闲谈对其他访客与WebRogue

您检查一个有趣的网页，例如这一个，例如，并且想要能聊天对此与其他访客对同一个站点。 根据计算机学家在先进的研究中心在撒丁岛，应用2005年最初开发的， WebRogue，能缩小您的真正存在网和其他用户之间的差距。 它在使能的研究原型和商业系统最近启发了新的功能，如果不网3.0，然后至少网2.5。

如此， WebRogue做了什么？ “理论基础在WebRogue之后- Firefox工具栏插入式-的确是简单的”，解释Alessandro Soro和同事， “浏览器和闲谈客户一起连接，并且，每次用户装载一个网页，他们得到看谁被联络到那个站点，并且可能开始一个端到端闲谈会议与其他用户”。

Soro和他的同事、Ivan Marcialis， Davide Carboni和Gavino Paddeu在真实世界解释应用可能允许用户聚集在站点利益附近，正发生冷却器和咖啡机器。 系统没有控制的是由站点的Web站点管理员并且不允许用户 耳语 (即。 互相传送私有信息)或 呼喊 (传送信息为了任何人能读)。 它也有另外的作用，例如冲浪与领导的小组把其他冲浪者带对其他站点和排队，有用为技术支持事例或谈话与图书管理员在一个真正图书馆或助理在一家真正商店。

据推测，您不读这页打印输出被递对您由同事。 在您已经赞赏情况下浏览器是最直接的互联网应用。 您在几秒钟内可以是在运作的以浏览器和发现信息，而和电子邮件客户端， 新闻读者或者立即信使节目，要求配置，报名参加并且登录。

然而，尽管这直接和希望网将提供人以真正会址，在整体网浏览(除更加明显地交互式站点之外象 Facebook)是您在您幽静做的几乎事。

有设法带来用户和建立社区的许多网站。 我为其中一个首先专家真正网社区- www.ChemWeb.com一样从前工作了-象1997年。 我们比化学皇家社会和美国化工社会有更多成员被汇集。 However, as with most of the communities that followed, the tools available to users are there because the owner of the website put them there. Obviously, Facebook applications are starting to change this, at least for users of that specific site. You cannot, of course, use Facebook apps, games, and such on another website.

WebRogue is different. It links your virtual presence on a website and other users browsing the same page. Originally, the researchers saw various applications of Webrogue from E-learning and training to technical support and real shopping in virtual places, as well as the afore-mentioned group surfing. “The goal of WebRogue was to enable the birth of online communities around websites of interest, allowing seamless exchange of opinions in a free, non-moderated manner between site visitors and between visitors and site owners,” the team adds.

The researchers’ focus has since shifted to P2P collaborative systems and multiuser interface designs. As such, this application now sits in the broader arena of virtual presence systems, since many features included in WebRogue have inspired analogous functionalities, both in research prototypes and commercial systems, the researchers say. You can find out more about virtual presence systems, including Webrogue and its successors here

More details of the Soro study can be found in the International Journal of Web Based Communities, 2007, 3, 448-459.