Karen Jenkin’s Blog

If you’re immersed in Web 2.0 applications and terminology, then take a look at this light-hearted view of how the phenomenon could affect your local supermarket.

Widgets – little self-contained applications that can be placed on a web page – are proliferating with the rise in online blogging, portals and social networking sites that have opened up their platforms (e.g. Facebook). Widgets effectively operate in a symbiotic relationship with the site or platform they sit on, each helping the other drive […]

Ever since virtual reality simulators and the movie Minority Report appeared, we have been tantalised with the possibilities of human-computer interfaces beyond the keyboard, drawing tablet and screen. From recent events, it seems that at least one of these new types of interfaces is coming of age: the multi-touch screen. In general, a multi-touch screen […]