Browser as Orchestrator

gsandler writes Here is a discussion by Infoworld columnist Jon Udell about his LibraryLookup project."It’s been a busy week for my LibraryLookup project, which first launched in December 2002. In its original and still most widely deployed incarnation, LibraryLookup is a JavaScript bookmarklet that connects an Amazon book page to the corresponding record in a library catalog. The success of this technique got me thinking about themes I’ve pursued ever since… LibraryLookup’s failures were equally instructive. As are other kinds of Web apps, library catalogs weren’t (and mostly still aren’t) designed for this kind of integration."”