BrowseUp, Inc. Releases Beta Version of Their Web Platform; New Software Allows Users to Create Links from Anywhere and Publish Content Directly to the Web.Business & Technology Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 18, 2001 BrowseUp, Inc. (www.browseup.com), an Internet technology company, has released a beta version A pre-shipping release of hardware or software that has gone through alpha test. A beta version of software is supposed to be very close to the final product, but, in practice, it is more a way of getting users to test the software in the first place under real conditions. of its new Web platform, available through its official Website. By downloading BrowseUp's software users will be able to create their own links to or from any Website for other users to follow. These links can be added to content objects such as images, text paragraphs, or whole pages. For example, if a user wants to make a link from a famous news site to his own Web page, it is as simple as dragging a picture from that news site and dropping it onto his own site. This creates a content level link that other users can follow. Users can also publish content on the Web in seconds using BrowseUp's Drag and Drop A graphical user interface (GUI) capability that lets you perform operations by moving the icon of an object with the mouse into another window or onto another icon. For example, files can be copied or moved by dragging them from one folder to another. functionality, linking files from the desktop to an existing object (picture, text, sound file, etc.) within any page on the Web. For example, if a user has created a document relevant to an article he has seen on the Web, simply dropping his document icon onto that on-line article will make his document available to viewers of that Web site. BrowseUp will automatically upload the user's desktop file to the Web and create a unique URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. thus effectively creating a new Website in seconds. "BrowseUp's applications were designed to improve the basic structure of the Web and organize knowledge in accordance with the associative as·so·ci·a·tive adj. 1. Of, characterized by, resulting from, or causing association. 2. Mathematics Independent of the grouping of elements. nature of the human mind. Our technology has the potential of finally turning the WWW into a two way medium where people make links from any page as they browse. This is what the original design of the Web was suppose to include. We are thrilled to allow the entire online community access to our technology in the testing period" said BrowseUp, Inc. President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Alon Schwartz. "We look forward to feedback from users in order to refine our product throughout this beta stage." About BrowseUp, Inc. BrowseUp, Inc. (www.browseup.com) is a technology company which has developed a platform to enable interactivity at the hyperlink level of the World Wide Web. BrowseUp's patent-pending oLink(sm) technology allows users to create links from within any existing Web page through a simple drag-and-drop process. BrowseUp's platform also enables users to instantaneously publish any content to the Web. These networks of links reside in distributed open-link servers, enabling the creation of highly-refined searching, information retrieval information retrieval Recovery of information, especially in a database stored in a computer. Two main approaches are matching words in the query against the database index (keyword searching) and traversing the database using hypertext or hypermedia links. and knowledge management applications. Founded in late 1999, BrowseUp is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. with corporate headquarters in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. and a research and development center in Hertzelia, Israel. |
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