Category Technology (general)
Too Much Information, an IBM research project [ACM Queue]
Book: The User Is Always Right
Berners-Lee calls for Web 2.0 calm [The Register]
Five years after the first internet bubble burst, we’re now witnessing the backlash against Web 2.0 and a plethora of me-too business plans, marketing pitches and analyst reports exploiting the nebulous phrase. Tim Berners-Lee, the individual credited with inventing the…
The EU’s eUSER project
Strategic planning for the future at Siemens
Microsoft opening major research centre in Turin, Italy?
Two new thematic Experientia blogs
Experientia, the international experience design consultancy, launches today two new thematic blogs: E-Democracy is aimed at public authorities. It gathers information on citizen participation and the use of web 2.0 technologies in the websites of public authorities, public administrations and…
Turbo-charging e-government
BBC Wap use flourishing in Africa
Africa, in particular Nigeria, is dominating international mobile phone access to the BBC’s website. According to July’s statistics, 61% of the BBC’s international Wap users came from Nigeria and 19% from South Africa. Africa is the world’s largest-growing mobile phone…
‘Digital natives’ changing office culture and news organisations
The Serious Games Initiativew
Poking a Stick Into The ‘Hive Mind’ [Newsweek]
Most UK youth on social networking sites [Financial Times]
Britain’s digital tribes revealed [BBC]
Vodafone online magazine on social networking the mobile way
Mobile internet is still a turn-off [The Register]
Cellphones top Iraqi cool list [The New York Times]
“Cellphones have long been considered status symbols in developing countries, Iraq included. But in an environment [like Iraq] where hanging out is potentially life threatening, cellphones are also a window into dreams and terrors, the macabre local sense of humor…