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We have just put out the hooeey toolbar (beta) for Firefox 3 (Win, Mac and Linux). Please use it and let us have your feedback. Team hooeey

An interesting and a comprehensive post on how hooeey can help productivity

How To Record Browsing History For Productivity

Today, we beta-released a hooeey toolbar for Mac and Linux OSes. It is a big step towards building a browser-agnostic and a platform-agnostic web app that will help users re-purpose their browsing history.

Now, new or existing users can use hooeey to aggregate their browsing history, be it from a Windows, Mac or Linux PC—or from any or all of these platforms. For example, a user who uses a Mac at home and a Windows PC at work can seamlessly aggregate his browsing data.

We also made some changes to the hooeey toolbar  (V 2.5)

1. Toolbar  icons stay visible throughout
2. You can opt to stay logged into h! through the toolbar login icon
3. Message is displayed while your links are being uploaded to your h! account

We have made some changes which should help users get better visibility of their browsing.

1. All links are now grouped by domain. This makes it very easy for users to find their links. You also have the option to see your browsing history in a “Links” view by choosing the “Display” option
2. A single click lets you see all the links you have browsed within a domain
3. All links on hooeey now display the browsed timestamp to make it easier for the user to locate a link

4. All links are private by default and they can be shared with friends. The option to share with the public, as well as the public area for shared links, is now discontinued

5. A self-serve account deletion facility is now available in the “Settings” for users to delete their hooeey account if they wish to leave

Here is a link to a panel discussion where Josh Kopelman discusses the growing interest in the implicit web. In its simplest terms, implicit web refers to meaning that can be deduced by looking at patterns in a unified data agglomeration. It reminds one of how astronomers locate the position of a black hole (which of course, cannot be seen!) by observing the pattern and behaviour of planetary and celestial bodies in the vicinity of that black hole. So will this trend usher in primacy of heuristics over algorithms and methods?

As hooeey is  playing a part in helping users gather their browsing information which will be a crucial component of the implicit web, we eagerly await growing awareness of this trend.

More  from Josh’s own posting.

The who’s-who and the who’s-to-be of the web were all to be found at the Web 2.0 Expo that concluded a couple of weeks ago at San Francisco. The Expo brought together entrepreneurs, technologists, VCs and companies and this was reflected in the topics covered by various tracks and keynote addresses.

The various presentations can be found here. While a whole host of luminaries addressed the gathering, none was more entertaining than ‘Fake Steve Jobs’ aka Dan Lyons. See his keynote address here.