http://skizz.biz/blog/2002/10/17/wikify/ Chris Stevenson's blog Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:20:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://skizz.biz/blog/2002/10/17/wikify/#comment-5 Ken Meltsner Fri, 18 Oct 2002 22:55:00 +0000 http://skizz.biz/blog/2002/10/17/wikify/#comment-5 Multicosm/Active Navigation has a feature like this; essentially a smart set of search expressions for annotating web content to link up to catalog pages, dictionaries, etc. The InfoLab (Hammond et al. at Northwestern) had similar add-on for Word called Watson. A simpler solution is in a place at Infoworld and other trade rags. It appears to have auto-inserted links for most industry jargon. I've tried writing this sort of add-on, and it's not easy for arbitrary content. It can also get annoying to see links all over the place -- some sort of "annotate the first occurrence in the paragraph" feature would be nice. refs: <a href="http://www.activenavigation.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.activenavigation.com</a> An Infoworld "klink" (KnowledgeLink) for "wireless" <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/klink/wireless/wireless.html?w=wireless" rel="nofollow">http://www.infoworld.com/klink/wireless/wireless.html?w=wireless</a> Multicosm/Active Navigation has a feature like this; essentially a smart set of search expressions for annotating web content to link up to catalog pages, dictionaries, etc. The InfoLab (Hammond et al. at Northwestern) had similar add-on for Word called Watson.
A simpler solution is in a place at Infoworld and other trade rags. It appears to have auto-inserted links for most industry jargon.
I’ve tried writing this sort of add-on, and it’s not easy for arbitrary content. It can also get annoying to see links all over the place — some sort of “annotate the first occurrence in the paragraph” feature would be nice.
refs:
http://www.activenavigation.com
An Infoworld “klink” (KnowledgeLink) for “wireless”
http://www.infoworld.com/klink/wireless/wireless.html?w=wireless

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