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* or to provide contextual actions for identified content such as generating a new mail message from an hCard link. | * or to provide contextual actions for identified content such as generating a new mail message from an hCard link. | ||
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'''Increase the value and utility of the information individuals encounter and gather while using the Web''' | '''Increase the value and utility of the information individuals encounter and gather while using the Web''' | ||
* Improve the quality and quantity of the information that is automatically accumulated while a user is on the Web. | * Improve the quality and quantity of the information that is automatically accumulated while a user is on the Web. | ||
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* The browser already caches web page history, but we could extend this metaphor to include other types of tagged content such as [http://microformats.org/about/ microformats] (see above). | |||
* Improve the user's ability to expand or restrict what information is automatically accumulated by the browser. | |||
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* Provide an ability to for users to explicitly save and tag this information, similar to bookmarking. | |||
* Increase the value of this information by improving the tools for viewing, searching, manipulating, analyzing, and combining the information a user gathers. | * Increase the value of this information by improving the tools for viewing, searching, manipulating, analyzing, and combining the information a user gathers. | ||
* Further increase the value of this information improving the tools for sharing the information a user gathers, and for combining this information with other users' information. | * Further increase the value of this information improving the tools for sharing the information a user gathers, and for combining this information with other users' information. | ||
* Give developers new tools to extend the value, functionality, and utility of the user's information. | * Give developers new tools to extend the value, functionality, and utility of the user's information. | ||
* Allow users to easily sync their information between computers or devices. | * Allow users to easily sync their information between computers or devices. | ||