Trying that one more time...
On Sep 5, 2008, at 3:44 AM, Kontra wrote:
I'm not entirely sure what that means, however the ability of
browsers to
bookmark is, by now, not only a very much accepted and expected
facility but
something that's lacking in desktop apps.
I supposed aliases, introduced in ***System 7*** in 1991 and used by
desktop apps to help do things like open last set of files instead of
hunting through the Finder, and symbolic links in UNIX which have been
around since the early 1980s, don't count somehow?
There's no inherent reason to eliminate bookmarking at all.
David was ***not*** saying that. In fact, he said something entirely
different.
Google goes a step further and, in the Chrome's Omni Box, precisely
blurs
the distinctions among URLs, URIs, domains, search-words, navigation
history, spelling correction, etc. It's an extremely clever hook they
provide that unifies their search, advertising and services
offerings like
no other company can or does. Couple that with user's personalized
tracking
history and you're looking at either pure evil or the pinnacle of
behavioral
targeting, depending on your sensitivity to complete loss of
privacy/anonimity.
I agree this feature is nice evolution and has a lot of potential for
some new ideas. We'll have to see where it goes. But the Omnibar does
not a platform make.
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Andrei Herasimchuk
Principal, Involution Studios
innovating the digital world
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