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The Surf with a Stranger function could be offered by google, wikipedia, halfbakery or some other catholic and well visited web entity. On activation, you would receive the outputs being requested by someone else - a randomly chosed IP address currently using the site. Of course once you start following
with that person, if he clicks onto a site, then started clicking around in that site you would not see what they do - nor would you read text inputs etc. When the stranger returned to google you would once again see what he or she sees.
Your stranger would be good for a finite time period, then you would be switched to another IP address. The IP addresses are hidden, to avoid the possibility of stalking someone.
Baked, then splashed
http://www.aswellbu.../testsite/index.php
[normzone, Sep 21 2007]
Designing for Sociability in Shared Browsing (PDF)
https://research.mi...hared%20Browser.pdf
This Microsoft Research paper talks about similar stuff. Note the list of references at the end: there are papers on shared browsing at least a decade old. [krelnik, Sep 21 2007]
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Surfing is a personal thing. Tag team surfing is just wrong on so many levels. Even if you masked the text input, a stranger could read your email along with you in tandem and figure out enough about you to know more than you would want him to know. |
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No email viewing. Imagine the HB offered such a service. I could go along to various ideas you visit, so long as they were in the HB site. The HB has no power to show me your email. Likewise Google - if you clicked a link to a site that you found on a google search I would go to that site as well, but I would not be able to see what you did once you were there. Google would not know that either, and so could not show it to me. |
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<splashes playfully [bungston]> if you pissed in this water... |
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Research on WYSIWIS (What You See Is What I See) interfaces dates back to at least 1987. (See references in the linked paper). |
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That is interesting, [krelnik]. I wonder if there is some programming problem that prevents this from being implemented. |
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Of course this community thing is different from the remora-like thing I propose. |
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/if you pissed in this water/ - No! Or not just now, anyway. |
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There are two types of divers. Those that pee in their wetsuits, and those that lie about it. |
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I like ideas that involve strangers, they have the best candy. |
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One simple way to implement this is by providing a special browser, which contained two features:
1) It used a proxy server for all requests. This technology already exists.
2) The proxy server is hosted on the buddy's machine. The buddy's machine display's the response, too. |
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Should be relatively simple to implement, and won't double bandwidth usage like other solutions do. |
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Maybe let people chat with others that did similar searches? |
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If I am searching for an answer... why would I want to chat with people that also don't know the answer? |
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//If I am searching for an answer... why would I want to chat with people that also don't know the answer?//
If you don't know the answer to that then you are definitely at the wrong website. |
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Overcoming all the objections: How about "now viewing" - like on YouTube? |
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