Monday, December 29, 2008

Web Site Jump Lists

Expanding on my “Super Tab Bar”, I’ve made some mockups of how Jump Lists (here called Shortcut Lists) would work.  By right-clicking on the favicon, the jump list comes up.

The beauty of them is that they’re fully configurable.

Intrinsically all web sites can display a list of starred/bookmarked pages, as well as recent pages (maybe this one should be off by default).  It should also be able to detect as RSS feed for a site and display that, too.

But like in the Digg.com example below, sites should also be able to program to their benefit.  This can be tailored to user accounts, as in listing pages dugg or submitted, and friends’ activity.  It could also merely be used to display feed-type material but perhaps tailored for the jump list.  That would of course require no log-in.

One could take this farther and create mini-extensions.  I’m thinking there’s already a Weather type applet that does this in IE8, but I might be mistaken.  Something like that would work well.

Other site-specific ideas I have include favorites on Youtube, Flickr, even SuicideGirls.  eMusic could display your most recent downloads or new arrivals.  Netflix could suggest movies for you and display your queue.  Gmail could show inbox entries.  A calendar application could be very useful.

It might even be possible to use some kind of infrastructure that allows the porting of widgets like those found on Netvibes and iGoogle.

The Big Edit 3 - Jump Lists

The Big Edit 4 - Editing Jump Lists

I realize how WIndows 7 inspired this all is, but it’s just too damn fun to think about.

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