:Web Application Usability

Marc Barrot showed this tool at the BlogTalk conference. It helps as a demonstration and looks cool with the single click to select and click again to edit, but I guess is cumbersome to use online. Showing the outlined data in different views is needed. Some views are 1 paned, 2 paned, 3 paned, presentation, jaguar finder views, windows explorer views. Also, the ouliners interface should give templates to organize different outlines. They help us to think differently about a topic, so certain views are more preferential to certain outlines. These views expand to fulfledged applications. So an exporter to all applications is required to help the process flow with out data duplication. But I hope Weboutliner will help in making outliners popular.

Web outliner …

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Paolo Valdemarin and Matt Mower lowered the barrier to add metadata on blogposts through ENT module for RSS. Joho, the blog asked the right question, “How can the barrier be removed?” Ans: By integrating the topics with serach words in google. So the bottom line is, create your own topic roll every time a new topic crosses your radar. Try adding meta data to your posts. If you are too lazy like everyone, just create the topic roll and create keywords for each topic and search your site or the web in google. Clicking on the links in the topic roll will take you to the posts in that topic and also show which other topics the post falls into. If you use google to get posts in a topic, you have to little bit of work to show the other topics in which a post falls. Also, put a link to the mega topic roll that adds all the topic rolls in each topic page. I believe this mega topc roll is k-collector. Searching the related URL in technorati, will also give more information on the topic.

K-Collector …

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is not up yet, but according to other posts, it tries to map a stories progress in time across different sites. It gives life to what touchgraph provides. A paper on thistool is here.

Blogospheremap …

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is another interesting tool which gives the blog rank and neighbours of a blog. One moreway to extend touchgraph.

Blogstreet …

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Jeremy Zawodny’s blog has an article and a discussion on pagerank being dead and google changing its algorithms. Also quotes “The act of Google trying to “understand” the web caused the web itself to change” If we use googles rank to order our topic results and for track backwhat are the effects it will have?

Google underperforming? …

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has a list of of books and nicereviews for them. Pattern language is one of them. “Dave Winer’s Radio Userland appeals to people because it follows the pattern of “Windows Overlooking Life”. ” What??? Anyway here is “All consuming“, the books bloggers read.

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