You are going to see SmartLinks start appearing on my site. They are from AdaptiveBlue and are evolving rapidly into a really cool way to enhance the value of a link. For more on what a SmartLink is, check out the post from Alex Iskold titled BlueBlog » SmartLinks Primer: The Idea and the Technology. (<— Click on the little blue square to see a SmartLink in action.)
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I see not a blue square. Using the Safari 3 beta.
Hell yeah for the semantic web!
I just got done writing a long-winded post on R/WW about this very topic:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/pivots_of_the_web.php#c015586
@Michael,
If you mouse-over the link for a few seconds, the blue box appears.
@Michael again.
That was interesting. The link disappears from the front page at the end of page load, while viewing in Safari 3 beta -- but the link and the blue box are visible and clickable in the isolated posting page.
The SmartLinks JavaScript does not run until page fully loads. We are making sure that the content comes first, thats a best practice for a widget.
Alex
No blue box for me in Safari. Works great in Firefox, but I'm trying to unify into Safari because of the iPhone.
Only seems to use tagging, no text analytics. Cool, but would be much cooler if the smart links were a bit smarter and included the context of the post in addition to tags. Shows how far we need to go in this space...
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