| Web-Marker - Mark web pages and tell the world about it |
[Jun. 11th, 2006|10:32 pm] |
Thanks to all who responded to my LiveURLs love post. We've decided not to worry about the name of the URLs. They will remain LiveURLs. We are coming out with the first application based on LiveURLs. It is called Web-Marker, your marker pen for the web. Thanks a ton ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) mewpsych for the name. We owe you a treat. Toufeeq has a post on it here.
So what does Web-Marker let you do?
- You can mark portions of a document (when you mark, you get to see the markings)
- Multiple non-contiguous marks are supported. This was the first feature that everyone requested when we released LiveURLs. More markings mean longer LiveURLs (we are working to shorten it :))
- You can bookmark the marked document or copy the link to the marked document to the clipboard.
- You can navigate between marks on a page.
- You can clear all/individual marks from a document.
Web-Marker was first demo-ed at the www2006. It was received very well and we got some really good suggestions and use cases. More on that in another post.
Web-Marker was approved by Firefox addons today and is available here. Play around with it and leave your suggestions as comments at Web-Marker's homepage. You could also leave your rating of the extension at the site. It helps in evaluating the extension and is a good source of feedback for us. Also report any bugs you find at the mozdev bugs page.
Few caveats
- It does not support URLs generated with the LiveURLs extension.
- You would have to uninstall the LiveURLs extension for Web-Marker to work.
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| www2006 - Overall |
[Jun. 1st, 2006|09:30 am] |
www2006 was special in many ways.
- Met a lot of interesting and brilliant people
- Learnt a lot of new things
- Figured out what I should be doing for sometime to come
- Took a snap with the inventor of the World Wide Web
There was a lot of focus on Semantic Web and search related research.
Workshops/tutorials I attended
Brian and Ryan showed some really cool microformat applications. A demo is proof enough for one to understand how powerful semantic web documents, that can be processed by computer applications, are. For starters, try this for a demo:
XForms by Steve Pemberton was eye opening. Truly class stuff. I did not know about XForms before. Though it might take longer to get accepted and deployed, it is certainly the future of forms on the web.
Papers I attended
Being blissfully unaware of search engine technologies, I did not have a great time following the paper presentations. But most of them had interesting observations that anyone following stuff on the net could relate to.
For me "the person" of the conference was Bebo White. He was the most lovable person. The child-like enthusiasm he showed when he saw our poster was infectious. |
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| WWW2006 |
[May. 20th, 2006|02:05 pm] |
I will be off to Edinburgh, Scotland for a week to take part in The 15th International World Wide Web conference. toufeeq and I would be presenting our poster on LiveURLs. We have got some interesting applications of LiveURLs to be demo'ed there. More on them in later posts.
Any suggestions on places to visit around Edinburgh? Roselyn Chapel, where the Da Vinci code trail ends is on our list of to visit places. |
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| LiveURLs - my best hack till date |
[Apr. 19th, 2006|05:40 pm] |
Have you ever wanted to share a portion of a web page with others? We've made it easier for you. Toufeeq and I have been working on this Firefox extension project for sometime and now it is out for everyone to try and put to use.
The extension page at Firefox addons
The extension page at Mozdev
Screenshots
( LiveURLs - Behind the scenes )
The impatient ones please
- Install the Firefox extension from here.
- Select a portion of a web page and invoke the context menu (i.e. right click menu)
- Select either "Copy link to selected content" or "Copy position of selected content". This action copies the selected content as a URL to the clipboard.
- Open the LiveURL in a different tab/window of Firefox which has the same version of the LiveURLs extension installed.
- The browser should show the previously selected content highlighted. (If it does not work, report the bug with the LiveURL that did not work)
Note:
The sender and receiver of the LiveURL should have the same version of the LiveURL extension installed. Though fully functional, this is in its early stage of development. So backward compatibility of LiveURLs might not be supported i.e. there is no guarantee that LiveURLs generated with one version of the extension will work with another version.
This is one hack that I will be proud of, all my life. I hope you find it useful. |
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