In thinking about how the internet could be represented in more spatial terms rather than as just flat pages, I arrived at this. In brief, each individual's browsing preferences make up their "webspace", which can be thought of as the collected places one frequents on the web. Each individual is represented with their own plane, and these can be navigated side to side or flipped through. Each plane presents content extracted from certain websites, as chosen according to preference. (To put it in most basic terms, it is a side-scrolling RSS reader, although that was not the direct intention.) Each "plane" is ideally supposed to be customizable its user, much along the lines of the iGoogle homepage. What I built is really a prototype for what would be best executed as a browser based applet or browser add-on.

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