The Web Innovation Project, which was the initial focus for this blog, has now published its final report which you can download in full below: Web Innovation Project Final Report This highlights the many successes of the project, such as the introduction of a University wide Wiki, the widespread adoption of QR codes, the creation [...]
Here are the mobile access stats up to June 2011. This seems to show a slight return to previous trends, with Android increasing its market share once more, though iPhone share has also increased. With the new iPhone 5 apparently not due until later in the year – something of a break from tradition for [...]
Here is the latest data on mobile access to the University of Exeter websites. It looks very much like the introduction of iPad2 at the end of March has galvanised the Apple marketshare, reversing the previous trend for Android adoption. This is somewhat surprising given reports from sector observers. The recent Gartner report put global [...]
Well today is the last official day of the Web Innovation Project. We’re dismantling our equipment, filing our reports, and cleaning out our virtual cupboards. It’s been an interesting time, almost two years now of investigating, understanding and implementing web innovations on behalf of the University. We’ve had some great times, created interesting new tools, [...]
If you’ve not come across Google Goggles before now, it is an astonishing visual search technology. It has been available for Android phones for some time, but has just become available on the iPhone. A similar feature called ‘Amazon Remembers’ in the Amazon iPhone app allows you to have a photo you take matched to [...]
If there’s one thing that’s constant about the web today, then it’s change. Not so long ago it was all about Internet Explorer versus Netscape, then IE versus Firefox, but just when you think things are settling down – and browser wars are a thing of the past – along comes mobile browsing and things [...]
We were lucky enough to be invited to showcase our work at the RSC (regional support centre) conference on Thursday 24th of June 2010. We met a diverse and enthusiastic collection of attendees. They were interested not only in many of the technologies we hope to bring to use at Exeter University, but they were [...]
Back in December last year I started this new blog post about Web Science. Other things took precedence though, so it’s laid on the back burner for many months, but I always intended to come back and finish it properly – after all, Web Science may well be one of the most important new disciplines [...]
In the process of working together with Rich to build the 3D campus on Google Earth, I had a cunning plan. It was a plan so cunning that you could call it a fox that has just been made professor of cunning at Exeter University! We need photos to be able to add textures to [...]
One of the major reasons for hosting our World of Web Technologies event in late March was to get feedback from visitors on what they thought the University should be doing with new web tools and services. In order to gather this information we encouraged visitors to fill in a short questionnaire, offering an iPod [...]