The execution was frankly abhorrent to say the least; and I personally couldn't care less about all that gimmicky 'social' cruft; but, having just watched a dem

The execution was frankly abhorrent to say the least; and I personally couldn't care less about all that gimmicky 'social' cruft; but, having just watched a demo of the thing [1], I must say I'm having a slight mini Xerox Parc-ish feeling about the map navigation stuff, which is after all a key part of Marchiori's original vision [2]. Paraphrasing an earlier reviewer [3], I feel this guy is definitely onto something here... [1] Starts at 0:51: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2Mxlb-Gqhs&t=0m51s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2Mxlb-Gqhs&t=0m51s [2] http://www.math.unipd.it/~massimo/2012/left-volunia http://www.math.unipd.it/~massimo/2012/left-volunia [3] http://searchengineland.com/volunia-a-social-search-engine-says-the-web-has-come-alive-110462 http://searchengineland.com/volunia-a-social-search-engine-s...