yet another search tool to find archived internet pages by university of washington and ¿adobe?

interacting with the ephemeral web. watch the video. worthwhile.

it's not just seeing the updates of a site, it's also about combining data in a nice, handy visualized way.

With Zoetrope, one can explore past versions of entire pages or place lenses on any part of a webpage to scan backwards through time (e.g., to see all previous top headlines on CNN’s page). Lenses can be filtered with keyword and other queries or bound together to explore correlated historical data ... ... The left browser window shows a webpage for Seattle traffic conditions. A person draws a lens on the region of interest (the bridges crossing Lake Washington) and specifies a temporal filter, selecting only content fetched between 6-7pm (i.e., 18-19 in 24 hour format). The browser window on the right shows the resulting lens, in purple, with tick marks on top indicating each instance of 6pm (the page is faded in the figure to emphasize the lens). Below the browser windows we show the Zoetrope transform and filter pipeline that enable this interaction ... | acm paper, subscription, sorry

have ot look into document object model, dom and also the piccolo library.

another search/content tool should be online tomorrow, europeana.

is very ambitious with 1 hour grabs but an interesting try in user interface anyway. casual research. i love it.

funny thing, europeana crashed soon after launch. "We are doing our best to reopen Europeana.eu in a more robust version."

is great.

I wanted to build something like it (albeit on a much smaller scale) back in 2001 ... but that's as far as I got.