Posts with keyword: structured+browsing

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Context Automation

Tue Feb 17 09:36:00 2009

Judith Burton has written a good piece on context automation and what we're doing at Kynetx. She says: When browsing the Internet, each web site encounter throughout the browsing episode is a separate or ad hoc experience. There is no thread or connection from one site to another except in the user's mind. The user must hold the context of the browsing episode outside of each web site encounter. From Context AutomationReferenced Tue Feb 17 2009 09:30:53 GMT-0700 (MST) And then later: To create a context across multiple sites, an abstraction layer may be employed that is capable of
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More on Context Automation, Privacy, and Kynetx Business Models

Mon Feb 9 13:22:00 2009

Joe Andrieu posted a response to the white paper I released last week. I'm grateful that Joe would take the time necessary to read the paper in depth and offer a long, well-thought out, and helpful set of questions and critique. From his article it's clear to me that Joe understands the problem space well and has a firm grasp on what Kynetx is doing there. Joe raises a number of questions and points that I'd like to respond to. First, Joe asks who the target developers are: Web sites or third party services. Or both? Our primary offering
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The Advent of Next Generation Browsing

Wed Feb 4 19:44:00 2009

Today I'm releasing the first of a series of white papers on Kynetx and what it's trying to accomplish: The Advent of Next Generation Browsing (PDF). I introduce the problem in the first few paragraphs like so: We are mired in a tangle of architectural legacies that make today's Web browsing experience uncomfortable, confusing, and tiresome for many users. In particular, the lack of Web site independent identity has hampered the ability of the browser to effectively intermediate the Web on the user's behalf. But change is coming and we are about to witness a significant improvement in the
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Bring You Own Context

Fri Nov 28 12:20:00 2008

Om Malik writes about the recent terrorist attacks in India and the torrent of information on Twitter. He says: Despite the tremendous volume of information --- and its immediacy --- coming from Mumbai via Twitter, getting context about the situation has been a struggle. While a few people have been tweeting firsthand accounts, much of the information has been re-tweets or just rambling, reaction-based tweets. Maybe I was overcome with emotion, but the sheer volume of tweets and lack of clarity only fed my frustration with Twitter. (I'm sure it's the same kind of frustration people
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