Webvisions: Rethinking the link
Friday, May 21st, 2010
Ward Cunningham – from AboutUs
What is a link?
“something you click to take you somewhere”
“a relation to resources, possibly 0” – Ray Fielding
Wiki turns the zero link (red) as an invitation.
Blue – 1
Red – 0
Orange – 2+ (ambiguous, Portland OR vs Portland ME vs Portland Cement)
Social Jargon:
1) glossary of words.
2) using that word automagically links to it.
3) users learn words as they cross them.
4) words spread as they are used.
Disambiguated links use meta to track and color to show context.
Tracks word usage. Who used it first? How did if change?