‘Rate this article’ now live on JNNP, STI and BJSM
Author: Claire Bower, Digital Comms Manager, @clairebower
User rating is a very common feature of websites, whether for films, books, washing machines or blog posts. What these user rating systems allow is a quick and easy survey of a community opinion. Despite the obvious advantages to busy readers trying to get to grips with a vast amount of literature, this simple system [...]
Widening the Social Web: Google +1 and Facebook ‘Like’
Author: Claire Bower, Digital Comms Manager, @clairebower
Google started rolling out the ‘+1′ recommend button across its own portfolio and third-party web sites just a day after Twitter unveiled its new ‘follow’ button. Both releases are being viewed as direct competitors to Facebook’s popular ‘like’ button. Central to an effort by companies to stake out their claim in the social-networking domain and [...]
