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This paper reports initial findings from a study that used quantitative and qualitative research methods and custom–built software to investigate online economies of reputation and user practices in online product reviews at several leading e–commerce

we can survey the ground traversed by Web 2.0 projects and discussions in order to reveal a diverse set of digital strategies with powerful implications for higher education.2 Ultimately, the label “Web 2.0” is far less important than the concepts, pr

"The Usability Exchange website launches on 16 March 2006... ...to provide instant user testing with disabled users. Organisations can now find out what disabled people think of their website by logging on to www.usabilityexchange.com. This launch come

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sublimely po-faced 'history' + you can point your teenagers at it as a homework resource :o} .."As many people know, today's Internet has its roots in the huge silk and cotton mills which grew up in the 19th century during the Industrial Revolution."

neat ajax enhances OPAC example... "serendipity code now considers keyword phrases returned by answers.com, instead of just single keywords.  As an example, here's what appears if I try searching for the film "Faraway, So Close" on our OPAC

Here are some directions in library search (is this the right word?) we are likely to see over the next while. And remember this is about 'and' not 'or'. New value will emerge from the combination of a variety of approaches to create more engaging, functi

I talked about search, share and subscribe [see prev post], as potential user requirements. I notice a growing tendency to describe services in terms of three verbs. Here is an alliterative line up for the catalog: rank, recommend and relate

A service that would search in all 12 of these engines at once would be a great human indexed web to challenge the current traditional search engines.

This is more a wish than a prediction but I am betting that there will be one killer search engine for all the social bookmark services, someone to do for bookmarks what Technorati does for blogs

Rumors are buzzing today that the long awaited, almost acquired photo facial recognition service Riya should be moving out of private alpha and launching a public beta sometime today. The main site is currently down and “asks for your patience”, which

In the eLearning world, blogs represent the pendulum swinging the other way. Their growing popularity is a reaction against the bulky nature of most course management systems -- Who needs a $60,000 LMS to announce that donuts will not be served at next we

An early alpha release of Firefox 2.0 has been quietly released. I don’t care if it is an alpha, it has to be more stable than v.1.5. I’ve downloaded it and its working swimmingly so far on my Mac. In fact I am writing this post with it.

RSS news reading has, to date, revolved around the metaphor of email. myBroadSheet is a different solution for a different type of person. It can broadly be described as an RSS news reader for those who want a news reading metaphor their used to.