Thax - Wiki Development

Findability

Found this book Ambient Findability at Oreilly. Written by Peter Morville, who also wrote Information Architecture for the World Wide Web.

• Ambient Findability @ Semantic Studios
• Ambient Findability

Mysql fulltext indexing and searching
http://www.petefreitag.com/item/477.cfm

Finding stuff on the invisible web
http://www.lifehacker.com/software/search-engines/special-seek-and-ye-shall-find-128317.php

Ideas

Filesystem Tracker with smarts

Concept:

• Web site which serves up files from your corporate/personal hard drive
• creates sha1 hashes (for finding duplicates across filesystem)
• crawler
• Be able to search by file name, file type, size?, desc (if provided)

Want to be able to bolt something on top of an existing drive. Most organisations or people would already have existing directories

Features:

• knows about grouped file extensions (e.g. pictures are jpg, gif, png, etc)
• Tagging per file
• Tagging per directory (e.g. because it's music or a folder is for a given product)
• constantly updated via the crawler
• could talk to other sites to compare hashes (e.g. for multisite)