Jesse Andrews
Flock, Book Burro
Greasemonkey
Userscripts
makes the web your playground.
Book Burro-greasemonkey example that he later made into an extension
browser 101
URLs
1st part resolves to IP address. your web browser makes a request from that IP to get a document
other people might have information about this URL
(cached version, older versions, tags etc…)
so you might also care about other bits of errata about URL
browsers
you can render the information from a web page any way we need to.
you can write more info about
-example:greasemonkey
idea:once page is loaded a script is executed to get more information about the content
add data, hide adds. -filters/corrects a few things.
scripts can enhance functionality. lets you tinker with it
example of user script. -
1. Shows where script should run.
2. If on certain page download info
de-xeni
boing boing gets risque
enables you to filter out a certain users postings
userscripts.org is a greasemonkey repository
(built using ruby on rails(take idea to execution in a couple of days if you know the tech))
you can go in and look at them and modify them. For example modify them to look at your library instead
On march 28 2005 a new version of greasemonkey was made available giving users the ability to make requests outside their local domains.
This change provided the catalyst to build bookburro
the bookburro extension tries to find an ISBN for a book on any page you are on and then
pops open window and searches a select group of databases to find prices.
His recommendation is to use screenscraping from sites that don’t yet have open data.
The next step he took was to integrate bookburro w/ worldcat
After bookburro he decided that he wanted to take these same principles to other projects.
He thought it would be a good idea to create a repository of libraries, and how to access their info–but then found out talis was doing this (silkworm)
A mashup of Book Burro w/ Book Mooch (p2p for books) added the ability to say *this is a book I want -or- * this is a book I am willing to trade.
He would love to hear new ideas or for vendors to work with him to make it easier to access their data.
FLOCK (newest release by the end of the year)(available on all platforms) Cardinal is carnality in release
based on firefox but with the following features:
-photo sharing
-blogs
-RSS
their goal is to make the other tasks you do on the web simple and fast.
Here is a rundown of some of the available functionalities:
1. flickr- button on browser toggle section of browser to make it a way to consume photos.
uploader button makes it easy to drag and drop. You can take a photo in the browser and drag and drop it to a text area and it converts to a link (integrate to photobucket as well)
2. Blogging-selection-BlogThis- to make blogpost. tries to make the correct sitelink. drag photo from bar into blogpost and it will show up. regular text area with advanced features. (personally he actually blogs in VI in the text editor and stores posts in txt file.
3, News reader bar. Integration w/ blog
These aren’t just firefox extensions, because they are trying to integrate all of these features into a comprehensive user environment.
*haven’t quite figured out how to integrate creative commons in a good way
4. Full text search. -searching for sites you have already been to. added full text search indexer. any time you visit any page it indexes that occurrence. you are linked to the history cache on your machine so that anytime you delete the history this information goes away. Yahoo is the only search provider currently with a dynamic feature.
5. del.icio.us as a way to share bookmarks. they have a bookmarklet that can be integrated into the firefox toolbar. Flock takes it one step further. keyword completion across feature set. upload things you choose to share and download. -so it works between your computer instances.
*search elsewhere features in upcoming versions
still working on how to build a web browser
