Online Collaboration - Articles Archive
from December 5, 2006 to November 3, 2006

Want to share your screen instantly to somebody else, no matter what computer you or him are using? Now you can: a new real-time screen-sharing solution allows anyone to live share the contents of his screen with anyone else. No software to download, no setup or ... read more

Looking for how to send SMS messages to your group of contacts at once or access all major instant messaging networks from one single web page with no need to install any software? Needing to communicate more effectively without having a big budget? Here is Robin ... read more

Social bookmarking has been one of Web 2.0's success stories, tapping into the social dimension of the evolving internet, the power of online collaboration and the wisdom of crowds. The web is vast. Far too vast for anyone to have a hope of negotiating by themselves. ... read more

Both podcasting and file-sharing services have become key significant driving forces in the overall new media scenario which is transforming the web. With the development and advance of recent technologies such as wikis, blogs, podcasting and file sharing this model is challenged and community-driven services are gaining ... read more

As major media consolidation deals bring more and more publishing houses into private hands, the challenges of converting these properties that can respond to the needs of niche markets are becoming more acute. Combining infrastructure and staffs cannot be the only factor leading to more success ... read more

Blogs will make or break your business. They have the power to disseminate information and host global conversations on any topic. Every publication from Business Week, Forbes, and the Wall Street Journal to online white papers from Marqui warns businesses that blogging is not an optional ... read more

Looking for how to show video clips to remote viewers, send SMS messages to your group of contacts at once or access all major instant messaging networks from your mobile phone? Needing to communicate more effectively without having a big budget? Here is Robin Good's weekly ... read more

Nonetheless the Creative Commons organization and its innovative and open content licensing approach have now been around for more than a few years, there are still a great number of would-be independent publishers, authors, and artists that while wanting to make best of the new opportunities ... read more

Wikipedia and WikiNews are two of the most prominent examples of successful and widely used collaborative web editing tools. Both, among others, highlight some of the key transformation elements of the new emerging web. With the development and advance of recent technologies such as wikis, blogs, podcasting ... read more

Most often, when people are asked to describe the current media landscape, they respond by making an inventory of tools and technologies. Our focus should be not on emerging technologies but on emerging cultural practices. Rather than listing tools, we need to understand the underlying logic ... read more

Online collaboration? Video and photo sharing online? Independent publishing tools? You need not go search any further. Robin Good and Livia Iacolare bring together the most interesting new media tools they found during the last seven days and share their initial impressions and info on them ... read more

Participatory Media And The Pedagogy Of Civic Participation - The Transformation Of Education And Democracy: A Presentation by Howard Rheingold ''Education – the means by which young people learn the skills necessary to succeed in their place and time – is diverging from schooling. Media-literacy-wise, education is ... read more

Looking for the latest new media tools, web 2.0 services or for just-released new independent publishing software? Searching for how to distribute content online? Needing to communicate more effectively without having a big budget? Here is Robin Good's weekly collection of the best new media ... read more

Wikis, and similar collaborative web editing tools mark a major element of transformation of the new Web emerging today. To date, one of the main aims of the World Wide Web has been to provide users with information. In addition to private homepages, large professional information providers, ... read more

Exclusive coverage - Robin Good's Media Network announces the launch of the ECI, European Citizens' Initiative and provides before any traditional media outlet (including the BBC), information, news and a full video intro to this grassroots direct democracy citizen initiative. In the age of ubiquitous participatory culture ... read more

Mobile group text messaging, the ability to send out SMS messages to a number of contacts at the same time, is a quick and easy way of getting in touch with a number of contacts with the minimum of hassle. Writing one message instead of three, ... read more

Infoworld lead analyst and Test Center blogger in chief Jon Udell complains about screen sharing tools being too complicated and feature-rich. His request is for new tools to do one thing only while doing it very well. Is he asking for too much? As a matter of fact, ... read more

Google's Gmail For Mobile Devices service can now be accessed directly from any Java-enabled phone's menu, in addition to the previously available service allowing access using a mobile internet browser. Among the most popular web-based email services, Google's Gmail is packed with useful features, storage space to ... read more

Looking for the latest new media tools, web 2.0 services or for just-released new independent publishing software? Searching for how to distribute content online? Needing to communicate more effectively without having a big budget? Here is Robin Good's weekly collection of the best new media ... read more