Open access Web research sources – Web Focus, UK
There are interesting access-free resource documents, placed for the UKOLN Events, UK.
The presentations can be accessed through these links:
- UKOLN - UK Web Focus - Presentations - 2006 (Web 2.0 Focus)
- UKOLN - UK Web Focus - Presentations - 2005 (RSS Focus)
- UKOLN - UK Web Focus - Presentations - 2004 (New Web technologies)
There are about 50 presentations in HTML and ppt format.
Useful Web service – Page2RSS
Recently I found very useful service Page2RSS, which enables RSS subscriptions to the pages without RSS feature.
The service is very simple - there is only need to paste the Web page URL, and on the next service’s page there is the RSS url which is traceable with RSS readers.
The result on the reader shows is there any changes. Sometimes this does not work very well because sites use flash or use visitor's counters, current time etc.
External Link Icon – Small Part of Web Credibility
From the moment when Wikipedia introduced its external link icon (), it is matter of time (my estimation is next 12 months) when that effect will become de facto standard. It will happen when NYTimes.com introduce external link icon on its Web pages.
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 state:
"Clearly identify the target of each link. [Priority 2] Link text (The rendered text content of a link) should be meaningful enough to make sense when read out of context -- either on its own or as part of a sequence of links. Link text should also be terse."
Depending on how this checkpoint is read, this could mean that every external link should be identified within the link text...
E-business models taxonomies – History, comparison and the future
There is the need for majority of researched e-business models to be mentioned at one place (although those are not all existing business models on the web), and commented if needed (I use it at e-business postgraduate studies IIM/EURO). At the end of this article I mentioned three "new" e-business models, based on the variation of several existing ones.
Timmers (1998)
E-shop Value chain integrators
E-procurement Virtual communities
E-auction Collaboration platforms
E-mall Third-party marketplace
Information brokers
Viehland (1999)
He has identified three new or emerging business models that are made possible by the Web:
- Virtual retailer
- Distributed storefront
-...
Interesting Google PR Phenomena
For a long time I have Serbian version of the blog with Google PR 5. This blog is accessible through address draganvaragic.com/weblog. In addition, I did the sub-domain redirection to Serbian blog at blog.draganaragic.com (also PR 5). When I created blog in English, I put permanent URL to blog.draganvaragic.com. The PR of the sub-domain is the same, although the PR of the new blog is 0, of course.
I hope that the explained phenomena will influence better position of the new blog, before the permanent PR change from Google :)
