A web proxy Private Web that layers a Wi Ki namespace and auto-linking over non-wiki browser-readable pages, e.g EMail, other websites?
what if you read a Wi Ki through a WikiProxy?
and what if you're reading a non-wiki page, but it has a Wiki Word in it which is already linked to something?
- in both cases the code has to be smart enough not to link a string that's (a) part of a tag, or (b) between href tags. (Other cases?)
As with Wiki Mail, deciding which namespace to support would be a killer.
ah, think like Sister Sites - support a bunch of them!
Perhaps this would make sense within a more enclosed environment, e.g. a given team's Collaboration Ware bundle... Which would also make sense in that a group could internally agree to use Wiki Word styling in all contexts (and they would all be familiar with their shared namespace), not just in the Team Wiki.
instead of wanting a Software Forge that included an Issue Tracker Wiki, integrated Version Control System viewer, Email List, etc., you could have separate web-based services read via WikiProxy.
More general Name Space proxying: IntComm:LocalNameServer
Some more general Proxy Server tie-ins:
Hmm, how does this relate to Annotation Systems?
Hmm how about add Purple Numbers? (Wouldn't do anyone else any good if it's a local Proxy Server, but if public/shared...)
And you could log what you're reading to a Personal Web Archive. And/or you could publish your "trail" to your Personal Web ...
And how about Back Link-s across all (your) Sister Sites?
(Somehow, this reminds me of Happy Net Box, though that seems more like a PIM/Object Browser.)