Here's more food for thought:
http://memex.org/meme3-01.html
http://msp.sfsu.edu/Lectureseries/archive96/engelbart.html
Jack Park wrote:
> Well, the plot thickens...This
> paperhttp://www.dlib.org/dlib/june96/hearst/06hearst.htmltalks about a
> range of user interfaces regarding information retrieval. Much food
> for thought here.
>
> From:Bill Bearden
> Speaking of navigating the WWW...The folks that brought you
> www.thebrain.com have recently brought up a new site:
> www.webbrain.com. I fooled around with it the other day.One
> thing I like: it gives you links before you get to the end
> of the tree. It doesn't do this at every level, but it does
> it fairly often. For instance, you may not have to navigate
> all the way through WebBrain->Games->Board
> Games->Alphabetical Listing->C->Chess to find a link that
> might give you information on the history of chess. A
> "history of games" site appears in the bottom half of the
> screen at the Games level. And this link points to a site
> that does contain a brief but interesting history of
> chess.Another thing I like is that it gives you a little
> access to the level from which you came. It appears that it
> caches the categories from the previous level as you can
> scroll through a list of them. It is a graphical 2.5D
> (almost 3D) navigation system.What I would like to see is
> more functionality on the "mouse over". I think it should
> display a description of the category or allow a quick peek
> at the level below.
>
>
> I don't know about WebNav but there's
> another Java applet that does exist. It
> is an on-going IBM project called
> Mappucino:
> http://www.ibm.com/java/mapuccino/index.html.
> Another similar product (commercial this
> time) is Inxight SiteLens:
> http://www.inxight.com. Both of them
> parse a site and display the site's
> organization as a graphical map that
> users can navigate through. Gil
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