Re: Shopping baskets (was: Session tracking)

Paul Francis (francis@cactus.slab.ntt.jp)
Fri, 21 Apr 1995 03:19:47 +0500

>
> So rather "solving" the problem by adding complicated statefulness
> to HTTP (a future nightmare, in my opinion), a better investment
> would be to think about how to rectify the Web's primitive model for
> linking and navigation of documents -- one of its key strategic
> weaknesses.
>

Please excuse this bit of self-promotion, but the
project a small group of us at NTT are working on
is related to this. We are looking at ways to
automatically form links (not HTML links per se,
but links none-the-less) for the purpose of efficient
searching and improved browsing. We hope to have
an alpha-version out for medium-scale experimentation
around September, and will be looking for people to
volunteer computer resources to run servers.

Please see:

http://www.ntt.jp/ntt/soft-labs/ingrid/overview.html

Thanks,

PF