Jesse Andrews, creator of BookBurro & lead developer of Flock
1:15-2pm
Beyond Browsing
- About me
- programmer
- theoretical quantum computation
- web deveopment
- browser development
- not a librarian
- Greasemonkey & userscripts
- the web as your playgound
- Book Burro
- userscripts grow into extensions
- Flock
- extensions grow into browsers
- Browser 101: What are URLs
- www.infotoday.com resolves to IP address
- document returned bu that server is (not valid) HTML 4.01 transitional
- IP address might have information about the URL
- Google has info abt URL
- wayback machine may have info
- technorati may have info
- browsers use these resources to show render a representation of the url
- HTML has a recommendation
- Greasemonkey
- you provide the information about the URL
- created bu Aaron Boodman (now @ Google)
- simple idea
- update pages
- fix sites
- add relevancy (link to Yahoo from Google results)
- hide ads
- remove myspace music/backgrounds/styles
- new functionality
- new ideas
- Amazon Music Helper
- Free legal music
- lnk directly to the free downloadable MP3s
- de-xeni
- Boing Boing
- removes risque posts
- userscripts.org
- greasemonkey repository
- built in 2 nights in ruby on rails
- thousands of scripts
- millions of page views
- The day greasemonkey changed the internet
- make requests outside yor domain
- Book Burro
- remixing books
- open data – web services
- screen scraping for ISBN
- 300 (horrible) lines of JavaScript
- unintended uses – acquisitions
- Book Burro + Libraries
- Book Burro + World Cat
- Book Burro + Library Lookup
- John Udell
- Book Burro + Talis
- Silkworm Directory
- Book Burro + Book Mooch
- Find in online swap sites
- Future
- Side project
- ideas/requests? tell me.
- Flock
- open source social web browser built on firefox
- flickr
- advanced search
- rss reader
- blog editor
- full text search of history/bookmarks
- del.icio.us intergration
