From: evan.cordes@UMICH.EDU
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 06:39:53 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: what's related to what's related
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From: "Bernard A. Galler" <galler@umich.edu>
Subject: Fwd: IP: Netscape's XML App -- or what is really What's Related
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Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 08:52:32 -0500

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>Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:23:37 GMT
>From: dwiner@well.com (DaveNet email)
>Subject: Netscape's XML App
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>>From Scripting News... It's DaveNet!
>Released on 10/24/98; 8:23:30 AM PST
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>
>  Yesterday I got an email from Jeff Veen at Wired pointing me to the
>  server that Netscape is running its What's Related? application on.
>  This server is part of the project they did with Alexa Internet, and
>  it's the back-end for the What's Related? feature in Netscape 4.5.
>
>  I had a little time to kill, was looking for a diversion, so I sent a
>  message to Netscape's server via script and I was blown away. It's
>  XML! Yes it is. And why, oh why, didn't they tell anyone? (Or did I miss
>  something?)
>
>  Anyway, I wrote an app that talks to their server. It interfaces thru
>  an HTML form. You enter the URL of a site, and I find out what's related,
>  with a twist. The URL to the related site links back to the form, and I do
>  a lookup on *that* site, allowing you to interactively walk their
>  tree of relationships.
>
>  This is just a demonstration. I want to be sure that people interested
>  in building XML apps have a way to experience the XMLness of what
>  Netscape has done, which is very interesting, for sure.
>
>  Here's the link to my app:
>
>  <http://nirvana.userland.com/whatsRelated/>
>
>  Hope you like it!
>
>  ***Absence makes the heart do what?
>
>  Oh baby, so sorry to be gone for so long.
>
>  Sometimes the most important thing is being heard.
>
>  And sometimes it's most important to say nothing.
>
>  For the last four weeks I haven't had much to say. I've been busy and
>  quiet and more productive than I can remember ever being. What am I
>  doing? Building cool servers and editors, of course!
>
>  Stay tuned...
>
>  Dave Winer
>
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Bernard A. Galler
E-mail:  galler@umich.edu
Fax: 734-668-9998