The Auricle

If you've ever bought something from Amazon.com you will probably have noticed how personalised your interactions can become, e.g. 'customers who bought book abc also bought similar books xyz'. For some people, the Holy Grail of e-learning is a fully personalised virtual learning environment. Whilst we're waiting for this to become ubiquitous there are a couple of interesting examples you should visit. Stephen Downes' OLDaily is singing the praises of Memigo. Memigo recommends news articles you will be interested in based on your ratings and those of other users that are similar to you. Downes suggests this is the future of online content evaluation, not peer review, not gateways. Have a look and decide for yourself. The same development team also offer another personalised news service called Findory.