Sunday, June 02, 2002

Disenchanted keeps the conversation going on evolving beyond simple referrer surfacing. The other problem with referrers is since that they only connect two pages at a time, the operator of one site can't see any further than a single hop. But there are some people who are unencumbered by this problem, and unfortunately they're using their technology to unravel your personal life and target advertisements at you. I've been pondering passing along the initial site visit to offsite travels as a url parameter for a few days using my on-exit url rewriting approach. This would take the A-B association to A-B-C. This simple extension in data representation goes a long way. Of course, we could be creating a communal XML store of communicades and using XLink/Query to stitch the web. Disenchanted's approach is more like the REST alternative to annotation. The second paragraph refers to the general unavailability of cross site scripting without resorting to dirty tricks.  "Mozilla" changes that and the tool described by disenchanted is only a scattering of hours of "RDF Hacking" away from realization -- and even incoporation into MozBlog. 1:58:30 PM    comment

There's some serious community impetus behind incoporating the LINK tag for RSS in weblogs. Mozilla has a link toolbar that's not quite complete. Alas, Google did not add the LINK tag to their site during the last 4 or so months of it being deployed in Mozilla -- if it had, the "site navigation bar" as it's called might be in 1.0 (note, next/prev links are in one of the experimental google toolbars). In any event, job well done! In less than a week, support for a new form of metadata was added in a standards aware fashion across hundreds of websites and a handful of publishing/aggregation tools. It will be interesting to see the future push and pull between the practicing community and the w3c's slew of standards. 11:23:10 AM    comment