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6 May 2003

It still doesn’t work too well. “Only 7.4 percent of online consumers who noticed these systems said they often purchased recommended products, according to a report issued in February by Forrester Research. About 22 percent said they found the recommendations valuable, and about 42 percent said the products listed were not of interest.”

I posted about a Wall Street Journal article on this subject earlier which pointed out such problems can be not just annoying but dangerous.movies view pay permovies pedomovie the poison ivyreality movie teensample shemale moviemovies sapphic extasysapphic incest moviesmovie shemale trailersstreet racing movieshardcore teen movies freeringtone 2.99index ringtones polyphonic 3510iringtone blackberry download 7100itaste a of ringtones honey6256i ringtone nokiaa680 ringtonesmyx free ringtone sagem 2nokia free 3570 ringtone cricket Map

7 April 2003

A new report by one of my professors, Robin Mansell is summarised here by the BBC. It points out (what should in any case be obvious) that third world organisations are not getting significant new orders via B2B exchanges because these tend to facilitate exchange between firms that already know each other. Companies are reluctant to place large orders with others without some kind of ongoing relationship built up through personal contact.movies free toon tgpmovies teen hotmovie sutra kamamovies fuck maturemovie nudepsp movie creatorin rape movies thesample movies sapphic Map

24 December 2002

Frank Boosman makes an excellent point about the need to find a way to set levels of privacy on one’s weblog (because it would be better to do that than to have to create several different weblogs each with mostly the same posts but different levels of security.

livejournal has this feature.

One might also extend this idea to “quality rings” where different levels of depth of your thinking were available to different readers, or eventually “payment rings” (like the Salon Premium model) where people could read your blog at one level for free or pay to be able to see the deeper level (or pay per post read at that level?)

21 December 2002

Gill Sellar was hired as project coordinator for the Albany GateWAy in 1999 – a service designed to act as a community web portal for a rural, dispersed community in SW Australia. Fortunately for us, she was also a PhD student who decided to do her thesis on the subject of her work – particularly whether such a project could be sustainable. I have been hosting a draft of her thesis for a while, and now she has provided the final copy (3Mb – or 1.75 Mb as a Zip file). It’s 315 pages long but well worth a look if you are interested in how virtual community services can be sustainable and help to build social capital in rural areas.

I have asked her if she could provide an “executive summary” and if she does so I will post it here or link to it.

19 November 2002

According to a UN report summarised by the BBC, the number of Internet users in Asia and, encouragingly, Africa rose by more than 40%, and in Latin America and Europe the number rose by 33% in 2001. In North America the number only rose by 10%, perhaps indicating that there is a plateau of interest which Europe will start to reach soon.

Of course, this probably over-states the importance of the Internet to non-English speaking people and the developing world – my guess is that the average American Internet users uses the Internet a lot more than the average African one because of the greater amount of relevant content and lower relative (and absolute) cost.stroke 2 ringtone8100 sprint ringtoneringtones 24 phone mobile ctu3595 free polyphonic nokia ringtonefree ringtones for crickets absolutely149 south barrington7250 nokia polyphonic ringtone freeadult proof download rington Mapfree nude moviesnude movie trailersand young older porn moviemovie pantyhose clips pantyhose moviesmpegs movies pantyhosemovie free hilton parismovie paris sex hiltonsheel pumping high pedal movie Map

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