Twitter is great for following and understanding this. @CDCemergency is the Center for Disease Control and what a great way to get the news straight from the swine's mouth, so so speak?
If you install Hyperwords for Firefox, you can select any text and either use the menu that pops-up when you select text, or simply type the keyboard shortcut 'g,g' (for Go/to Google top search result) and you are taken to the top search result. Incredibly useful when clicking on big brand names, names of companies and so on, when you expect there to be some 'home' page.
Have a look at www.interactivewords.org to see what it looks like.
The name does leave a lot to be desired though. 'I'm feeling lucky' does not really communicate that a click takes you straight to the top search result.
There is definitively a case for research into different ways to interact with and display text, which is why we started the Hyperwords Project for example.
However, it's a little hard to take this seriously as they don't even use the technique on their own website, it's just a demo there.
Eating your own dog cuisine, isn't that what it's all about?
There is of course a lot we can still do with the web. For starters, make all the text interactive, not just the special, hand-picked hyperlinks. By turning all the words on the web into hyperwords for example: http://www.hyperwords.net/ - not high tech, but again, there is a lot we can do to make the web more interactive and useful before we need to start changing it structurally.
Sure. There are three spatial dimensions and one time dimension. So we have at least four. But like you say, why not think of a dimension as 'something along which you can navigate or measure'?
Following a hyperlink can be thought of as navigating along an extra dimension right?
Turn all the words on the web into hyperwords and navigate along as many dimensions as you like: see your selection of text in dimensions of entries in references, in searches, on maps, in blogs or tags and so on.
If you can see a database organized by any criteria, such as by date or alphabetically, why not see any text on a web page by listings in different reference work, like Wikipedia? Why not see a quote listed by all the blogs it appears in?
Any variable, any view can be thought of as a dimension. And having the option to choose which one to navigate along is pretty useful dontchathink?
To say the obvious: If there is fraud with computer voting, no-one will know, that is the whole point. Therefore there won't be any 'computer problems'.
"Mozilla needs to incorporate tools like tagging or... [linking] to eBay's Skype calling service that will help keep friends connected. The idea being, the browser becomes more valuable the more your friends use it..."
Sounds a lot like Firefox with the Hyperwords extension:
The extension provides 24 Search engines, including for people, blogs and news. 14 References, including Wikippedia, dictionary and academic. Go via Google Lucky, URL and Skype. Copy text plain or with URL. Print page or selection. 8 Places to shop. Email immediately or via Gmail o Yahoo! Mail. 6 different taggers, with search. Blog with Blogger and WordPress. Look up maps, local time, weather and package tracking. 6 Different types of server information. 7 Language translations.
At a single click. Now also with Toolbar. All new! Shiny
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Twitter is great for following and understanding this. @CDCemergency is the Center for Disease Control and what a great way to get the news straight from the swine's mouth, so so speak?
GREAT sig QF! Emailed it to my friends. Thanks!
If you install Hyperwords for Firefox, you can select any text and either use the menu that pops-up when you select text, or simply type the keyboard shortcut 'g,g' (for Go/to Google top search result) and you are taken to the top search result. Incredibly useful when clicking on big brand names, names of companies and so on, when you expect there to be some 'home' page.
Have a look at www.interactivewords.org to see what it looks like.
The name does leave a lot to be desired though. 'I'm feeling lucky' does not really communicate that a click takes you straight to the top search result.
There is definitively a case for research into different ways to interact with and display text, which is why we started the Hyperwords Project for example. However, it's a little hard to take this seriously as they don't even use the technique on their own website, it's just a demo there. Eating your own dog cuisine, isn't that what it's all about?
Gets my vote. Nothing current has the gameplay freedom.
Great point!
There is of course a lot we can still do with the web. For starters, make all the text interactive, not just the special, hand-picked hyperlinks. By turning all the words on the web into hyperwords for example: http://www.hyperwords.net/ - not high tech, but again, there is a lot we can do to make the web more interactive and useful before we need to start changing it structurally.
Sure. There are three spatial dimensions and one time dimension. So we have at least four. But like you say, why not think of a dimension as 'something along which you can navigate or measure'?
Why restrict ourselves to three dimensions?
Following a hyperlink can be thought of as navigating along an extra dimension right?
Turn all the words on the web into hyperwords and navigate along as many dimensions as you like: see your selection of text in dimensions of entries in references, in searches, on maps, in blogs or tags and so on.
If you can see a database organized by any criteria, such as by date or alphabetically, why not see any text on a web page by listings in different reference work, like Wikipedia? Why not see a quote listed by all the blogs it appears in?
Any variable, any view can be thought of as a dimension. And having the option to choose which one to navigate along is pretty useful dontchathink?
http://www.hyperwords.net/
To say the obvious: If there is fraud with computer voting, no-one will know, that is the whole point. Therefore there won't be any 'computer problems'.
"Mozilla needs to incorporate tools like tagging or... [linking] to eBay's Skype calling service that will help keep friends connected. The idea being, the browser becomes more valuable the more your friends use it..."
Sounds a lot like Firefox with the Hyperwords extension:
The extension provides 24 Search engines, including for people, blogs and news. 14 References, including Wikippedia, dictionary and academic. Go via Google Lucky, URL and Skype. Copy text plain or with URL. Print page or selection. 8 Places to shop. Email immediately or via Gmail o Yahoo! Mail. 6 different taggers, with search. Blog with Blogger and WordPress. Look up maps, local time, weather and package tracking. 6 Different types of server information. 7 Language translations.
At a single click. Now also with Toolbar. All new! Shiny
http://www.hyperwords.net/
Of course, what's exiting is Metcalfe's law * Moore's law = the new net. It's not just bigger, it can do more. Hey, it's a law! :-)