seven days. Many are new tools that have just been launched and are ready for you to take for a test drive. Photo credit: Leah-Anne Thompson My goal remains to provide... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good and Kevin C. Borgia -- December 18

Newsletter Formatting And The Remove Extra Line Breaks Issue   No matter how many RSS feeds, blogs and news alerts you receive it is likely that to this day you are also a subscriber to multiple email-based newsletters. One of the oldest content distribution vehicles, in existence since before the Web even became a reality, email-based... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 17

Copyright Clampdown Coming To Europe: The EUCD Is Here   I am part of a group of citizens who are concerned about control over digital media. In particular, I am, like others, very worried about proposed laws, regulations and technological systems that will make digital media more expensive, less useful, less diverse and less democratic. Photo... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Cory Doctorow-BoingBoing - Campaign for Digital Rights -- December 16

Ads Inside RSS: Provide More Quality Information Ad Units   "According to a new study, consumers using RSS readers are more likely to click on an ad presented as a stand-alone post than on ads within posts, at 7.99 percent versus 0.85 percent, Mediapost reports. The study, conducted by Pheedo, shows that one ad for every... Link | cat.: Robin Good -- December 16

Integrated Visual Desktop Environments: Why Goowy Is Better Than Glide   Just two weeks ago I have introduced to you Glide Effortless, a web-based desktop environment that integrates typical online services such email and image sharing into one seamless experience. A competitive service, out there since already a few months, has made much less noise about its... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 14

Podcast Hijacking Is Here: What To Do, How To Avoid It   Podjack: (verb) – To create an alternate RSS feed to a podcast without the permission of the podcast’s owner. Photo credit: Carsten Reisinger I am writing this piece for the sake of giving podcasters information on how to protect themselves from similar podjackings. And I’m also going to... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Erik Marcus [via Kevin C. Borgia] - Vegan.com -- December 14

Be Your Own Boss Is The Only Way Up   One of the things I am asked more often when meeting new people online is if Robin Good is my real name and why did I choose to adopt such a unique name. The reasons that drove me to make this choice are the same ones... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 13

New Media Predictions 2006: What Will The Web Future Bring?   If you stop looking for a second at the hundreds of interesting new tools and events happening online, what are the key trends you see? Where among the new emerging online media, should you be looking next when trying to understand where to invest your future energies... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 12

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 30   Sharewood Picnic is my weekly selection of new media gems found along my explorations during the past seven days. Among them precious new online services that have just launched as well as key new tools I had not had space to catch and write about before.... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good and Kevin C. Borgia -- December 11

Sell Your Photos Online: Free Image Directory Spins Off Low-Cost Professional Image Catalog   A new online stock image library service offers for the first time great options for both small business buyers and to would-be pro-photographers wanting to sell their best digital photographs online. Photo credit: Ronen While traditional stock image libraries have a tradition of being very corporate, top-down, targeted... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 10

If You Are Still Buying Music CDs From Mainstream Music Publisher Read This   US music publishers are calling for the imprisonment of owners of websites that contain song lyrics, guitar tabs and musical scores. Music publishers seek stringent punishment for websites disclosing lyrics and the Music Publishers' Association (MPA) says such unlicensed publication is illegal and that closing websites... Link | cat.: Simon Aughton - PC Pro -- December 10

Sing Your Lungs Out On MyVideoKaraoke: New Video Publishing Arcade Makes Grassroots Video Singing Fun For Everyone   Sing your favorite songs on video and share them online! As anticipated a few days ago, I am launching today my online video music station for broadband users only. This new site is my first humble effort at putting into practice some of the grassroots publishing... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 9

Reading Lists: OPML-Based Dynamic Shareable Feeds Lists   As the ocean of information increases, more and more people and organizations will devote their time to filter, aggregate, select, and compile information packages that can best satisfy the needs of their clients niche interests. Photo credit: wynand van niekerk The size and reach of this process... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 8

Content Licensing Strategies In The Age Of Proprietary Mobile Devices   Finding the right strategy for dealing with a plethora of platforms for consuming today's content is no easy task. Photo credit: color Blackberry The ideal digital content platform for publishers is not the latest faddish gizmo but the digital objects that they create to run on these... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment John Blossom - Shore -- December 7

Software Patents, Microsoft Monopoly, Free Software: Free Software Foundation's George Greve Reports   Free software, copyright issues, software patents remain highly important issues to follow and to understand if you are looking into a future where more of the small businesses and professionals will have an opportunity to play in the marketplace with their ideas and inventions. But this may... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 7

AdSense Section Targeting: How To Make Your Google Ads Relevant And Profitable   If you have been disappointed with the results and profits turned up by having integrated Google AdSense ads within your web site or blog, do not despair. Getting AdSense to work is never been an easy trick, unless you fully understood the mechanism governing both the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 6

What Is A Blog? TheWeblogProject And Robert Scoble Help You Find Out   Robert Scoble is one among over 60 (and growing) individuals who has responded to the TheWeblogProject invitation to explain, clarify, story-tell what a blog really is. Watch the clip Photo credit: Robin Good If you have not heard or read about TheweblogProject, the aim of this non-commercial initiative is... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 5

Atmospheric Control May Not Always Mean More Sunshine Tomorrow: What's That HAARP?   Among the non mainstream news that passed by in November there was an official story by Continental Electronics Corp. who proudly announced that it had delivered ahead of schedule 132 ultra-low-noise transmitters to U.S. government contractor BAE Systems to use in the High-Frequency Active Auroral Research... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Chiara Moriconi -- December 5

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 29   Sharewood Picnic is Robin Good's weekly basket of goods, tools and services found in the last week. Including several newly-released resources, these little gems can help you better understand and utilize the independent publishing revolution we are witnessing. Feel free to download, test and try-out any of... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 4

The Sony Rootkit Story: Music CDs Hidden Malicious Software Creates Problems For Users While Destroying Sony's Credibility And Reputation   Though this is not this morning breaking news, the story of the Sony rootkit still surfs many of the top news headlines as it keeps evolving and revealing more of its nasty nature. What Sony did, was to include within commercial music CDs a hidden malicious software... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Cory Doctorow - Boing Boing - Boing Boing -- December 3

Beyond Wireless Broadband, Wi-Fi, Wi-Max, Wi-Bro: XMax Goes The Distance   As I wrote here before, xMax is a new wireless and wireline transmission technology which allows very significant increases in wireless transmission reach and capacity. A month ago tomorrow, a small group of reporters attended the first press demonstration of this revolutionary technology in the swamps... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment xG Technology - xG Technology -- December 2

New Skype v2 Does Video   Today Skype has released a new beta version integrating free video calls. The new Skype version 2 (beta) is now available for download right here. This version is for Windows only. ... Link | cat.: Skype -- December 1

Marketing Communications Future: The Twilight Of Interruption, The Dawn Of Engagement Marketing   The marketing communication landscape has changed more in the past five years than in the past fifty. Photo credit: Robin Good Traditional marketing methods are losing their grip on customers at an alarming rate. Trade shows, trade publications and direct mail deliver a fraction of the ROI... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Alan Moore - SMLXL -- December 1

Beyond Wi-Max: Wi-Bro Coming   For the upcoming Winter Olympics to be held in Turin in February 2006, Telecom Italia and Samsung have signed an agreement to test, for the very first time in Italy, WiBro (Wireless Broadband) technology, now considered to be the most feared enemy of Wi-Max, the last... Link | cat.: Pierluigi Tolardo - Zeus News -- December 1

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