Piggy Bank is an extension to the Firefox web browser that turns it into a “Semantic Web browser”, letting you make use of existing information on the Web in more useful and flexible ways. Some screen shots demonstrating Piggy Bank are below :
What can I do with this?
Combine information from several web sites and browse it all together:
- see where coffee shops are located relative to restaurants and theatres,
* find schools and subway stations in the neighborhoods of apartments for rent,
* learn how progress has been made in a research field by chronologically sorting scientific papers, industrial product releases, news articles, etc., collected from various sources.
- Browse and search through an existing web site in better ways than the site allows you to.
- Save information you have found on the Web, not as bookmarks but as full “database” records that can later be sorted and searched by any attribute they carry.
- Tag each item you save with several relevant keywords rather than filing it into one single bookmark folder.
- Share the information you have saved by publishing it onto a Semantic Bank with just one mouse-click.
- Do all that, and more, right inside your current, familiar Web browser.
This is an extremely well documented and organized project. There are detailed "how-tos" for both users and developers as well as opportunities to join a mailing list and licensing information for use.
1 comment:
This thing is a totally sweet must-have example of what web 2.0 can deliver. The broader Simile project is also worth looking into.
There are some minor performance issues that you may run into if you heavily use tabs. It sounds like the people developing this thing should have a solution within a week or so. Therefore, you absolutely should not let this stop you from falling in love.
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