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Networked Insights — The leader in Customer Intelligence across. Social Networking. Collective Intelligence. Online collaboration. Collaborative-filtering. Social evolutions. User Experience? - Continuations. The (Re)Convergence of User Experience? Something big may be happening to user experience. Bing and Google will soon be showing tweets as part of the search results (they have both licensed the full Twitter firehose and Marissa Meyer yesterday demoed a version of “Social Search”). Google is already returning videos from Youtube as search results and apparently will soon be offering music.

Bing video results can be played right on the results page. Facebook just announced music gifts that can be played right inside of the news feed and wall. All of these might simply be seen as UI affordances, but I am wondering whether this is a trend that will ultimately result in a convergence of user experience. For some time now we have taken tree like navigation as a given for the web user experience, with the root of the tree being search.

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Tbensoussan. Web history future. Tools. Page Capture Add-On for Firefox Abduction! Marketing Tools and Backlink Checkers. Web aps Software. WebMarketing Blog tips. Web’s third frontier. Everyone realizes that the web is entering a new phase in its development. One indication of this transition is the proliferation of attempts to explain the changes that are occurring. Functional explanations emphasize the real time web, collaborative systems and location-based services.

Technical explanations argue that the interconnectivity of data is the most significant current development. They consider the web’s new frontiers to be closely related to the semantic web or the “web of things”. Although these explanations are both pertinent and intriguing, none of them offers an analytical matrix for assessing the developments that are now underway. In contrast, other explanations are far too broad to serve any useful purpose. How can the web’s development be understood? The web represents a compendium of technical resources, functionalities and usage practices, and it cannot be reduced to just one of these dimensions. The founding principles The two initial phases of growth.

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