User talk:Eggfree

Design Topics

This page catalogs a set of design ideas and proposals for some current projects. I include a synopsis below each.

Bookmarking Various research leans to the idea that effective bookmark lists can be imputed and modified based on a users browsing habits then proposed, rather than requiring explicit actions. Thee are three steps in this bookmarking scheme: bookmark proposal, presentation, and editing.

Proposing bookmarks

Develop a proposal of candidate links

• 1) analyze browsing history to cluster page groups that are often browsed in sequence (for example I often view 'slashdot','nytimes',theinquirer' first thing in the morning)
• 2) score pages in the current history by frequency of visitation and length of stay.
• 3) aggregate page scores for pages in the same domain that cluster:
  • http://www.nytimes.com/pages/world/index.html,
  • http://www.nytimes.com,
  • http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/15/international/asia/15cnd-flu.html all aggregate to score nytimes.com.

Presenting the proposal
These three steps produce a set of likely bookmark candidates, and a set of groups. We can assume there is a list of existing bookmarks. We compare the existing bookmarks against our new proposal candidates. At the beginning of each browsing session we present these cadidates to the user for a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" (think tivo) thumbs up makes it on the permanent list in the suggested group. "thumbs down" eliminates it from consideration and resets scroing for the candidate. no action preserves the item on the proposal list for as long the analysis of browsing habit suggest it is valid.

• A candidate may be proposed when visiting the page, the same way warings and update notices are delivered via the yellow bar

• A candidate list may be proposed on a bookmarks page (home page) that may do some other fancy things (see bookmark presentation)