Profiles Research Networking Software is an NIH-funded open source tool to speed the process of finding researchers with specific areas of expertise for collaboration and professional networking. Profiles RNS imports and analyzes "white pages" information, publications, and other data sources to create and maintain a complete searchable library of web-based electronic CV's. Built-in network analysis and data visualization tools allow administrators to generate research portfolios of their institution, discover connections between parts of their organization, and understand what factors influence collaboration.

From The Office of Research at Ohio State University. The "e-Protocol" system is of some interest. The training section has a fair-bit of online videos and such but there's no visible system that provides a managed training experience.

"Futurity features the latest discoveries in all fields from scientists at the top universities in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia. "

Aweesome! Also, no surprise but a demonstration that radial menus are useful with other input devices (in this case full body motion input benefits greatly from muscle memory.)

Google Scholar's indexing/querying interfaces aren't in-sync w/ Google Web Search itself. No real shock there, still a fun experiment.

"citeulike is a free service for managing and discovering scholarly references"

Somewhat dated (2000) research into the state of DTDs. (And mostly critical at that... haven't dug through the citations yet...)

"By using Web 2.0 social bookmarking sites, libraries can more easily manage subject guides and other lists of Web resources. Social bookmarking services such as Delicious provide a one-click method to bookmark a Web site, allowing librarians to describe and categorize Web sites."

Mobile, mobile, and more mobile. Pew has been beating that drum for a while though.

"A dierent approach is needed. We believe that automatically generated user interfaces, which are adapted to a person's devices, tasks, preferences, and abilities, can improve people's satisfaction and performance compared to traditional manually designed "one size ts all" interfaces."

"Every month Opera conducts a definitive analysis of the key trends affecting the mobile Web worldwide. We publish these findings as the State of the Mobile Web. Each report provides the most frequently visited sites, key data metrics from Opera Mini and a snapshot of a specific trend chosen by the analysis team that month."

"Your guide to "understanding how groups remember, think, and reason." The Augmented Social Cognition Research Group at Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)."

A study of HTML syntax usage via sampling the web. Think of it as an update to the Google web authoring report from a couple of years ago.

Håkon Wium Lie's PhD thesis covers his role in the development of CSS, history, practical uses, etc. For some reason, I've never read this. :-(

"We use sequential large-scale crawl data to empirically investigate and validate the dynamics that underlie the evolution of the structure of the web. We find that the overall structure of the web is defined by an intricate interplay between experience or entitlement of the pages (as measured by the number of inbound hyperlinks a page already has), inherent talent or fitness of the pages (as measured by the likelihood that someone visiting the page would give a hyperlink to it), and the continual high rates of birth and death of pages on the web. We find that the web is conservative in judging talent and the overall fitness distribution is exponential, showing low variability."

"We revisit a problem introduced by Bharat and Broder almost a decade ago: how to sample random pages from a search engine’s index using only the search engine’s public interface? Such a primitive is particularly useful in creating objective benchmarks for search engines."

"Interesting uses of markup I have found during 2008"

persai is now pressflip. couldn't find a reason for the change.

Standards for the description and exchange of aggregations of Web resources. These aggregations, sometimes called compound digital objects, may combine distributed resources with multiple media types including text, images, data, and video.

"This Handbook provides a survey of the field of collective intelligence, summarizing what is known, providing references to sources for further information, and suggesting possibilities for future research."

"The goal of the research conducted in this group is to learn about how people use the Web in their everyday lives and in particular, how differences in Internet use may contribute to social inequality."

"IHMC is a not-for-profit research institute of the Florida University System and is affiliated with several Florida universities."

Converts standard units to real world objects.

"Many recent PARC Forum presentations are available below. Each title link includes an abstract and speaker bio, as well as streaming video and downloadable audio podcasts."

However, looking at more recent data from Vivisimo and Dogpile, most web queries are still short—2 to 3 terms, and sessions include little query modification and are generally 2-3 queries in length.

Peter Morville: "I'm working on a new book (and talk) about the future of search, and I've created a seed collection of patterns and examples to support my research."

I'm even less convinced advanced search (as envisioned today) is a good idea now.

Marketing speak: "an underlying technology platform which gives individuals and organisations the ability to build a new style of human-centric and information-rich applications"

"to study online reading from different perspectives; publish research and demonstration software; and train graduate students working at the intersections of the humanistic, social, and technological disciplines"

"The effects of 6 foreground/background color combinations (color), 3 font types (Arial, Courier New, & Times New Roman), and 2 word styles (Italicized & Plain) on readability of websites were investigated."

Seems to be mostly web-based interfaces. Collection built using Flickr's tools.

Google Answers is back... (Well many of the same people, different company though)

Includes a link to the research paper written by the QS developers for CMU. Discusses some of the key issues of radial (pie) menus.

Further detail on why Google can not be used for language research.

A discussion of problems with using Google for language research.

A look at recruting people for usability testing and field research. The strongest recommendation is to avoid chosing people based on demographics.

Not new, it is a classic work studying the Goals, Operators, Methods, and Selection rules created by Stu Card, Tom Moran, and Allen Newell.

Performance results of systems trainted to perform translation from a given source language into the target language. The source languages were Arabic and Chinese, and the target language was English.

I'm skeptical of a study of web text that actually used justified formatting. It is a horrible horrible method of rendering text online considering shifting width due to resizable windows and unsatisfactory justification algorithms.