Understand the context of privacy - Part 3
29th November 2007

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Understand the context of privacy - Part 2
27th November 2007

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Understand the context of privacy - Part 1
26th November 2007

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Tough times ahead for credit reporting
25th November 2007

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The Tigers are coming
18th November 2007

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Search, privacy, and advertising
16th November 2007

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Not my problem
8th November 2007

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Global Collaborative Search: Watch This Space
1st November 2007

The Web's current evolutionary phase, Web 2.0, highlights user- generated content. These days, anyone can publish anything, and everyone shares everything. They do it partly to gain or enhance a reputation ('Here are the coolest/most popular videos on YouTube') and partly out of a real desire to make contact with and collaborate with other people. For the first time ever, the scope of collaboration and social networking is transcending geographical boundaries and aspiring to be truly global.

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Methodology Mixer: Professional and Business Development for the Independent Worker
1st November 2007

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Enterprise Search: Rethinking it in a Web 2.0 World
1st November 2007

In the Land of Web 1.0, we would search by looking for a small box in the top corner of a website. The user would be expected to know a magical keyword or some other bit of information that would unlock the door to a cascade of results ready to be winnowed by hand into piles of carefully hoarded treasure. Publishing to the Web was controlled by a few individuals called 'webmasters' and data was carefully guarded behind moats and firewalls in castles called database stores. Search engines were composed of spiders that crawled the Web to find pages rendered in HTML, which made them understandable only to advanced human intellect and not re-use friendly. Search had to 'stink', which always seemed a bit unsanitary.

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