Robin Good Archive Of Latest News
May 2006

Microsoft Instant Messenger Gets Better: Windows Live Messenger 8 Beta   The latest Microsoft Instant Messenger, Windows Live Messenger 8, is an all-round instant messenger, with advanced voice and video communication abilities, integrated collaboration tools, and several more truly advanced features including PC-to-phone, SMSing and more. The highly promising new instant messaging platform from Microsoft, integrates everything... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Kolabora -- May 31

Save Web Content For Good Inside Your Personal Google Notebook   Saving content from the web, clipping snippets of text or full images that you may re-use to inspire the design your next campaign or to prepare the research essay you are working on is increasingly becoming a popular and much needed activity for any communication professional... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good and Kim Roach -- May 30

Iran-US Nuclear Standoff: The Official Letter To Bush From The President Of Iran   Nearly three weeks ago, Iranian President Mahmood Ahmadi-Nejad wrote an official public letter to American President George W. Bush manifesting his views on the world situation and on how the key issues and problems the planet is dealing with should be dealt with. Photo credit: Eircom Outside of... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Mahmood Ahmadi-Najad - President of Islamic Republic of Iran -- May 29

The Future Of Media Is In Content Aggregation, Not In Distribution   Content and news aggregators, remixers, thematic content search engines and directories, topic-specific curators, newsmasters are the new front lines to where new media publishers, unbundled from the need to be tied to one, unique physical distribution network will be moving to. The more you will be able... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Jeff Jarvis - Buzzmachine -- May 27

Portable Media Storage Devices To Become Key Personal Content And Software Application Servers   While flashy iPods hog the billboards and street posters in may urban centers, the quiet revolution is not in proprietary mobile devices but in the rise of pervasive memory sticks that are affordable and increasingly roomy. Photo credit: Bruno Neves Why lock your library of premium content... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment John Blossom - Shore -- May 26

Visualize Online Information Trends Over Time And Geographical Regions: Google Trends   The latest tool from Google is an online application that enables users to explore Google database of search queries and news headlines. It is possible to find out and compare the latest trends in Google searches and immediately see how or when the online news media... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good and Tommaso Lombardi -- May 25

The Human News Aggregator: An Interview About NewsMastering With Robin Good   Newsmastering is the ability to identify, select, aggregate, filter and distribute/publish news and informatiom streams on very tight, specific themes/topics. Newsmastering is a new emerging and much needed network function allowing the huge news flow to be categorized, filtered, de-spammed and re-routed and contextualized in one one... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Marshall Kirkpatrick - Netsquared -- May 24

RSS To Email: How To Let Readers Subscribe To Your RSS Feeds Via Email   As independent publishers keep lookingfor better and more effective ways to drive traffic to their web sites, email marketing remains one of the key strategic content distribution vehicles available to them. Photo credit: Dawn Hudson and Robin Good Even with the superfast growth and increasing popularity of RSS,... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good and Kim Roach -- May 23

If Profitability Is The Foundation Of Trust, Is Google Trustable? - Part II   "In reaching the conclusion that the coverage of Google relates primarily to the company’s corporate fortunes, one wonders if trust placed in the company may be based on the wrong qualities. If profitability is the foundation of trust, then Enron looked like a stalwart of twenty–first century... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Lee Shaker -- May 22

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 53   Photo credit: Podius Videoblogging, podcasting and video sharing service offers you a free blog Video sharing community whose content is raised by user's ratings Online photo editor enables you to edit and add special effects to your images within your browser Web-based group email application allows you to send email... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good and Livia Iacolare -- May 21

Information Design: Learn How To Clean-Up PowerPoint-Generated Statistical Graphs - Free Webinar   Nonetheless we are surrounded by the tools and features that automatically generate statistical graphs and charts, the majority of the diagrams shown during any typical conference or workshop presentation are nothing that I would call legible or understandable information. Too many years of Microsoft PowerPoint and its... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good -- May 20

Internet Searching Graduates To Classroom Lecturing Assistant: The Google Jockey   "A Google jockey is a participant in a presentation or class session who surfs the Internet for terms, ideas, or Web sites mentioned by the presenter or related to the topic at hand. A screen displays the jockey’s searches for all participants to see." Photo credit:... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative [via Stephen Downes] - Educause -- May 19

ActiveX Errors Won't Go Away With The New Internet Explorer: Microsoft IE Problems With Flash/Quicktime/Active Content Sites Are Still Here   I was working on version 2 of RSS DreamFeeder, when I got an email from an old customer. She was asking if there was an update to an old product I had made several years ago called IEWebFix. I had to tell her no, but that... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Ronald Northrip - RNSoft -- May 18

Internet Film: Pirelli's The Call Showcases Future Direction For Online Advertising   "Many advertisers are worried that traditional ways of reaching consumers, including the 30-second television spot, are losing their power to persuade. Television viewers have more channels and media to choose from, and digital video recorders and video on demand allow them to skip ads entirely. To... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- May 17

Internet Video Mini-Guide From Wired Magazine Showcases Best Online Sources Videos To Watch   In the new, May issue of Wired, the glossy magazine devoted to new technologies and their impact on society, one of the feature articles is entitled: A Guide to the Online Video Explosion - Wired's must-have directory of the best clips on the Web. The Wired mini-guide... Link | cat.: Robin Good -- May 16

Information Safety And Accuracy: Is Google Trustable?   This paper considers information safety and accuracy in the digital age using Google as an entry point. In doing so, it explores the role media play in shaping the relationship of information, privacy, and trust between Google and the public. Photo credit: Tyler Olson This inquiry is... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Lee Shaker -- May 15

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 52   Photo credit: Neil Paskin Video sharing platform allows you to publish videos and broadcast them from your website Record, mix and broadcast your podcasts and get free storage for them Music delivery and distribution service allows you to sell your music online Talking translator enables you to translate any text... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good and Livia Iacolare -- May 14

User-Driven Premium Content Aggregation Comes To Town: Google Opens Search To User Contributions And Classification With Google Co-op   This week annual press day at Google saw the debut of a number of interesting new services. A new beta version of Google Desktop offers enhanced desktop "widget" software that can be dragged to a PC desktop or in some instances dragged from a Google personal... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment John Blossom - Shore -- May 13

Online Slideshow Creator Lets You Mix Digital Photos With Original Music: vMix Photo Jockey   PJ180 is vMix new slideshow creator, enabling everyone to create great photo and image slideshows fully online and with from any computer type. vMix is an online service that enables people to publish and share their own video clips . Captured in one of our past Sharewood... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good and Livia Iacolare -- May 12

What Is A Blog? Video Remixing TheWeblogProject   Video remix by: Alessandro Luccardi Video editing and remixing online is getting better by the day, and the recently launched video remixing services that I have covered here on MasterNewMedia, have provided my mini-video team to effectively test and experiment what is actually possible to do wth... Link | cat.: Robin Good -- May 11

Context Is More Important Than Distribution Control   The explosion of content from television producers bringing original content to the Web may look on the surface like a consumer content story, but it's really only a very visible sign of a broader story impacting all content producers. Photo credit: Olga Shelego In a world with... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment John Blossom - Shore -- May 10

Advertising Search Becomes A Reality: TiVo Product Watch   Advertising search allows consumers to voluntarily seek and access personally selected commercial information (ads) on product and services they are interested in. TiVo, the company that pioneered a brand new category of television-ads skipping products with the development of the first commercially available digital video recorder... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- May 9

US-Iran: Raid On Nuclear Fuel Market   In the background of the political joust about Iran, a few countries are reshaping the world. They are taking possession of the global nuclear fuel market. New IAEA regulations should keep newcomers away. The US, UK, France, Germany, Russia, China and Japan will become world's nuclear... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Rudo de Ruijter -- May 8

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 51   Text-to-speech application enables your website to translate text into audio Web-based karaoke application allows users to sing, record, and playback their favorite songs Instant messenger with video enables you to make voIP calls and share your screen across the Internet Created with:Spell with Flickr Media sharing... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good and Livia Iacolare -- May 7

Economics Of Online Distribution: Who Benefits From Long Tail Aggregators?   Online distribution now provides the opportunity or everyone to be an author, whether that be an online film maker or a new thriving jazz ensemble. With the help of customers themselves, specialized search engines, directories, and theme-specific content clearinghouses make it now easy to discover new... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- May 6

Audio Conferencing Goes Free For Up To A Hundred Participants: Skypecasting Is Here   Skype has just launched a new beta release (ver. 2.5) of its popular instant messenger cum integrated VoIP and video while also opening up a new service called Skypecasting, which allows anyone to run one-to-many Skype audio conferences with up to 100 simultaneous attendees. The new... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- May 4

Spyware Detection? 97% Of Internet Users Ready To Be Infected   If you think that slick and professionally-looking sites, sporting national advertisers and promotions are safe destinations, void of malware or spyware risks for your computer, think again. Apparently, it's not easy to judge a site's safety just by looking at it, and in fact, good-looking sites are... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- May 3

What Is Screencasting? An Interview With Jon Udell   A screencast is a digital movie that shows an animated computer screen recording, with an audio narration. Screencasts are typically recordings of what is happening on a screen, which might be a web browsing session or a software demonstration, reported in real-time by a guide... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- May 2

What Is A Screencast?   If you want to teach someone else how to use your new software or web service there is little that comes close to the effectiveness of a good screencast. A screencast is nothing else that a screen recording accompanied by an audio commentary done by the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good and Livia Iacolare -- May 2

Internet Access Control And Discrimination: Net Neutrality   "This past month, on April 5, the House Telecom Subcommittee approved by 27-4 vote legislation allowing telephone companies into the cable business on a national franchise basis. The bill also allows the Federal Communications Commission to enforce its net neutrality principles. The bill was amended to... Link | cat.: Alex Curtis - Public Knowledge -- May 1

Go Find The Truth And It Will Make You Sick   A low-potency, low-dose, synthetic version of Vitamin D costs over $200 US in Germany, right now. Just wait till you see what Codex does over in the US! Photo credit: Alwaysyoung "Codex Alimentarius will be seen by future generations as the greatest threat to the basic... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Dee Nicholson - Stop Codex Alliance -- May 1

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