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Item ONLINE REVIEWS AND PRODUCT QUALITY IN THE WEB HOSTING INDUSTRY(2012-04-19) Haney, Arthur; Kohlhase, Janet; Jiu, Brett; Thornton, Rebecca A.Consumers purchasing Internet-based services from companies that lack physical presences have a unique problem. They do not have access to the information that they require in order to discern the quality of the company's products. In lieu of alternatives, they may turn to publicly available reviews from other consumers to aid them in coming to a decision regarding product quality. Using hedonic regression analysis, this study examines the potential for online reviews to function as a proxy for product quality. Estimating our initial hedonic model using OLS reveals that the number of negative reviews posted for a company is associated with decreased prices. Estimating a new hedonic model that controls for economies of scale provides the same conclusion, though the effect is slightly decreased. The results of our estimates provide statistical support of our initial hypothesis.Item The chimaera project: an online database of animal motions(2009-05-15) Gele, Julie KatherineDigital animators will save vast amounts of project time by starting with a completed skeleton and some base animations. This result can be accomplished with Web 2.0 technologies by creating a repository of skeletons and animations that any animator may use for free. While free Maya? skeletons currently exist on the Internet, the websites housing them have only brief features and functions for browsing and interacting with these files. None of these websites contain downloadable animations for the provided skeletons. The Chimaera Project improves the field of Web 2.0 sites offering free rigs by offering many new features and freedoms to the animation community. Users may upload and download Maya? skeletons, share comments and tips with each other, upload animations associated with the skeletons, and search or browse the skeletons in a variety of ways. The skeletons include descriptions and information provided by the creator and are categorized by class, order, and species. Users may access a freely provided script called ?zooXferAnim? to import and export animations into text files to be uploaded and downloaded on the website. Many animations per skeleton may be uploaded. The Chimaera Project extends the Web 2.0 community by creating an interactive resource for animators to contribute and share content in a better, more organized format than previously seen on the Internet.