On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 10:39 AM, rysiek <[1]rysiek@hackerspace.pl>
   wrote:

     Dnia czwartek, 2 stycznia 2014 13:04:17 Sean Lynch pisze:

   > On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 3:46 PM, James A. Donald
   <[2]jamesd@echeque.com> wrote:
   > > As a matter of fact, it still does work.
   >
   > It works far less, though, since most people expect others to rely on
   > search engines, so they don't bother to link anymore.
   >
   > Here's a thought: browser extension that stores your "personal" web
   index,
   > and gives you a typeahead menu when you write about concepts in your
   index,
   > prompting you to convert phrases to links. Like the way Facebook
   always
   > wants to convert the names of people and pages to tags. Even if it
   were
   > just primed with Wikipedia, that would drastically reduce the amount
   of
   > Google searching people need to do when reading stuff you write.

     In Firefox it's called "The Awesome Bar", and it sifts through your
     history
     and bookmarks (I bookmark a lot, and tag these pretty exactly, which
     helps
     immensely).

   I'm talking about anytime you type into text boxes. The goal of this
   proposal was to return to the hypertextual nature of the web in order
   to reduce our dependence on centralized indexes. However, I find your
   proposal to improve the utility of the AwesomeBar interesting.

     The downside, of course, is that it works only for links that I have
     already
     visited.
     So here's the idea: sharing bookmark tags and links with each other,
     via some
     extention for example, and making "The Awesome Bar" (damn, I hate
     that name)
     sift through bookmarks/tags of people in your "network" (what that
     means would
     have to be defined, but as Mozilla Sync can already store bookmarks,
     the data
     can already be on a server, just use it).

   An even simpler proposal: assuming the AwesomeBar doesn't already
   include live bookmarks in its autocomplete functionality, add it. Then
   anyone can simply publish their bookmarks via RSS and anyone else can
   import them. Then someone can just add functionality to create live
   bookmarks that pull signed and possibly encrypted (with
   Ed25519/Curve25519 of course) RSS feeds from a DHT.

References

   1. mailto:rysiek@hackerspace.pl
   2. mailto:jamesd@echeque.com