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Yesterday I got an email from Jeff Veen at Wired pointing me to the server that Netscape is running its What's Related? application on. This is the project they did with Alexa, and it's the back-end for the What's Related? feature in Netscape 4.5. I had a little time to kill, was looking for a diversion, so I sent a message to Netscape's server via script and I was blown away. It's XML! Yes it is. And why, oh why, didn't they tell anyone? (Or did I miss something?) Anyway, I wrote an app that talks to their server. It interfaces thru an HTML form, you enter the URL of a site, and I'll find out what's related, with a twist. The URL to the related site links back to the form, and I do a lookup on *that* site, allowing you to interactively walk their tree of relationships between sites. This is just a demonstration. I'm not trying to put an extra load on Netscape's server, I just want to be sure that people interested in building XML apps have a way to experience the XMLness of what Netscape has done, which is very interesting, for sure. Here's the link to my app: http://nirvana.userland.com/whatsRelated/ Hope you like it! Dave Winer UserLand Software PS: I'm caching the results on my server, so the second time a request is made for a specific site, I don't have to call Netscape. It just occurred to me that if their idea catches on, this caching service would be valuable to corporate web users. Interesting! Could this be synergy? -------------------------------------- http://www.userland.com/directory.html xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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