Hello Martin

I have to admit I have fallen in love with new York… Posted via blackberry

Super well done boys! Zecco which i am very proud to have been part of, just had a very good article covering them in Business Week

Have noticed that on several news sites, that you can “double” click on a word and they will load a thesaurus and match it up, the feature doesn’t get promoted anywhere from what i can see, but it’s beeing used at New york Times, and i saw it on another newspaper site the other day.

Sorry, this might not be so good in terms of independent news, but i can’t help to love it it’s like taguchi testing - AP ignoring paris hilton

    Sam Seaborn: [while discussing the importance of funding the “Super-Conductor Super-Collider” - a controversial scientific project that would cost billions:]
    Sen. Jack Enlow, D-IL: If we can only say what benefit is in it. No-one has been able to do that.
    Dr. Dalton Millgate: That’s because great achievement has no road map; and the X-Ray is pretty good, and so is penicillin, and neither were discovered with a practical objective in mind; and when the electron was discovered in 1897, it was useless; and now was have an entire world run by electronics. Hayden and Mozart never studied the classics. They couldn’t. They invented them.
    Sam Seaborn: Discovery.
    Dr. Dalton Millgate: What?
    Sam Seaborn: That’s the thing that you were… Discovery is what. That’s what this is use for. It’s for discovery !

Maybe i should apply for this one

Was just reading a NYT piece on how Arthur Schlesinger died yesterday, and i found the newspiece to be a bit to steep since i didn’t know enough about Mr Schlesinger, so an idea poped up.

Someone (You maybe!?) Should build a plugin for all browsers, that analyzes each page you browse (Or a set series of domains of your choosing) and then picks up what say the main 3 keywords for that page is.
For the selection of keywords in most cases a simple Keyword Density checked with stop words etc removed would do just fine.

Data for this page is:
Word - Instances - % of total words on page

1. article 24 2.37%
   
2. click 21 2.07%
   
3. schlesinger 17 1.68%

And for multiple words:

1. more articles 12 1.99%
2. new york 11 1.83%
3. york times 8 1.33%
4. arthur m 6 1%
5. white house 4 0.66%
6. arthur schlesinger 3 0.5%

As you can see both Article and Click could be described as stop words, or “common” words and could easily be removed.

Next step would be to match it up with wikipedia, you could hit Wikipedia with a query straight off, but since the Wikipedia database is available for download i would suggest that someone downloaded it and had a set domain for querying to guarantee fast response.

After this was done a button would appear somewhere in your toolbar or down right hand corner.

Revenue possibilities… well if you wanted to make money you could do a banner layover once the user hit the button to wikipedia… not saying that’s what you should do though.