As I move my mouse cursor over a webpage, I would like my peer (who is also seeing the same web page) to have his mouse cursor point to same information. As if we are sharing a screen - but not one of those methods such as netmeeting, but a simple open mechanism. Very useful add-on to wiki systems - makes it simple to "discuss" around same themes in a organizational setting. (Of course, you discuss over phone or IM).

The architecture will need a central server: You report mouse location (within the DOM!) to this server and your peer will listen on these events. Ideally this should be part of blog server itself and a simple mechanism to allow your peers to subscribe to your events.

This also leads to extension of blog concept to a generalization of protocol for exchanging "What I am doing now" - in real time. For example the sites I am visiting just now, or research I am doing. The interested folks from the community can join together and produce a common blog as a result. (Such an interaction often tends to be more productive.)

Perhaps someone already has this implementation!

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