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[Date Added :
03/04/2010
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IBM Research has revealed a beta tool called CoScripter Reusable History, which documents a user's browsing activity in a format that can be shared and distributed in the future.
IBM is also positioning CoScripter as a knowledge management tool since the software could help a user to remember what they have done on the Web and have a record that could be shared with co-workers. In other words, CoScripter could be an easy way to document processes. CoScripter is only available for Firefox.
Jeffrey Nichols, part of the CoScripter team at IBM Research, says: "Our new tool records history at the level of interactions, such as clicking on a link or entering text into a form field, instead of the typical page-based model of traditional web history systems. With today's modern web sites, if I want to be able to navigate back to a page in the future, I often find that saving the URL is not sufficient. Instead, I need to remember the exact set of actions that took me to that page, which is exactly what CoScripter Reusable History does for me."
He continues: "The second, and even more important, answer is that CoScripter Reusable History makes it easy to share sequences of actions from your history with other users. The user would be able to review their history and figure out what he wanted to share. The ultimate goal would be to take these Web actions and ultimately develop a script that could automate processes. As for privacy settings the user could turn off recording and delete browsing sessions." |
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