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I've been Thinking about M$'s new Smart Tags in IE 6.0 and Windows XP. Upon first thought, it appears another evil scheme designed to commercialize and rule the world... And believe me, it will. But, if implemented properly, it can add a new experience to the web. Imagine, for instance, that you're a web developer... You run a site with information on a topic or three. What if you could create your own smart tags, and someone who likes your site could then "subscribe" to your smart tags. Now, whenever someone runs across a word that you found interesting links to, instead of having to go to your page, they can find links directly from the page that you think they might be interested in(cuz you are too...) I wouldn't mind subscribing to something like a slashdot smarttag or something. As long as the option to turn off smart-tags that might be forced upon you is there, and you have the ability to add your own, I think it could be a tremendous innovation.... Too bad it's fucking proprietary.
Also, I've thought about Hypertext and how static it is. Even so called DHTML is non-interactive in the way I envision. Imagine the ability to highlight specific text within a document and bookmark that... Instead of having to deal with a whole page. And imagine being able to collect all these selections within a unified document... This document could be a sort of Topical Research Center or something. Whereby all the data a person is collecting on a topic can be readily accessed, along with the Reference URLs... The ability to append notes to this document should be allowed as well. Possibly even having a sort of smart-tag system where collaborators could append notes on a page, and cross-reference and mark up, in a sort of overlay document that would be accessible to the collaborators. I don't know exactly how it would all work, nor do i necessarily have the inclination to design or implement the thing(not that I even have the coding skills to put forth such an effort. Yes, I can code "hello world" in Basic, Pascal, C and C++, but I can't do much more than that. And certainly not in Windows or any such thing)
Just some ideas. What do you think?
I've been Thinking about M$'s new Smart Tags in IE 6.0 and Windows XP. Upon first thought, it appears another evil scheme designed to commercialize and rule the world... And believe me, it will. But, if implemented properly, it can add a new experience to the web. Imagine, for instance, that you're a web developer... You run a site with information on a topic or three. What if you could create your own smart tags, and someone who likes your site could then "subscribe" to your smart tags. Now, whenever someone runs across a word that you found interesting links to, instead of having to go to your page, they can find links directly from the page that you think they might be interested in(cuz you are too...) I wouldn't mind subscribing to something like a slashdot smarttag or something. As long as the option to turn off smart-tags that might be forced upon you is there, and you have the ability to add your own, I think it could be a tremendous innovation.... Too bad it's fucking proprietary.
Also, I've thought about Hypertext and how static it is. Even so called DHTML is non-interactive in the way I envision. Imagine the ability to highlight specific text within a document and bookmark that... Instead of having to deal with a whole page. And imagine being able to collect all these selections within a unified document... This document could be a sort of Topical Research Center or something. Whereby all the data a person is collecting on a topic can be readily accessed, along with the Reference URLs... The ability to append notes to this document should be allowed as well. Possibly even having a sort of smart-tag system where collaborators could append notes on a page, and cross-reference and mark up, in a sort of overlay document that would be accessible to the collaborators. I don't know exactly how it would all work, nor do i necessarily have the inclination to design or implement the thing(not that I even have the coding skills to put forth such an effort. Yes, I can code "hello world" in Basic, Pascal, C and C++, but I can't do much more than that. And certainly not in Windows or any such thing)
Just some ideas. What do you think?
