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Belgium’s i-City project tests mobile applications with thousands of users
Kids, the internet and the end of privacy: the greatest generation gap since rock and roll [New York Magazine]
Trend: User generated search engine
Participle, a new social venture to design the next generation of public services
Experience Design Lab project on care for the elderly
Web 2.0 is a mass phenomenon, concludes UK survey
Technology transforming relationship between the elected and the electorate of Europe [eGov monitor]
Europe has celebrated 50 years of peace and political progression, but the next 50 will see massive changes in the relationship between the electorate and politicians thanks to technology. That was the message from the Microsoft Government Leader’s Forum 2007…
Study on use of tagging released
Healthcare 2.0?
Harvard Business Review features user-centered innovation as breakthrough idea for 2007
The Harvard Business Review has published its annual list of Breakthrough Ideas for 2007, written out in “twenty essays that will satisfy our demanding readers’ appetite for provocative and important new ideas”. Eric von Hippel wrote the entry entitled “An…
World Economic Forum on Web 2.0 and emerging social network models
Business apps giant SAP gets Web 2.0 bug [CNET News]
Futurist John Seely Brown: To fix education, think Web 2.0
Students’ new best friend: ‘MoSoSo’ [Christian Science Monitor]
IBM launches MySpace-like tools for companies [International Herald Tribune]
Governments should focus on connectivity, content and copyright to support user-generated content
World Economic Forum briefing materials
Corporate intranets apply Web 2.0 for user benefits, reports Nielsen Norman Group
Intranets typically avoid the over-hyped fads that wash across the Web, according to usability expert Jakob Nielsen, whose research firm Nielsen Norman Group today announced the winners of its seventh annual intranet design contest. This year, rather than avoid the…