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Comment by dhbradshaw | Hacker News Reader

You might have a web browser that allows the user to assign pseudonyms to websites. A user could have the word "news" mapped to "news.ycombinator.com" for his browser. If such a browser collected pseudonyms from enough people, then the pseudonyms applied to each site could start to have importance and make it easy to give an intelligent guess on what the user might want. I guess the idea is to apply del.icio.us type information to the url bar.

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That is an interesting idea. It sounds kind of like a user-driven pagerank concept. Since the mappings would be different for everyone (most of the population would not map 'news' to 'news.ycombinator.com') could even introduce a recommendation system where your unmapped pseudonyms came from users whose pseudonym mappings were most like yours.

Like a mix of pet names and a Levien trust metric.

http://www.erights.org/elib/capability/pnml.html http://www.levien.com/free/tmetric-HOWTO.html

oddly enough, i have news.yc mapped to this site...and /. to slashdot, proggit to..proggit, trac for the trac site of one of my projects, gmail for gmail, g for google and so on thanks to a convenient Safari addon called Saft. :)

The problem with the group version of this is that while people here may map "news" to "news.ycombinator.com", someone else might map it to cnn or news.google.com or drudge report or any other news site. it would be inconvenient.

(so I guess what I mean is that that's a sweet idea, but it needs to be able to be overridden by the end user.)

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