LiveURLs - my best hack till date

[knutties]

Have you ever wanted to share a portion of a web page with others?  We've made it easier for you.  Toufeeq and I have been working on this Firefox extension project for sometime and now it is out for everyone to try and put to use.

The extension page at Firefox addons
The extension page at Mozdev
Screenshots

Comments

[mssnlayam]

I am speechless.

[mewpsych]

Awesome! Hearty congratulations!
May you rock more and more!

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[xuwenli1]

This should even work with other web browsers. Requiring Firefox-with-a-specific extension would lessen the chances of making your `LiveURLs`billig ugg stiefel popular among users.

[sunson]

Awesome. This is very very neat and I badly wanted this feature! :) You just did what I exactly had been looking for :)

Thanks!

[knutties]

Thanks, Suraj. I too badly needed this. Feels good to have created something that it is useful :)

[nearfar]

The client need not have the firefox extension installed. Instead you can send him a link like, http://www.liveurls.com/url/http://slashdot.org/foo/bar?3234...

That page, will show the actual page (slashdot, here) in an iframe within the parent page which contains the javascript that parses the iframe src, highlighting the text, etc..

This should even work with other web browsers. Requiring Firefox-with-a-specific extension would lessen the chances of making your `LiveURLs` popular among users.

Oh, btw, you can earn money through ads in liveurls.com. :)

[sunson]

Good idea!

Commercial

[toufeeq]

And ofcourse we hold no "commercial interests" to this idea.Feel free to turn into a service if you feel it's viable. :P
We would prefer to have it as a standard in all browsers.

Centralizing LiveURL's

[toufeeq]

When we first started off conceptualizing LiveURL's we didn't want a central authority dictating how content will have to be displayed and processed.Keeping the control at the client side and with the user is far more benefecial.Making it a peer-to-peer process is a much more "free" approach to solving the content sharing problem.The problem with a entity "dictating" what needs to be shown is that it get's too centralized.LiveURL's is aimed at de-centralization of content sharing.For a central entity type approach, you have the various annotation services available today(Diigo.com Annonzilla etc).

[sajith]

Impressive!

[knutties]

Thanks Sajith. Get your friends to install it (branding, branding :)). Only then you can use LiveURLs :)