Robin Good Archive Of Latest News
February 2007

Be Your Own Boss! The Presentation   Can you make money online by publishing your own blog? This is a question I get asked a thousand times from a thousand different people. Truth is, you can be your own boss, if you are willing to sacrifice a guaranteed salary and a no-worries job... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 28

RSS Feed Reader Graduates To Social News Aggregator: Adobe MyFeedz   myFeedz is a new service aimed at personalizing and adding a democratic, social dimension to the RSS feed reading experience. Here we have an interesting attempt to roll together the success of social news sites such as Digg, services that quickly learn your viewing preferences such... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good and Michael Pick -- February 27

Blast Your Web Site Conversion Rates To The Max With The Google Website Optimizer   Google Website Optimizer is a new, free tool designed to provide online marketing managers and web advertising specialists with all the tools needed to carry out effective conversion testing on their site. This means that any webmaster or blogger who has a strong interest on how the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- February 26

Online Video Editing: The Best Web-Based Video Editing Tools - A Mini-Guide   Until some years ago, videomakers would have never foreseen the possibility to edit videos online in a semi-professional way and without having to buy expensive video editing software. However, today’s Web is populated by sites that allow users to edit videos online within their browsers, without... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Livia Iacolare -- February 25

DRM: Digital Rights Restrictions - Richard Stallman Viewpoint: Video   Digital Rights Management, or DRM, is an all-too-pervasive means by which the manufacturers of hardware and software - including music and video - place restrictions upon the people that buy it from them. If you have ever downloaded a music track from iTunes, or a... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good & Michael Pick -- February 24

More Online Collaboration Less Microsoft Office: Google Apps Premier Edition   Small Business Rejoyce! More Online Collaboration + Less Microsoft Office = Google Apps Premier Edition. As the leading alternative to Microsoft Office the new Google Apps Premier has the keys to open up the gates to organization-wide online collaboration. Google announced yesterday the release of new premier... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- February 23

How Can Small Photo Agencies Compete With The New Web-Based Image Libraries?   The very broad and pervasive emergence of web-based image sharing marketplaces (such as photo sharing sites and online free photo archives) has rapidly revolutionized the traditional photo agency market making it increasingly difficult for the many small picture and photography agencies to compete with the many... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 22

Subtitling And Dubbing Your Internet Video - Part Two: Audio Dubbing Video Guide   Subtitling and dubbing Internet video is a great way of expanding the reach of your own video, and of bringing whole new audiences to pre-existing content originally created in another language. In this second part of my guide to subtitling and dubbing on the cheap, I... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- February 21

Create Your Own Online Store: From Affiliate Marketing To Integrated Drop-Shipping - A Mini-Guide   How to create your own online store and sell selected products from your site: from affiliate marketing to integrated drop-shipping - A Mini-Guide. Photo credit: Pablo631 "Drop-shipping is a type of retailing where the retailer does not keep goods in stock, but instead passes the customer's order and... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick and Robin Good -- February 20

Create Your Own Online Advertising Network - A Mini-Guide   The time has come for the evolution of an advertising platform, "giving entrepreneurs, advertisers and publishers of all sizes the infrastructure and tools for creating customized online advertising networks". Photo credit: Xlucas With these new distributed advertising platforms, "network builders can define, assemble, merchandise and manage new,... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick and Robin Good -- February 19

Online Picture Editing: Free Web-Based Image Editing Tools   It used to be that you had to have a little toolkit of free image editing programs to take care of all the typical needs any visual communicator normally has. Mine still includes great free image editing programs like Photofiltre, Irfanview and DCE, a fantastic trio,... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Livia Iacolare and Robin Good -- February 18

Clinical Trials Get Under Scrutiny: How Medical Information Should Be Made Publicly Available   The way medical journals publish the results of clinical trials has become a serious threat to public health. You may find this assertion shocking and counterintuitive, but we hope that by the end of this short article you will agree and will join us in arguing... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Richard Smith and Ian Roberts - PubMed Central -- February 17

The Open-Source Story: From Free Software To Revolution OS - Video   Open-source software is revolutionizing business, transforming governments and enabling education across the planet. Open-source is built on the principle that the source code of a program should be readily accessible, so that users have the right to maintain, adapt and improve the software they use in... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 16

E-learning: Track Online Course Delivery And Student Performance Without A LMS - Articulate Online   Delivering and tracking effective e-learning content is an essential part of many companies daily workflow, and there are no shortage of services offering solutions to this problem. Not all of them offer an easy way to integrate your existing training materials with the need to monitor... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- February 15

Alternate Reality Games: A Mini-Guide   The expression "alternate reality games" refers to a type of game that overlaps the game world with reality, by utilizing real world media, in order to deliver an interactive narrative experience to the players. Over the past years, alternate reality games have captured the imagination of... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- February 14

Monetize Your Video Clips: New Integrated Video Advertising Engine Gives You The Means - AdBrite InVideo   Are you a videomaker, an independent video producer or a web publisher interested in monetizing your video based content? While here at Master New Media I have recently showcased some of the most interesting ways to monetize online video content, I have to admit that the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- February 13

Windows Vista And Office 2007: Pros And Cons Of Upgrading - The Becta Report   Few weeks have passed since Microsoft has officially launched Vista, its new operating system, and Office 2007, the latest release of the popular suite of productivity tools installed on most office computers around the world. Image credit: Windows Vista Package Nonetheless the short time since Microsoft recent... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good and Livia Iacolare - Becta -- February 12

Content Monetization: How To Make Money With Your Blog Content   Nonetheless many discount blogs and small independent news sites as possible instruments for content monetization, most such critics are stuck into an old and intellectualized notion of what blogs and one-person web sites should be about. Photo credit: Cristian Andrei Matei There is no law or tacit... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Livia Iacolare and Robin Good -- February 11

Are Your Privacy And Security At Risk With Google Apps? Googlephobia And The Master Plan Video   Everybody trusts Google - the name has become synonymous with web searches and contextual advertising, but mounting evidence leads some dissenters to ask the vital question 'are my privacy and security at risk when using Google services?' This is also the contention of a new short... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- February 10

Beyond NewsMastering: Yahoo! Pipes Is The Internet RSS Remixer - Overview And Reports   Yahoo! Pipes, is essentially a very powerful RSS feed remixer, which goes well and beyond the original newsmastering concept I described a few years ago. Potentially, Yahoo! Pipes is a highly disruptive visual programming environment that puts in the hands of many people the... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good and Michael Pick -- February 9

No More Stallman On YouTube? Open-Source Evangelist Says No To The Use Of Proprietary Video Formats   This article should really be titled "No More Stallman On YouTube? Free Software Evangelist Says No To The Use Of Proprietary Video Formats" as Richard Stallman is NOT an evangelist for open-source, but of Free Software, from which open-source movement later emerged. The key difference between... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 8

Brands Are Inside-Out, User Experience Is Outside-In   “The problem is that “brand” will always be about the impression companies want to make, and are by their nature an ‘inside-out’ proposition — a company figures out its brand and what it means, and does what it can to communicate or otherwise impart that message... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Peter Merholz - Peterme -- February 7

Subtitling And Dubbing Your Internet Video - Part One: Subtitling Video Guide   By subtitling or dubbing your Internet video output you expand its reach. This is a great way of adding value to your video, whether from an accessibility perspective, from the desire to reach an audience outside of your own first language, or even to add 'liner... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Michael Pick -- February 6

Online Video Publishing: Where To Find Free Corporate News Video Footage - The NewsMarket   Finding broadcast-quality news and product-oriented video footage has been until now an asset available only to the major television networks. Photo credit: Mike Gilbert Major television networks around the world are indeed hooked to major video distribution feeds that provide them with an ongoing stream of video... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good and Michael Pick -- February 5

Podcasting Services: Best New Media Tools Of The Week - Sharewood Picnic 89   Podcast and audio files creator lets you record your own show and publish it online RSS to podcast service lets you turn any RSS feed into an audio podcast to share it across the Web Mobile podcasting service lets you listen to podcasts on any mobile phones Photo credit:... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Livia Iacolare and Robin Good -- February 4

TV-Detox: Films And Videos You Will Not See On Your Television Set - A Mini-Guide   TV-Detox is a unique curated selection of the best and most interesting counter-information movies banned from commercial television networks. I have decided to put together this special feature as a mini-guide dedicated to collect, over-time, all of the great and rare to find movie titles that are... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 3

Computer Security: Trusted Computing Initiative Sets You As Your Own Computer Worst Threat - Protection Or Menace?   Trusted computing is a set of open specifications based on the idea that computer security can be achieved by implementing a particular microchip (called Trusted Platform Module), whose task is to allow users to install and utilize only “trusted” software (which is software that has been... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- February 2

Online Book Publishing: Issues And Problems Restraining Electronic Books Publishers Distribution Strategies   The buzz this week is about Google's plans to offer eBook downloads for PCs and mobile devices. Great news, but will this allow the book industry to wrestle out of the stranglehold of a mass of conflicting delivery technologies and DRM strategies? Photo credit: Sony eBook... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment John Blossom - Shore -- February 1

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