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• Has Second Life Lived up to Expectations?

  Paul Gorman examines to what degree Second Life has justified the claims made for it by its evangelists with particular regard to education.

• International UPA 2010 Conference User Experience Design for the World

  Liza Zamboglou and Lorraine Paterson report on the Usability Professionals' Association's International Conference held in Munich, Germany in May 2010.

• Search Engines: Real-time Search

  Phil Bradley looks at the concept of real-time search and points to some of the functionality that users can and should expect to find when exploring these engines.

• Exploiting the Potential of Blogs and Social Networks

  Gill Ferrell reports on a one-day workshop about Blogs and Social Networks, held in Birmingham in November 2007.

• The Second Life of UK Academics

  John Kirriemuir introduces a series of studies investigating how the Second Life environment is being used in UK Higher and Further Education.

• Eduserv Foundation Symposium 2007: Virtual Worlds, Real Learning?

  Paul Walk reports on the Eduserv Foundation Symposium which took as its theme 'Virtual Worlds, Real Learning?' and which was primarily concerned with educational uses for Second Life.

• Accessibility: The Current Situation and New Directions

  Kevin Carey describes accessibility by disabled people to digital information systems across broadcasting, telecommunications and the Internet, looks into the future and makes recommendations.