Robin Good Archive Of Latest News
January 2007

Create Your Own YouTube: Online Video Publishing Platform Allows The Creation Of Your Own User-Generated Video Site   The audience has left the seats and it won't be told to sit back down again - armed with the tools of easy online video publishing, new media audiences are giving new fuel ad interest to fast growing area of consumer generated video. The explosion of... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 31

Online Publishing Platform Allows Full Syndication And Distribution Of Multimedia Content: Splashcast   Every week it seems to become a little bit easier to get involved in multimedia content delivery and syndication - whether through sharing videos using Youtube, photos through Flickr, or your thoughts using popular blogging platforms. The ability to upload, embed and easily share media content... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- January 30

IPTV And Home Television Offerings Are Telcos Best Stealth Solution To Bypass Any Net Neutrality Resistance: Wake Up   Has your telecom company called to offer you its latest Internet high-speed line offering bundled with their latest home-IPTV bonanza? Watch out, surprises coming.... Photo credit: Intellix In this article I report about the very negative experience of installing the newest Internet high-speed offering cum IPTV solution... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 29

Photo Sharing: New Digital Photo Tools Make It Easy To Share, Organize, Publish Your Best Pictures   Looking to get some of your just captured best digital shots and send them over to a colleague across the ocean? In need to create an online professionally-designed photo album where to present your latest photo-shoot? Want to create an effective photo slide-show without having... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Livia Iacolare and Robin Good -- January 28

The Digital Divide: Issues And Possible Solutions   The expression "digital divide" refers to the existing gap between those who can use new digital technologies and those who can’t. This is a key issue of today’s society, since it also provokes a distinction between those who can access certain information and those who are... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 27

Alternate Reality Games: Business Models (Part IV)   ARGs excel at providing a rich and rewarding cross-media experience to players, usually with a uniquely strong story and enthralling gameplay. Their creators rarely have problems coming up with ideas and content, but a frequent early problem is that of how to secure income to support... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment The IGDA Alternate Reality Games SIG - IGDA -- January 26

Video Search Engines And Online Video Directories: A Mini-Guide   Video search engines and online video directories allow for the indexing, cataloguing and searching of as large a quantity (or as specific a theme - this is yet to come) of video and digital film material as it is possible for them to find on the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good and Livia Iacolare -- January 25

Visual Communication And Online Image Editing Tools - The Best From Sharewood   Today, if you want to communicate effectively, whichever is your medium of choice, you must understand and leverage the power of visual communication. The more you understand the logic and principles that direct effective communication the more you can leverage the fascinating new digital image... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 24

How To Sell Your Photographs Online: A Citizen Journalist's Mini-Guide To Monetizing Your Camera-Phone Content   It is now easier than ever to sell your pictures online, regardless of whether you are a professional photographer, or an everyday person armed with your camera-phone. In fact, the latter is increasingly desirable in the fast-paced, wait-for-no-man world of news content. Photo credit: Alexander Kolomietz Citizen ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- January 23

Browser Compatibility Testing: BrowserCam Gets Better - Video Review   Browser compatibility testing is a web development practice that allows a web site owner to verify how her web site or blog, appears on computers utilizing browsers, operating systems and screen resolutions that are different from the one used in originally designing / developing a web... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good and Michael Pick -- January 22

Mobile Services: Best New Media Tools Of The Week - Sharewood Picnic 87   Looking for the latest and most interesting tools and services to use with your new mobile phone? In this issue of Robin Good's Sharewood Picnic the spotlight is on mobile services and tools and I am happy to bring to you the very best we found... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Livia Iacolare and Robin Good -- January 21

Clinical Trials: The Growing Business Of Medical Experimentations In Developing Countries   A recent report by BBC has brought to light the existence of an infamous clinical trial business that is spreading in the developing countries. Such business involves thousands of unaware patients that get drawn into experimenting new drugs without their explicit consent, sometimes under the wrong... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- January 20

Independent Film-Making Mocks At Mass Media Best Propaganda Tactics - Death Of A President   Mass media have long had a choke-hold on the construction of everyday reality, but independent film making is striking back, using the same tools as the propaganda machine to challenge the status quo. When the news is piped into our living rooms, we are served up... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- January 19

First Amendment Gets Challenged By New US Bill: Grassroots Bloggers At Risk?   This is the news indeed: Congress is considering sending critics to jail, and in particular it places its focus for preventive action on what should be the very source of government dissent and criticism in any democratic country: the grassroots. While not yet an official law, this... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 18

Convert And Encode Video Files From And To Any Format: HeyWatch   Online video encoding and video formats conversion are some of the most time consuming tasks an online video publisher has to confront himself with. But a new online service from Europe puts an end to this huge time waster once and for all. Small online... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 17

Online Publishing Hot Trends: The 2007 Business Outlook For Online Media Publishers   As the pace of change continues to increase, new small online publishers as well as established content media giants will both need to understand where and how to invest extra time and resources to keep their companies growing while providing more of what online audiences are... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment John Blossom - Shore -- January 16

Create Interactive Image Portfolios That Can Be Embedded On Any Web Page: Leafletter   If you want to create an electronic portfolio of creative works or a visual conundrum of images on a specific topic, to be easily integrated within an existing web page or in need to be distributed virally across as many sites as possible, Leafletter may just... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good and Michael Pick -- January 15

RSS Tools and Services - The Best Picks From Sharewood   RSS tools and services play an increasingly important role in the effort to effectively aggregate, syndicate, market and distribute online content. Photo credit: Eric Ejk Thanks to RSS feeds, many of your readers need not go and check your home page on the internet every single day... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 14

Network Neutrality: What It Is, Why It Is Important, What You Can Do About It   Net neutrality remains a hot topic in 2007 as the US congress discusses again around whether providing truly equal access to every publisher on the Internet will remain a fundamental right or whether those having greater financial capabilities can rule a preferred distribution highway for themselves. Photo... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 13

Alternate Reality Games: Design, Development And Implementation (Part III)   In the first part of this paper we provided an introduction to Alternate Reality Games, whereas in the second part we covered a large variety of games within ARG. This section addresses the specific details and design choices faced when developing an ARG. There are a... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment The IGDA Alternate Reality Games SIG - IGDA -- January 12

Web-Based Applications Go Offline: SocialText Unplugged Ushers Us In The Offline Web App Era   Socialtext Unplugged is leading the way in adding a whole new level of flexibility to the world of web-based applications, by pioneering ways in which you will be able to work seamlessly with your favourite web apps even when you are not Internet-connected. Photo credit: Dusan... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good and Michael Pick -- January 11

Watch The Best Video Clips And Channel Surf The Internet Television Phenomenon With StumbleVideo   Have you been trying to find some cool internet video only to waste a lot of time to find little or nothing? You are not alone. Nonetheless the huge amount of video content now accessible online, finding the quality part of this infinite long tail of videos... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 10

Product Placement And Hypercommercialism Pervade Hollywood Film Industry: But No-One Seems To Notice   Product placement presents consumer products, brand names and locations to film and television production teams for inclusion in their projects. The goal is the one of raising brand awareness while selling the idea to movie production houses as a "clever" way to reduce their costs while... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 9

Remote Synchronized Online Video Viewing: Watch Any Video In Sync With Anyone Connected Online - Best Tools Reviewed   Internet video and online collaboration were massive growth sectors in 2006, and as 2007 forges ahead the two are finally coming together. With the emergence of the first real-time video synching and sharing solutions, the Internet video experience is definitely bound to become a critical work... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- January 8

Future Of Indie Films And Video Online? Francis Ford Coppola And Intel VP Sean Maloney Share Their Insights - Video Clips   What is the future of independent films and user-generated video now that the online video revolution is in full swing? World renowned film-director and Oscar winner Francis Ford Coppola shares, in this very old television clip (must be from the 80s), his 1-minute insight into the future... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 8

Online Video: Best New Media Tools Of The Week - Sharewood Picnic 86   Music video creation service lets you personalize your own video clips through a web-based recording and post-production studio Video tagging service allows you to bookmark specific scenes inside online videos on YouTube and Metacafe Video clips clearinghouse lets you watch some of the very best user-generated video clips... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Livia Iacolare and Robin Good -- January 7

Medical Imaging Technologies 2.0: Portable, Disposable, Wireless - Pillcam Is Here   The ubiquity of cheap, all but throwaway cameras is something we have come to take for granted. Web-cams and the advent of online video sharing have made broadcasting our internal lives to the world as easy and as commonplace as picking up the phone. But... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- January 6

Personal Productivity: The Best Tools And Services From Sharewood   Personal productity tools and online services are increasingly taken over physical consumer electronic tools and downloadable utilities. Nonetheless there will always be space for the latter two, it is indeed an outstanding fact that with the advent of what is being labelled Web 2.0, the number... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 5

Ad-Supported Open-Source Community Blogging Becomes Reality: OpenServing Is Here   Social media defined the last year of developments across the web, with social bookmarking, news, networks and community blogging rising into the ascendant. The web has transformed itself, moving forward from one-way, static communication into a sphere dominated by democratic, peer-driven content unfolding in a... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- January 4

Alternate Reality Games: Genres And Categories (Part II)   Alternate Reality Games: Genres And Categories - Originally funded and developed by independent game-makers, the popularity of the Alternate Reality Gaming genre (ARG) has grown in a way that lends itself to a further breakdown into several sub-genres. In the first part of this research we... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment The IGDA Alternate Reality Games SIG - IGDA -- January 3

Share Designs And Visuals Online For Commenting And Group Review: ConceptShare - Video   Online collaboration moved from strength to strength in 2006 with a host of free and paid services that allowed for rapid web-based sharing of ideas, documents and even desktops. Until now, though, web-based collaboration has tended towards emulating the function of office applications, at the expense... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- January 2

Online Video Tools And Internet Television Trends: The Best Of 2006   Online video, Internet television, IPTV and grassroots independent video publishing will indeed be some of the fastest moving new media sectors. All of them will see further changes, unpredicted disruptions and innovation, and lots of new fascinating video publishing tools and content opportunities during 2007. Photo... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- January 1

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