Search Tools and Technologies - Articles Archive
from January 10, 2007 to October 14, 2006

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

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

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

For corporate newsmasters OPML reading lists are an excellent way of gathering and custom-distributing thematic collections of RSS Feeds within the organization. By being able to effectively aggregate, organize, label, and provide selected access to thematic RSS feeds collections, corporate digital information librarians are now given ... read more

As always, much of what you have seen in 2006 is only an anticipation of yet more innovative, effective and useful new media technologies to appear in the coming months. In this yearly "technology predictions" article I take a look at key new media technology areas ... read more

Personalized home page meets online virtual desktop: YourMinis - allows you to customize your own personal start page through RSS and OPML imports, full widget integration and open sharing of your newly aggregated content. The personalized home page has proved itself to be a great way ... read more

Internet TV is expanding at a breathtaking rate, and 2006 has been the year of Internet video. But the sheer amount of video content out there makes finding something worth watching a sometimes grueling task. Let's face it, among the rare finds and priceless gems there ... read more

Online video, or what we are increasingly referring to as Internet television, can't be really appreciated unless there are tools that simplify, facilitate and enrich the process of searching, playing, sharing and publishing online video content. The new Democracy video platform, a free, open-source tool which ... 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

Web widgets are tiny web applications that allow online publishers to easily distribute their content in a way that facilitates snappy integration by other blogs and web sites. In this video guide to web widgets I introduce you to these easy to use, highly interactive micro-applications ... 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

Where can you publish your video clips online? This mini-guide of online video sharing sites should give you a good reference to find your preferred online video publishing outlet. Online video sharing sites allow anyone connected to the web to easily upload digital video recordings so ... read more

Specify music style, mood, tempo and "age" of the music you want to listen to and Musicovery does the rest for you. Musicovery, is a new completely visual streaming web radio that allows you to precisely customize the genre and style of music you want 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

If you are independent online publisher trying to make money on the web, it is likely that you may have been considering how to crank out more monetizable content without having to clone yourself. As most experienced online marketers know, writing unique quality content is not only ... read more

Internet Television is indeed coming. But the best news is that small independent publishers, video makers and indie producers have now a new powerful ally facilitating their publishing, distribution and video monetization goals. And with such rapid expansion of online video publishing services, offering higher quality ... 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

Looking to find the latest new media tools, web services and the just-released new application software for independent publishing, for distributing content online or for communicating more effectively without needing to have a big budget? Here is our weekly collection of the best new media tools ... read more

Web 2.0 has unleashed an era of online participation, personalization and interoperability set to change the way we network, do business and interact with the media that engulf us. One of the most exciting developments in recent times is that of the mashup. The term mashup can ... read more

Social bookmarking meets social networking: Blue Dot pushes an evolutionary step forward the basecamp from where future online communities will start forming – Video Intro Blue Dot is a free service that combines the social bookmarking abilities popularized by del.icio.us with the social networking features of MySpace ... read more