Ryan Lackey writes:
I need to find some relatively widely deployed applications which have frequent user interactions (rapid clicking on links, from as large a population of links as possible, and also form filling and such).
(it should be pretty obvious what this is for)
It's not, really. Maybe some kind of cover traffic for an underlying hidden data stream? Or maybe you will create a client which mimics a human person, and sends information by choosing what to click on? Sounds like a pretty low-bandwidth channel.
I'd like:
0) *rapid*/frequent user interactions; fast clicking on things (like every second, no more than 5 seconds)
1) "sticky"...long interactions with a given site (on the order of hours) (also all links need to be under the same url/same server)
These two don't make much sense together: someone is going to sit there, interacting with a server for hours, clicking every second? That sounds more like a job than something people would do voluntarily. You're either going to need to accept a much lower click rate, or else a much shorter connection time. Okay, maybe one of the online fantasy games services like EverQuest? I hear people get addicted to those and spend hours on them, but I think they do a lot of typing rather than mouse clicks. Or one of the shoot-em-ups? Those probably use the mouse a lot more. They aren't really "web applications" though. Does it really have to be a web app?
So far, the best ideas: 1) Porn 2) Mailing lists with lots of internal links (next, reply, etc.) 3) Sites with search engines with lots of linked data (encyclopedia, etc.) 4) html games (or flash, maybe) -- either imagemaps, or just tables, things like chess, or puzzles, or whatever
Most of those won't satisfy your click rate and connect time goals.
I'd definitely appreciate any suggestions on possible web apps which meet these criteria; reply to lists or ryan@venona.com.
I'll post when it's ready.
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