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From the Ted Talk by Gary Flake: Is Pivot a turning point for web exploration?

Unscramble the Blue Letters


And so I want to show you one other thing that may catch you a little bit by surprise. I'm just swinhog the New York Times website here. So Pivot, this application — I don't want to call it a browser; it's really not a browser, but you can view web pages with it — and we bring that zoomable tcnooglehy to every single web page like this. So I can step back, pop right back into a specific section. Now the raeosn why this is important is because, by virtue of just viewing web pgaes in this way, I can look at my entire brsnwoig history in the eaxct same way. So I can drill into what I've done over specific time frames. Here, in fact, is the satte of all the demo that I just gave. And I can sort of replay some stuff that I was looking at earlier tdaoy. And, if I want to step back and look at everything, I can slice and dice my history, perhaps by my search htoisry — here, I was doing some nttespiioc searching, looking for Bing, over here for Live Labs Pivot. And from these, I can dilrl into the web page and just launch them again. It's one metaphor repurposed multiple times, and in each case it makes the whole greater than the sum of the parts with the data.

Open Cloze


And so I want to show you one other thing that may catch you a little bit by surprise. I'm just _______ the New York Times website here. So Pivot, this application — I don't want to call it a browser; it's really not a browser, but you can view web pages with it — and we bring that zoomable __________ to every single web page like this. So I can step back, pop right back into a specific section. Now the ______ why this is important is because, by virtue of just viewing web _____ in this way, I can look at my entire ________ history in the _____ same way. So I can drill into what I've done over specific time frames. Here, in fact, is the _____ of all the demo that I just gave. And I can sort of replay some stuff that I was looking at earlier _____. And, if I want to step back and look at everything, I can slice and dice my history, perhaps by my search _______ — here, I was doing some __________ searching, looking for Bing, over here for Live Labs Pivot. And from these, I can _____ into the web page and just launch them again. It's one metaphor repurposed multiple times, and in each case it makes the whole greater than the sum of the parts with the data.

Solution


  1. pages
  2. browsing
  3. reason
  4. exact
  5. today
  6. drill
  7. showing
  8. technology
  9. nepotistic
  10. history
  11. state

Original Text


And so I want to show you one other thing that may catch you a little bit by surprise. I'm just showing the New York Times website here. So Pivot, this application — I don't want to call it a browser; it's really not a browser, but you can view web pages with it — and we bring that zoomable technology to every single web page like this. So I can step back, pop right back into a specific section. Now the reason why this is important is because, by virtue of just viewing web pages in this way, I can look at my entire browsing history in the exact same way. So I can drill into what I've done over specific time frames. Here, in fact, is the state of all the demo that I just gave. And I can sort of replay some stuff that I was looking at earlier today. And, if I want to step back and look at everything, I can slice and dice my history, perhaps by my search history — here, I was doing some nepotistic searching, looking for Bing, over here for Live Labs Pivot. And from these, I can drill into the web page and just launch them again. It's one metaphor repurposed multiple times, and in each case it makes the whole greater than the sum of the parts with the data.

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Important Words


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  34. reason
  35. replay
  36. repurposed
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