Robin Good Archive Of Latest News
March 2006

Copy Structured Data Between Web Sites Through RSS: Ray's Live Clipboard Is Next   A clipboard to "copy and paste" for XML-based structured data is Ray Ozzie, Microsoft CTO, latest idea and from a user viewpoint, a most promising one indeed.. Information that has been organised to allow identification and separation of the context of the information from its content it... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- March 31

Video Advertising Marketplace Bets On User Contributions: Revver   Video advertising gives a new spin to how user-generated content and a distributed advertising model can enable exposure and profits for all parties involved. Watch, Upload, Make Money. This is the roaring mantra for newly launched Revver.com, an online video clips clearinghouse that allows anyone to submit,... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - [via PaidContent.org] -- March 30

Group Collaboration And Peer Messaging Services Keep Everyone In The Loop: Parlano   Go on to most any trading floor in the securities industry and you'll find not only the buzz of people chatting about the latest market trends and research but as well the tapping of keys as those same people participate in online discussions with their colleagues... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment John Blossom - Shore -- March 29

Digital Content And Public Citizen Access: Digital Freedoms - A Manifesto From The Roots   Digital content is not only the latest hip song or your newly released blockbuster movie in digital format. Digital content, whether your government has helped you realize this or not, is also the vast, immense amount of historical, artistic and cultural works that is gradually findings... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good and the people of the web - Manifesto delle Libertà Digitali -- March 28

First Online Payment System To Be Open-Source And Bank-Independent Now In Beta: Ripple   Paying without cash and without going through a bank may seem an impossible proposition. Not so, says Ryan Fugger, the architect of Ripple, an open-source bank-independent payment system that is now in Beta release, meaning it's open to play with and test. Photo credit: Mikael Damkier Conceived... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Sepp Hasslberger - Hasslberger on Physics - Economy - New Energy -- March 27

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 45   Here is a new basket full of new media gems for another great technology-rich Sharewood Picnic The Sharewood Picnic is my weekly collection of the best, most interesting new media tools, resources and pointers I have run into during my daily research and online explorations. These... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- March 26

Web Design And Development: Top 20 Best Practices   A year ago I have started to improve my web design and development skills and to share the knowledge I had with the visitors of my blog. Most projects and article I’ve created or written are still popular in the Net – The Web-Developer’s Handbook has... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Vitaly Friedman - Vitaly Friedman's Blog -- March 25

Embedded Micro Browsers Offer Enhanced Navigation Within Web Pages   "Micro, web-page embedded browsers, open up new possibilities for navigating and finding additional relevant content with great ease of use and while never leaving the original page." Imagine a micro browser, embedded in your web site home page, which allows your readers to navigate your blogroll... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- March 24

Instant Messaging Integrates Telephony And PC-To-Phone Calls: Yahoo Messenger With Voice Is Here   Yahoo has just released a new version of its popular instant messenger (version 7.5 Beta) which now integrates full voice telephony features allowing it to call and be called from any standard telephone or mobile in the world. According to USAToday "Yahoo is undercutting Internet telephone... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- March 23

Free Conversion To PDF, RTF Or OpenOffice Format For Any Microsoft Word File   If you are looking for a way to convert your "closed" and Microsoft-owned document files into an open-standard file format like .RTF (Rich Text File format) or OpenDocument - OpenOffice .SSX, or even into the Adobe PDF file format, here is a free and completely web-based... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- March 22

Contextual Ads Fuel New Content Distribution And Monetization Opportunities   "...the value that publishers and advertisers can gain from considering the value of content endorsed on a person-to-person basis has enormous potential." Content relicensing services provide publishers with steady if somewhat unglamorous revenues from individuals and institutions willing to pay a premium for the rights to redistribute... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment John Blossom - Shore -- March 21

The Power Of Open Participatory Media And Why Mass Media Must Be Abandoned   To promote a more participatory society, it is important to promote participatory media and to challenge, replace and eventually abandon mass media. Photo credit: Marilyn Barbone In order to better understand the mass media's inherent lack of democracy, it is useful to imagine a communication system that allows... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Brian Martin - University of Wollongong -- March 20

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 44   Here is a new basket full of new media delicacies for your Sharewood Picnic. Once again I have gotten a great bunch of interesting new media tools, resources and pointers I have run into during my daily research and online explorations. Some of these new media... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- March 19

Trusted Computing Misconceptions   Trusted computing: "Trusted computing is a family of open specifications whose stated goal is to make personal computers more secure through the use of dedicated hardware. Critics, including academics, security experts, and users of free and open source software, contend, however, that the overall effect (and... Link | cat.: Robin Good -- March 18

Breaking Out Of The System Loop: How To Drop Out   Here is a mental exercise in reading, and in maintaining a flexible viewpoint about reality and your future. If you are happy with business in general, with your work and salary and with the way we should conduct our lives is portrayed by most media, independent... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Ran Prieur - RanPrieur.com -- March 18

Infected By Anti-Virus: McAfee Triggers False Positives   A faulty update of the popular McAfee antivirus definition file, distributed last week, cancelled numerous Microsoft Office files and also other applications on computers utilizing McAfee's own antivirus solution. The error was due to the McAfee antivirus erroneously identifying standard files and programs as infected by... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Paolo Attivissimo - attivissimo.blog/ -- March 17

Interactive Two-Way Ad Conversations: Can Ads Be Commented?   Mordechai (Morty) Schiller writes in a comment to a truly insightful post by Steve Outing: "I don't see interactive advertising flying on Madison Avenue. (Although that fortress is already being stormed by the likes of Epinions.com and PlanetFeedback.com.) Photo credit: Cristoph van der Bij But it's a... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Steve Outing - eMedia-Tidbits Poynter Institute -- March 16

It's The News Editor The Real Star: Not The Content   It's hand-wringing time for journalists again. The annual report from the Project for Excellence in Journalism sounds increasingly familiar themes for a profession under fire. Photo credit: Emin Ozkan The gap between still-maturing online markets and waning print markets makes it harder than ever for news publishers... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment John Blossom - Shore -- March 15

The Myth Of Branded Content   Branded content is nothing short of a punch-drunk-fighters reaction to the paradigm shifting changes in our media and consumption habits. The rules have changed and it seems that interestingly advertisers are in a scramble to get out of the ad spot and into content generation. Soap... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Alan Moore - SMLXL -- March 14

Why Mass Media Are Bad: Weaknesses And Limitations Of Commercial Mainstream Media   Mass media are inherently corrupting. A small number of owners and editors exercise great power over what is communicated to large numbers of people. Mass media should be replaced by participatory media organised as networks, such as telephone and computer networks. Photo credit: Ben Goode Strategies to... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Brian Martin - University of Wollongong -- March 13

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 43   Here is a new basket full of new media delicacies for your Sharewood Picnic. Once again I have gotten a great bunch of interesting new media tools, resources and pointers I have run into during my daily research and explorations. All these new media gems can... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- March 12

Is The US Income Tax A Fraud? Indie Movie Investigates Truth   Is it possible that American citizens are all targets of a runaway government, intent on exerting it's power and expressing it's will - despite the law? Photo credit: Ophelia Cherry If you have been constantly watching TV news beamed out by mainstream TV networks I am sure it... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- March 11

Electronic Portfolios: What Are They?   Electronic portfolios or e-portfolios are gaining increasing media attention as potentially highly valuable learning, evaluation and assessment tools for educators, learners and academic organizations. An e-portfolio is a web-published collection of documents, information, link resources, audio and video clips that showcases the demonstrated abilities, know-how and... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- March 10

How To Create A RSS Feed From Any Web Page   Sooner or later, and maybe without even knowing the technical terms required to communicate this to someone else, you will want to subscribe and monitor web sites, information pages, or online catalog sections on an ongoing basis. You have heard about RSS, webfeeds, Atom and other... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- March 9

A Wiki For Everyone: Wetpaint   Create, contribute, connect. This is the new mantra for newly launched Wetpaint, a new wiki service, allowing you to create, edit and collaborate on private or public web content with unprecedented simplicity and ease of use. This is indeed how wikis should have always been, given the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good and John Blossom -- March 8

Should I Secure My Wi-Fi Access Point?   My brother Giovanni always reminds me that I should not let my office Wi-Fi hot spot unsecured as I am placing myself at the mercy of any unscrupulous hacker who may want to break havoc on my computer network at will. Photo credit: Tom Hayward Being the Robin... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - Slashdot -- March 7

P2P Economics: A Design Vision For A Commons-Based Distributed Marketplace   Michel Bauwens concludes his major essay on P2P economics by looking at the opportunities that would lead the economics of peer to peer to become increasingly important forces in the emerging new rich marketplaces created by information surplus, distributed technology, and by those instances where the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michel Bauwens - Ctheory.net -- March 6

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 42   Here is a new basket full of new media delicacies for your Sharewood Picnic. Once again I have gotten a great bunch of interesting new media tools, resources and pointers I have run into during my daily research and explorations. All these new media gems can... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- March 5

MasterNewMedia Design Challenge: And The Winner Is...   And finally the day has arrived for announcing the official winner of the MasterNewMedia Design Challenge. Photo credit: Dragan Trifunovic and Linda McNally I have spent all the time needed to make sure that my final decision on this could have been as fair as possible and uninfluenced... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- March 4

Receive Breaking News Via IM, SMS Or Email   A new Dutch-based service allows anyone to subscribe to her favorite news feeds and receive selected news items via instant messenger, SMS on mobile phone or email depending on her online presence "status" and personal preference settings. Photo credit: Ronen With such support one can remain in... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- March 3

Web Traffic Generation And Monetization Opportunities For Small Online Independent Publishers   Robin Good: Best Practices And Tactics For Increasing Web Traffic, Online Exposure and Visibility while being ethical, effective, and useful to the network at large. I am an online micro-publisher managing over 10 small and independent news sites and online resources for a total of more than... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- March 2

The New Ask Search Engine Shows Off Slick Interface And Good Results Too   If you are not completely satisfied with Google's ability to provide a direct and prompt answer to all your needs, you may like the array of integrated search facilities and information mining tools that the new Ask.com search engine has recently launched. The newly revamped search engine,... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment John Blossom - Shore.com -- March 1

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