I'm just back from exploring one of the most extraordinary websites I've ever visited: Liquidinformation.org.
This site was created by Frode Hegland, a researcher at University College London Interaction Center, working with Mikhail Seliverstov, a programmer in Russia.
Their goal: turn every single word of every online text into a hyperword, a word you can click and then Google, look up in a dictionary, or do any number of other things with.
But don't waste your time here: visit the site and try the demo.
I tried the CNN one and then my own site, and I was absolutely blown away.
Awesome, jawdropping, you pick the word, there's no hyperbole possible here.
Amazing.
I learned of the site via Sarah Boxer's excellent New York Times article, which appeared on February 10.
FunFact: Hegland notes on the site that his mentor is Douglas Engelbart.
Who's Douglas Engelbart?
Only one of the legends of computing; among other things, he invented the computer mouse.
So big, I can't get over it, that's the power I saw unleashed in this demonstration.
Bring it.
Article comments
1 - mike g
Not to discount your excitment about this project but personally i don't see what all the fuss is about.
2 - Victor
It's a simplified version of
http://TuneText.com project
launched by Beloy a YEAR ago!
Unlike Liquidinformation, TuneText
is more ADVANCED and PRACTICAL:
The same Hypermenu is a fast client-based solution applicable to
Internet, CD-ROM, and even eBooks:
http://tunetext.com/readers.html
3 - Ernie
Technically, maybe.
The same "every word is hyperlink" implementation.
But Liquidinformation is groupware, while TuneText
a kind of PERSONALware!
Although with export/import and "Submit to groupware
server" functions.