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A new study from the University of Illinois confirms what many of us may have suspected privately: "personalized" marketing communication online can often make us actively dislike the message's sender.

On the UK's Guardian newspaper site today, writer Jemina Kiss suggested that Web 3.0 will be about recommendation. "If web 2.0 could be summarized as interaction, web 3.0 must be

This week ReadWriteWeb is running a series of posts analyzing the 5 biggest Web trends of 2009. Our first post was about Structured Data, our second about The Real-Time Web.

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/software/Interview_with_Google_s_Sep_Kamvar_Lead_Software_Engineer_Personalization'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; As part of our Personalizing Google Week, we conducted an email interview with Google's Sep Kamvar, who is Lead Software

At the Next Web conference in Amsterdam over the weekend, Tapan Bhat, the Yahoo! vice president of Front Doors, told attendees that search would not dominate the web in the

Couple of bits of Google product news this weekend. Firstly, at last some tangible evidence of an online presentations app from Google, one of the missing pieces so far in

Yesterday we ran a story about remarks made by Yahoo!'s VP of Front Doors, Tapan Bhat, at the Next Web conference in Amsterdam. Bhat said that the dominant web paradigm

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/software/Personalizing_Google'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; This week we're opening a file on Google's efforts towards personalization, a trend that has become very apparent in Google

The announcement last night of iGoogle (the new name for Google Personalized Homepage), Gadget Maker and other localization features, shows that Google is ramping up its personalization efforts once again.

Netflix, the popular online DVD rental service, just announced a number of new features that will allow users to personalize their Netflix homepage to a greater extent than currently possible.