Independent Publishing - Articles Archive
from September 24, 2006 to August 9, 2006

Use Skype from your mobile phone, without having to download anything on your device Record instantly from your webcam and post your recordings on blogs, in messages or comments Enhance your site performances by analyzing the behavior of your visitors Organize and track the work of your team within ... read more

Podcasting needs still to find its own business model. While the podcasting production tools, the distribution venues and the independent authors multiply by the minute, I yet do not see effective new business models emerging from the growing podcasting wave. Doug Smith, who is the President of ... read more

by Kathy Sierra When you want to get - and especially keep - someone's attention, what's your competition? What else could they choose to focus on at any given moment? The belief that we have 100% conscious control over what we pay attention to is a myth. ... read more

by Sharon Housley SEO via RSS: RSS feeds are a great communication medium, and when properly managed, web feeds can bring in significant Internet traffic. RSS feeds should contain compelling themed content with episodic titles that are united in common broad theme. Use RSS feeds as an ... read more

Create your own media hosting site, or link hosted media to your pre-existing website Online tool to create, edit, publish, and show presentations Collaborate over Microsoft Word and Excel documents with others Voice messaging platform that enables you to send and receive voicemails Online and mobile community dedicated to sharing ... read more

A complete set of web-based applications provided by Google that you can offer to the visitors of your web site Send pictures, files or video clips to your contacts from your desktop through an avatar-based interface Web-based browser that protects your privacy on multiple fronts Online directory of web ... read more

Web Accessibility Guidelines: The second version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) is in final working draft and will soon be officially released. Version 1 of the guidelines came under much criticism for being vague, full of jargon and extremely difficult to use. The W3C ... read more

Web-based platform lets you organize and access your media files from anywhere on the web Create file sharing platforms for groups of people Chat with other people viewing the same site as you through the Firefox browser Send instant voice messages to mobile phones from your mobile and from ... read more

Sonific, a new service aimed at bringing embeddable music to your website, is now taking invitation requests. Your blog or social software space is a projection of your passion and interests out into the web. Sonific allows you to add a soundtrack to that projection of ... read more

Agggregate and compile the best video clipsvideos from YouTube, Google, Yahoo, Revver, to create your own unique video channels Web-based platform for video publishers to sell their videos and get paid Web service that generates RSS feeds for websites who don't have any Online service that allows you upload, ... read more

Embed a customizable Yahoo!-based search engine on your own web site Advertise your web site, product, service or company through a network of selected bloggers Online digital marketplace allows you to sell and buy digital products such as e-books and images Web site offers a marketplace for royalty free ... read more

Do RSS aggregators offer a true opportunity for news discovery, significant time savings and even for money-oriented RSS business opportunities? Kathleen Gilroy, CEO of the Otter Group, is right now putting the final touches on a new product that consists of a day-long boot camp introducing people ... read more

Record, replay and share any Skype call easily and simply Instant messenger that allows you to make calls from PC to PC and dialing out to landlines and mobile phones Online collaboration platform which combines the features of a word processor and a wiki Print documents from a computer ... read more

Book publishers are working hard to improve their online marketing channels for their titles, but ironically they receive the least help in many instances from the authors of those books. Most book author Web sites are weak marketing tools that are designed to do little to ... read more

Journalism without the media? How can that be? Can grassroots, community-based, networked journalism be transformed into a powerful new media format? NewAssignment.net, in the words of its own creator is "a way to fund high-quality, original reporting, in any medium, through donations to a non-profit..." Here three of its ... read more