{"id":9555,"date":"2011-10-07T11:08:40","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T11:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/kikin_did_web_links_just_become_less_important.html"},"modified":"2011-10-07T11:08:40","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T11:08:40","slug":"kikin-did-web-links-just-become-less-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/apple\/kikin-did-web-links-just-become-less-important.html","title":{"rendered":"Kikin: Did Web Links Just Become Less Important?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new iPad browser from Kikin (<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/kikin-browser\/id453866150\">iPad link<\/a>) allows you to click on text to draw a circle around it- then it performs a web search in a window and pops up results allowing you to open the results in the foreground or background. By seeing a few of the top results and a snippet of each result beneath the web links, you can quickly get a feel for the most important and\/or latest news about any topic located on your web page.<\/p>\n<p>So as a writer, I wonder if I need to add as many web links &#8211; assuming of course that this browser and model for browsing becomes popular. I tried the browser with a bunch of sites like CNN and the Drudge Report and it worked well in most every case &#8211; detecting the important word in the center of the circle and eliminating extraneous search terms. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">I wasn&#8217;t able to get it to work correctly with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\">TMCnet<\/a> for some reason<\/span>. Update: I was contacted by the company to ask if they could help&#8230; I subsequently tried browsing TMCnet after they reached out and it is working fine with the browser. I am not sure what happened.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see in the examples below relating to the top two stories &#8211; you spot some text you want to learn more about&#8230; You touch it to get a circle, the text inside then highlights automatically and voila &#8211; a window shows up with results which you can click on.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-none\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/photo%203.PNG\" alt=\"photo 3.PNG\" width=\"448\" height=\"305\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Click on the next two screen shots to enlarge<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/photo%202.PNG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-none\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2011\/10\/photo 2-thumb-500x375-9924.png\" alt=\"photo 2.PNG\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/photo%204.PNG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-none\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2011\/10\/photo 4-thumb-500x375-9926.png\" alt=\"photo 4.PNG\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hat Tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/ipcarrier.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/how-ipad-browser-could-change-way-you.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FCxDEk+%28IP+Carrier%29\">Gary Kim<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new iPad browser from Kikin (iPad link) allows you to click on text to draw a circle around it- then it performs a web search in a window and pops up results allowing you to open the results in the foreground or background. By seeing a few of the top results and a snippet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,176],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}