Comments on: The Axis of Alteration: Greasemonkey, Aardvark, and Platypus http://www.nivi.com/blog/article/the-axis-of-alteration my personal blog Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:02:35 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: andufo.net http://www.nivi.com/blog/article/the-axis-of-alteration/comment-page-1#comment-194 andufo.net Sun, 10 Jul 2005 03:10:52 +0000 http://www.nivi.com/blog/article/aardvark-greasemonkey-and-platypus/#comment-194 <p><strong>GreaseMonkey+Platypus</strong></p> <p>Slo para usuarios frecuentes de Firefox, les presento: GreaseMonkey + Platypus, la pareja perfecta.</p> <p>Muchos de ustedes han de haber escuchado hablar de Greasemonkey, una extensin que permite instalar scripts que modifican un sitio Web especfico co...</p> GreaseMonkey+Platypus

Slo para usuarios frecuentes de Firefox, les presento: GreaseMonkey + Platypus, la pareja perfecta.

Muchos de ustedes han de haber escuchado hablar de Greasemonkey, una extensin que permite instalar scripts que modifican un sitio Web especfico co…

]]> By: eric prebys http://www.nivi.com/blog/article/the-axis-of-alteration/comment-page-1#comment-116 eric prebys Tue, 14 Jun 2005 22:09:27 +0000 http://www.nivi.com/blog/article/aardvark-greasemonkey-and-platypus/#comment-116 <p>I think another component of the axis will be Google Desktop (or some other desktop search service). These services have a goal of basically indexing everything that happens on your computer and making it available for nearly instant searching. This includes files on the machine, emails, web pages browsed, chat sessions, etc. Google Desktop has provided an API to add on additional things to search.</p> <p>Imagine the power of a browser session where statistically unusual text strings are grabbed from the site you are viewing and sent as searches to google desktop and then included in the page. When I'm looking at amazon and notice A Random Walk Down Wall Street, then on the page, i'll automatically see a link to nivi.com/blog where nivi has posted a review of the book. And I'll see an email that I got about a talk Malkiel is giving in a couple hours, etc.</p> I think another component of the axis will be Google Desktop (or some other desktop search service). These services have a goal of basically indexing everything that happens on your computer and making it available for nearly instant searching. This includes files on the machine, emails, web pages browsed, chat sessions, etc. Google Desktop has provided an API to add on additional things to search.

Imagine the power of a browser session where statistically unusual text strings are grabbed from the site you are viewing and sent as searches to google desktop and then included in the page. When I’m looking at amazon and notice A Random Walk Down Wall Street, then on the page, i’ll automatically see a link to nivi.com/blog where nivi has posted a review of the book. And I’ll see an email that I got about a talk Malkiel is giving in a couple hours, etc.

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