They generated enormous excitement with very good reasons. We cannot, in this short abstract, survey the possibilities and directions this opens. We will concentrate on how Warmlist allows a better use of this global information source, thus making the Internet more friendly. One of the main paradigms of using the world-wide web is that of browsing. Documents are linked together in hypertext links.
Users can therefore easily explore information.
But a major weakness of the browsing paradigm is that users not only get easily lost in cyberspace, but even if they find what they want, they will have to go to the same effort finding it again a week later. Another problem is that the Internet is still relatively slow. Going from one link to another can take minutes, not to mention that often links get broken because some sub-networks or servers are down. Later, the user can look at the Hot List, select any title from it, and fetch that page. The Hot List is a very useful idea, but it suffers from three problems which our Warmlist addresses.