I was snooping around at some financial websites when I see quite a lot of useful tooltips. Some tooltips point to quotes, while other tooltips point to real time graphs. I was wondering… maybe we can provide a web service that can allow people to very easily get such data… and another service which integrates these data sources to display meaningful tooltips.
So we have some people that keep scraping some online websites like stock prices, wikipedia, online dictionary etc… to have all the right data sources….
And from there… allow people to create powerful tooltips by just including some javascript file… which will pull data from such sources and wrap it up nicely in charts, graphs, etc… i.e. allow a normal website to have more meaningful tooltip functionalities.
So many times, i have linked content on my blog to wikipedia. Why can’t I just install a blog module to programmatically link my content to relevant info in wikipedia. We can also pull the first paragraph of these wikipedia articles to be displayed in a tooltip!
—- 8 Mar 2008 —-
Chanced upon some other guy who has kind of implemented this crazy tooltip idea. Only thing is… they have only advertisement on the tooltip… I mean.. who will actually click on something like this? Surely they could provide a more insightful tooltip, before pointing it to advertisement?
.. I think Internet is always WIN-WIN. A 2 way street….
Cool! Having a tooltip that auto integrates with advertising platforms like Google Adsense will probably improve contextual click-throughs and make everybody more money
Is there anyone doing it yet?
Hmm… sounds interesting… but cannot pure ads right? Definitely, should have s snippet of small description from wikipedia?
Actually, I believe there are some software/plugins that are already doing it. Reason is, for some website, when i click on the link, it actually goes to some commercial websites. I think it is quite hard for me to understand why people will want to do that, unless there are some commercial reasons…
Actually, there are a lot of open source systems, especially in PHP for blogs and CMS sites (basically millions…) These systems support some kind of plugin architecture. Maybe we can give them a plugin that will immediately monetise their content,
i.e. keywords will be highlighted such that when they mouse over, they will see a wikipedia definition with adsense…. So immediately, the blogs will have another way of monetising the contents. Actually such things already happen for Google Adsense. Did a simple search “google adsense wordpress” and came out with this:
http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2006/11/10-best-wordpress-plugins-for-google-adsense/
Not 1 but 10 plugins for Wordpress!!! Man.. the power of open source…