Friday, November 6, 2009

evolution of hyperlinks

browsing through wikipedia, I wondered who adds all those links down towards the bottom of the page... they're generally pretty thorough, perhaps too much so as they often lead me down an hour's worth of tangential-path exploration during my research. But they're not as interesting or inspiring as Amazon's recommendation engine. Why not have dynamically defined links, based on the frequency with which a user, organization, or other entity uses two pages (and possibly make a hierarchical (info architecture)structure for the wiki based on the groups thereof, calculated through something resembling the matrix clustering method?)?
Disregarding for now the admirable complexity and sophistication of Amazon's suggestion engine(s), this idea essentially suggests making the recommendation method of finding info and experiences mundane, and then merging it with the existing model of 'menus'.

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