Co-Links
Posted on:: February 14th, 2005
Alex Primo at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil and his research group have released a prototype of Co-Links. It allows readers to add links to any word on a page. A single word may have multiple links. The user can either go to one of the linked pages or see metadata about it. It’s a cool idea. You can try it here..
It’s available as open source software. [Technorati tags: colink hypertext]
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Jakob Nielsen calls a single word with multiple links “fat links”.
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20050103.html
It’ll probably catch on just enough for spammers and other parasites to have a field day.
Several of the links already contain references to porn and non-resolving URLs. In addition to delete, no-follow, and other future functions could work to keep this a useful and minimally polluted tool.
What about search engine indexation of the links? It appears that all links open in an pop-up javascript layer, where they are requested from the databased and showed by xmlhttprequest. This is so complicated and absolutely inacessible. I think there’s no need for more than one link per word: if there’s this need, one possible solution is to generate an alternative page with the different links and their respective comments (making the links much more acessible and indexable).
Yeah my work’s net nanny software’s already banning this URL
Links Colaborativos
“Os links associativos funcionam como palavras clicáveis dentro dos hipertextos, conectando um determinado texto a informações, dentro da mesma página ou outras presentes em outros sites. […] os links permanecem fechados em si, de acordo com sua
hey This Co-Links links site isn’t functioning or am I missing something? , the idea sounds interesting but i would be nice if one could test it online.
If it does it’s job as they say it does then it is based in the same principle as the snipsnap or vice versa.
if somebody knows about a site using it i would like to know.
http://www.anfesoft.net
andyx