Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Smart Firefox plugin gives a taste of Web 3.0


The wise have long talked about the "semantic web" or "web 3.0" but the vision is lagging, as you know after the fact. And perhaps many of the things which is cool by the vision can be implemented relatively simply, instead of complete re-design of existing websites.


A clever little program that gives you a bit of future browsing is Firefox plugin SimilarWeb which allows the user to see which sites other users feel offers something of the same major as the website you look at in the browser window.


The program can be configured either to display a small selection of thumbnails from the other side of the left-or right column, or display a longer list of URLs without images. You can also completely remove the program from the columns, and only access the list of pages in the browser's taskbar, if you think it turns a little too much, or just use it once in between.




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