[topicmapmail] use of topic maps in bookmarklets?

[Robert Cerny]

Hi Stuart,

On Jun 21, 2009, at 9:46 PM, stuart yeates wrote:

> I've been pondering the place of topic maps in a web 2.0 world.
>
> One of the things that is currently fashionable is a facility to allow
> users to add pages from your website into their favourite social
> networking tool du jour.
>
> Most of these seem to work by submitting the URL and possibly some  
> other
> metadata (title, summary, etc) to the site. Many sites then scrape  
> extra
> information (particularly thumbnails, etc) to enable a more complete /
> user-friendly / eye-catching display.
>
> My question is whether there are any sites that use topic maps for any
> of this?
>
> I'm aware of the bookmarklets at
> http://fuzzzy.com/help/addBookmarksFaster/ (which seem to be currently
> broken for me), but this doesn't seem to allow users to provide  
> PSIDs or
> anything.

Topincs uses bookmarklets to allow topic map creation while surfing.  
Here are two screencasts which show how it works:
http://www.cerny-online.com/topincs/screencasts/tools-create-a-topic- 
in-wiki
http://www.cerny-online.com/topincs/screencasts/tools-create-an- 
occurrence

A list of all Topincs tools (aka bookmarklets) is here:
http://www.topincs.com/topincs/36

I am considering to add a tool that allows to create a topic with the  
url of the current page as a subject identifier:
http://www.topincs.com/issues/448

Kind regards,

Robert Cerny