Robin Good Archive Of Latest News
October 2007






  • Social Media: Google Maka-Maka Gets Ready For Social Networking In Context


      Are online conversations going to be increasingly driven by social media engines allowing infinite modular, dynamic and portable contexts to be created around any existing topic? Is contextually enhanced conversational marketing the golden path to a profitable future for social media outlets? By looking at how social...
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    John Blossom - Shore -- October 31




    Self-Publishing: Create And Print Your Own Book, CD Or Multimedia DVD With Lulu 2.0


      If you have not heard about it yet, Lulu is one of the premier online services that allows you to become a book publisher instantly and at zero cost. Upload your formatted Word or PDF file and Lulu takes care of the rest: printing, binding, order...
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    Michael Pick -- October 30




    BlogBridge 6 Reviewed: RSS Reader, News Aggregator and Blog Publishing Tool Adds Strong Meme-Tracking Features


      The only open-source, cross-platform RSS reader, news aggregator and blog publishing tool available today, BlogBridge, has just released a new, more powerful version: BlogBridge 6. As I strongly believe in helping out small companies that build great products get the visibility they deserve and as a...
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    Michael Pick -- October 29




    New Media Literacy And Education: What To Teach? Public Voice - Part 2


      New media literacy is the key missing component from our schools curricula. If you are to provide to your kids the mental tools and the manual skills required by today society you must help your sons master early in their teenage years how to express and...
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    Howard Rheingold - Education.Au -- October 28










  • Peer-to-Peer Governance, Democracy And Economic Vision: P2P As A Way Of Living - Part 2


      "Our current political economy is based on a fundamental mistake. It is based on the assumption that natural resources are unlimited, and that it is an endless sink. Photo credit: Maxim Malevich This false assumption creates artificial scarcity for potentially abundant cultural resources. This combination of quasi-abundance...
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    Michel Bauwens - P2P Foundation -- October 27




    How To Manage Copyrighted Content Across Social Media Outlets


      How do you manage copyrighted materials posted to social media outlets? The recently published UGCP principles document suggests to online social media sites to adopt whatever technology may provide a best fit solution to place a limit on the amount of infringing materials being posted to...
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    John Blossom - Shore -- October 26




    Google PageRank Devalued: What Is Really Happening - PageRank Does Not Count Anymore?


      The news is everywhere. Yesterday, October 24th 2007, Google has drastically started to lower PageRank for many popular sites, especially several prominent blogs and reputable marketing sites around the world. Many such sites have seen an overnight decrease of PageRank value of 2 or more points...
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    Robin Good -- October 25




    Selling Text Links Ads And Google Penalization: What You Need To Know


      PageRank down? Traffic taking a dive? If you are wondering whether your web site may have been penalized by Google, because of your adoption and use of text link ads here is my final answer on this: yes, and it is now also official (as many...
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    Robin Good -- October 24




    Web Design: How To Make Sure The Right Message Is Delivered


      Communicating effectively a specific message online can be one of the most challenging tasks a web designer can face, especially if who has commissioned the work is part of a large organization in which there are many heads to be "satisfied". Photo credit: Gino Santa Maria The fundamental...
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    Joshua Porter - Bokardo -- October 23




    Search Aggregated Social Media Networks And Selected Content Sources With Lijit


      Personalized search is gaining in popularity, as information overload reaches a critical mass. Lijit takes this to the next level, allowing your site visitors to search across the variety of social networking platforms for your content, compounding your position as a trusted source of information. It would...
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    Michael Pick -- October 22




    New Media Literacy In Education: Learning Media Use While Developing Critical Thinking Skills


      Media literacy is the notion that learning how to use new media technologies, online collaboration tools, personal publishing and live video streaming gear is not just about being cool and hip but it is a set of fundamental skills every young person should be equipped with...
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    Howard Rheingold - Education.Au -- October 21




    Peer-to-Peer Governance, Production And Property: P2P As A Way Of Living - Part 1


      Markets may be changing from a logic of pure capitalism (making commodities for exchange, so as to increase capital), to logics where the logic of exchange is subsumed to the logic of partnership. Photo credit: Maxim Malevich There is now a thriving field of social cooperation, which...
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    Michel Bauwens -- October 20




    Design Research: From Market-Driven Era To User Centered Innovation


      Design research is the avant-post through which in-depth analysis, questioning and experimentation gives way to new practices and effective new design methodologies. Design practitioner, researcher and innovator Liz Sanders has taken the time to take a snapshot at the state of design research around the world...
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    Liz Sanders - MakeTools -- October 19




    Content Media Trends And Future Directions For Online Media Publishing: What's Ahead?


      Are online media publishing industries set for another financial burst? Is the unstoppable amount of investments in online media ventures indicating economic trouble ahead? Or are you looking at something very different from what happened back in 2000? Photo credit: Andres Rodriguez and Picpics - mashed up...
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    John Blossom - Shore -- October 18




    Information Design Principles For Web 2.0 Design: Simple & Social


      Designing for the web today requires leveraging sound and well-tested information-design principles while increasing the amount of interaction and "social" components offered to your readers. Don't Make Me Think book cover remixed by Robin Good - Book photo credit: Steve Krug - Amazon The Web wave 2.0...
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    Ellyssa Kroski - InfoTangle -- October 17




    Online Video Distribution And Analytics Service: TubeMogul Reviewed


      Video upload services are already starting to multiply, and there are now plenty of ways to get your videos onto a number of hosting services without having to send the data to each one individually. A brand new service combines this feature with the ability to...
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    Michael Pick -- October 16




    Music Publishing: Make Your Music Profitable By Leveraging Events Context And Relationships


      As music sells increasingly more through concerts than through CDs, content superstars, like Madonna and the Rolling Stones, show that serious revenues can be built around events, without music publishers, record companies or labels and without the need to push pricey locked CDs to your own...
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    John Blossom - Shore -- October 14




    Why Open-Source Does Not Protect Your Freedom: Richard Stallman Explains Why Free Software Is The Only Answer


      Open-source misses the point of defending users freedom and assimilating open-source with Free Software only plays against the original Free Software movement ideals and goals. The necessities of commercial business have somehow eroded the original Free Software ideals and the operational advantages have rapidly gained...
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    Richard Stallman - Free Software Foundation -- October 13




    Experience Design: Who Does It, What Is It, How Do You Do It?


      Experience design is an emerging field of study and research that is strongly connected to design, marketing and the ergonomics and usability aspects of a product. But how do you carry out experience design work, who are the best interpreters of this new art, and which...
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    Elizabeth Sanders - MakeTools -- October 12




    Interface Design: How To Design Effective And Usable Navigation Tabs


      Tabs are one of the most frequently used navigation design solutions for many web pages needing to provide access to a lot of different content modules. Tabs, like in real life, are similar to an always-on minimalist menu, one that allows easy switching to a different...
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    Jakob Nielsen - Useit.com -- October 11




    E-Book Readers: Are They Really Coming?


      E-books, are they coming or not? Eight months ago, contaminated by the insight and enthusiasm of Antonio Tombolini, the Italian e-book pioneer, I had given in-depth coverage to this little talked about technology that is slowly but steadily improving its capabilities. Photo credit: Sony Apparently unnoticed by...
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    John Blossom - Shore -- October 10




    Video Advertising And Monetization: Google Launches AdSense-YouTube Video Units


      Online publishers and independent video producers rejoyce: Google has just announced the launch of "Video Units", a new video-based advertising format that matches the breadth of consumable video content of YouTube with the huge Google AdWords advertising inventory. The new Google Video Units are a new...
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    Robin Good -- October 9




    Ustream vs. Mogulus: Which Live Video Streaming And Broadcasting Service Is Better?


      Most everyone interested in live video streaming has asked me at one point or another whether Mogulus is better than Ustream and what I would recommend using. For those of you unfamiliar with the above two web-based services, they are two of the most interesting live...
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    Robin Good -- October 8




    How To Spread Your Ideas Successfully - Seth Godin


      How do you get your message to spread? How do make sure your voice and idea does not get lost into the raising noise all around you? Photo credit: Dangerouslyawesome How do you market your brand now that the TV industrial complex advertising mechanism costs more but...
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    Seth Godin - TED Talks -- October 7




    Federal Reserve: Its History And Role Explained In New Book


      Money plays a key role in modern life; in fact, for some people, nothing is more important than acquiring more of it. Photo credit: Aaron Kohr and Batman 2000 - Mashed up by Robin Good Yet most people do not know what money really is, how...
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    Michael J. Ross - Slashdot -- October 6




    Online Collaboration: Share More, Share Better


      How do we share, collaborate and cooperatively support each other effectively online? Are there ways and methods we can use to improve our online sharing and collaboration abilities? Photo credit: Viewimages Joshua Porter, brings in another inspired short essay, this time focusing on what you need to...
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    Joshua Porter - Bokardo -- October 5




    Usability: How To Create Effective Personas


      If you want to design your web site with a user-centered approach, using personas, can greatly facilitate your task. Here in fact is a great simple guide to how to create your own personas. Photo credit: Ron Chapple Studios Personas, is a term utilized in design and...
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    Dr. Lene Nielsen - HCI Vistas -- October 4




    Usability Guidelines For Mobile Publishing: What To Do To Best Serve Your Mobile Phone-Based Readers?


      More and more mobile phones users are browsing and searching the Internet on their handsets. But are you doing anything to make your blog or news site usable for these loyal readers when they are on the move? Photo credit: BBC Mobile In some European countries, for example,...
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    Abid Warsi - WebCredible -- October 3




    Online Video Editing Gets Social: Kaltura Reviewed


      Online video editing capabilities continue to improve, and it is now relatively simple to remix your clips online. Kaltura, however, attempts to turn web video editing into a social activity, and does a good job of it. Ever since the release of JumpCut and Eyespot last year...
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    Michael Pick -- October 2




    Online Advertising: Ad Revenue Optimization For Your Blog - PubMatic Is Here


      Internet ad revenue optimization can be a tricky business, and often involves spending a good many sleepless nights testing ad units, placement, and even which networks to give your business to. A new service, however, promises to automate the entire process, and claims that you...
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    Michael Pick -- October 1






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