[Sigia-l] Sketchy Information

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"Richard Law" wrote:

> I've tried many of them and always return to Google as my
> standard search engine.

Because you haven't received the memo on the new Yahoo SE? :-)

> On a slight tangent, here's a look a couple ideas for navigating
> information. The first half of this video shows some interesting ideas
> on navigating down within a hierarchy of information. I thought it was
> interesting that they imply the user would still "point-and-click" to
> select information (like playing PONG!)

Yes, the notion is about as old as PONG too. :-) This is (first Xerox PARC)
and then Apple HotSauce from the mid '90s. You could fly around a version of
(the then leading web directory) Yahoo in HotSauce, pretty much like this
animation. Here's a zombie page for HotSauce:

<http://www.xspace.net/hotsauce/>

> http://66.216.122.95/_content/_reel/_movies/ispec.htm

That they used the Chicago/Charcoal typeface in this animation is a nice,
futuristically-nostalgic touch. :-)

Ziya
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