Wikipedia Suggest on Bon Echo
Been using Bon Echo on OSX for a couple hours now. One thing that’s really needed is a Google Suggest-like feature for Wikipedia in the search box.
While I’m not so keen on Google Suggest (too many results, mostly irrelevant to me), I think it’s a much needed feature for Wikipedia.
Unlike Google, Wikipedia has a finite keyword index. Wikipedia also struggles when you don’t enter the exact keyword. Put these two together, and it’s quite obvious that Wikipedia needs a Wikipedia Suggest, and Firefox should pick that up and put it in Bon Echo.
This being the LazyWeb, here are some resources for whomever is more desperate than I am ;-)
http://www.wikiwax.com/ A Wikipedia Suggest that functions similarly to Google Suggest.
Search and Suggest has a bit of info on how suggest works on Bon Echo.
Typo Ideas
A bunch of random ideas on improving Typo, that came during MKW1601 class. Cool lecturer, but somehow the subject makes me think of everything else during lecture.
Typo Visitor Plugins
- Comments with photos
- Who’s reading now
- Global profiles - read from blogspot, xanga, etc profiles
- Automatically link to visitor sites?
- Collect visitor properties
Geographic Tracking
- Detect visitor locations
- Collect visitor info
- Show as “Visitor from Guatemala”
- Local Map for travel photos, entries, visitors, etc.
Linking to friends
- Full separate page of links
- Last updated info (RSS?)
- Sparks for new entries past n days
- Randomize links (based on Bayesian content, on updates, on desperation)
Blog Metrics/Performance Dashboard
- Google bought the blog metrics thingy
- Feedburner. See Typo and Feedburner
- Stats page
- Allow visitors to rate the 7Cs
Branding the blogger
uh.. I have no idea what I was thinking when I made this heading
Mblog
- MMS to blog
- Random images sidebar plug
Encrypted Blogs
- Only an entry date shown, contents encrypted.
- Decrypt secrets key
- Invite readers to assign special codes (one-time?) to specific persons
Ok, this is the real big one that I’m really interested in working on.
There is much need for privacy on blogs. Too many friends of mine have said that there are things they want to say but are afraid to say on their blogs.
A simple encryption tool would have a single, simple purpose: Allow only people with the right keyword to decrypt and read a post.
More on this eventually ;)