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Convergence

  • Posted by aiya
  • June 13, 2008

The more I read about personal learning spaces, the latest information architecture, social networking, and education, the more it seems that these fields are converging around the same set of concepts: personalization, customization, self-expression, affirmation, socialization, and navigation.
LearnHub is a great example of how these concepts can be combined for learning. Featured in TechCrunch yesterday, LearnHub [...]

Step 1: Define your audience

  • Posted by aiya
  • June 9, 2008

Oh, MIT. You and the bleeding edge.
Today, MIT’s Technology Review published Adapting Websites to Users–an article about a marketing experiment to increase Web sales by customizing content delivery to user. How? You might ask. By analyzing a user’s first few clicks on the site, matching it with a prescribed cognitive style and then selecting a [...]