Category Archives: Reviews

Not the only store on the block

May 14, 2010 – 10:01 am

Though Apple arguably achieved a significant first with the launch of its App Store in July 2008 it is certainly not the only company currently with their own App store (interestingly the word ‘App’, coined by Apple, was accepted into the Oxford English Dictionary as long ago as 1985).
Since its launch, the App Store has [...]

By Alex Blackman | Also posted in Mobile, Technology | Post a comment | 1 comment

Quality assurance testing your e-publishing website with Selenium

January 21, 2010 – 10:16 pm

As quality assurance assistant and junior developer for Semantico I spend a lot of time developing and implementing QA tests. Testing an e-publishing website can be time consuming.
Even a simple test of search functionality has several steps; go to the designated URL, log in, search, verify the search results, check hit highlighting, start an advanced [...]

By Nik Afentoulis | Also posted in Project Management, Technology | Post a comment | 6 comments

Searching for the upturn: notes from Online Information ‘09

December 7, 2009 – 6:25 pm

It’s always suspicious (to a jaundiced marketing person’s eye) when a show organiser chooses to place a large seated cafe area at the centre of the exhibition floor.
There were some noticeable absences at this year’s Online Information exhibition at Olympia – no doubt the result of crunch-inspired budget caution – and the air of an industry bracing [...]

By John Helmer | Also posted in Events, Online Publishing Market, Search, Technology | Post a comment | 1 comment

Library Journal’s LaGuardia gives Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology a solid ten

May 7, 2009 – 3:51 pm

We were highly gratified recently to receive a highly complimentary review of our work on behalf of Wiley-Blackwell for the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology Online (BESO) in Library Journal. This is an especially prized accolade since the reviewer Cheryl LaGuardia, Research Librarian for the Widener Library at Harvard University, is by her own admission not [...]

By John Helmer | Also posted in Technology | Post a comment | 0 comments

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