No Academic Pursuit: Making The Case For Adaptive UIs

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 by Garrick Schmitt

Any consumer who has made a purchase at Amazon.com understands what a personalized experience on today's Web looks like -- essentially personalized information drawn from a user profile, including purchase history, likes/dislikes and page visits. Ditto for Netflix which, along with Amazon, sets the bar for "personal" online. Not for much ...

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Google Maps Integrates Panoramio Geo-tagged Photos and Wikipedia

Friday, May 16th, 2008 by John-Alistair George

Google integrated Panoramio’s Geotagged photographs and Wikipedia articles to Google Maps. Google purchased them in May of last year. The Wikipedia articles are pretty bland and as such useless. Nonetheless the overall feel is great and the interaction simple. It’s great to see them adding more open content to Google ...

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