Internet GPS: A new navigation system
Justin.King November 17th, 2008
I use the Personal Brain for a lot of my brainstorming. It is so easy to use, and really keeps all my information so accessible and so natural to the way my brain happens to process data and information. Here is an example of a brain I use to show people how to use Personal Brain.
I recently posted on needing a GPS system for the internet. This is the first of many thoughts around navigating the internet, and more importantly being able to store information a little more logical from the internet.
Here is my idea for how I would like to navigate a web site. This is a simple representation of the B2BRelevance.com site home page header.
When you click on any link, the focus is on the page you have selected like this:
A couple of points:
- Navigation is not linear or hierarchical, it is relational. Therefore when I am on a page, I would like to see the relationships between data and pieces of information. I would like to know where I came from, and where I can go on the site
- The path that I have traveled thus far on the site could be highlighted. I could “see” the path highlighted and even go back on the path that I have traveled so far. Most importantly, I want the ability to save the whole or part of the path I have traveled to my own repository and draw my own relationships between information from this path and other information that I already have.
- I would like to see the author of the information on the page, and see who referred me to that information – was it Google, Twitter, another Blog? Who are they? And Why did they send me here? Maybe it’s relevant, maybe it’s not. In addition, I want to be able to relate ideas, and content to people. People to organizations, people to people, organizations to organizations and all of this to content. I want it at my fingertips, and I want to be able to navigate it fast.
Wishful thinking?
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