The Hyperwords Company Makes the Most Useful Tools on the Web Available in a Single Click; Wikipedia, Google, Yahoo!, Translations, Maps, Dictionaries, Share Prices, Shopping, Email, Blogs & More.LONDON -- The Hyperwords Company releases version 1.5 of its award-winning web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. enhancer. The Web has become the largest repository of knowledge and noise humanity has ever seen -- with well over 6 billion pages. How can we possibly make use of this much information without getting swamped? Our research group at University College London “UCL” redirects here. For other uses, see UCL (disambiguation). University College London, commonly known as UCL, is the oldest multi-faculty constituent college of the University of London, one of the two original founding colleges, and the first British looked at optimal strategies of online knowledge work. We found that an effective approach in getting to grips with such a large volume of data was to make the data more interactive. The result is the Hyperwords(TM) extension for Firefox. It makes all words on the web interactive. Users can select any word, or selection of words, and choose commands from an intuitive pop-up menu pop-up menu n (COMPUT) → menú m emergente pop-up menu n (COMPUT) → menu m inv a comparsa . Hyperwords(TM) commands include: looking a word up in Wikipedia, blogging about a paragraph, translating a single word or page, looking up addresses on web-based maps, searching for results using any of the major search engines and much, much more. "Hyperwords(TM) offers far greater degrees of flexible navigation allowing web surfers to go where they like," says Frode Hegland, 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. of The Hyperwords Company. "It also provides fuller interaction of websites, leading to deeper insights. This is not just about quick references." Today we are launching version 1.5 of Hyperwords(TM), which adds a powerful Toolbar A row or column of on-screen buttons used to activate functions in the application. Many toolbars are customizable, letting you add and delete buttons as required. Toolbars may be fixed in position or may float, which means they can be dragged to a more convenient location in the function, while in a month's time version 2.0 will be launched, featuring full user customizability, as well as Microsoft Internet Explorer See Internet Explorer. support. Hyperwords(TM) is free for personal use and is available for download from www.hyperwords.net. The Company The Hyperwords Company is a US company commercializing the work it carries out in London, with architectural programming performed in Russia. Hyperwords(TM) has been listed in PC World's "101 best freebies." Doug Engelbart (inventor of interactive computing In computer science, interactive computing refers to software which accepts input from humans — for example, data or commands. Interactive software includes most popular programs, such as word processors or spreadsheet applications. , including the mouse and word processing) who was the inspiration for the research, became senior partner in the project, joined by Vint Cerf (co-author of the Internet Protocol), Dave Farber (grandfather of the Internet, former member of the U.S. Presidential Advisory Committee of Information Technology), Bruce Horn (original Mac programmer), Joi Ito (Creative Commons, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, www.icann.org) A non-profit, international association founded in 1998 and incorporated in the U.S. It is the successor to IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority), which manages Internet addresses, domain names and the huge number & Technorati) and Ted Nelson (who among other things, coined the term 'hypertext'). Screenshots and other information available at www.hyperwords.net/demo.html |
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