A client-side director is presented. The director is free of a universal resource
locator entry element and provides web-browsing capabilities to a user using services
provided by an operating system. The director displays a web page associated with
a first web site in the site list. The director may also be used to collect network
performance statistics between the client and a remote site. A web page may be
filtered by removing links listed as forbidden by site criteria. One or more content
items may be generated by the users of the director and distributed by a channel
server to other users. The channel server uses a unique identifier associated with
each director and a subscriber database to determine which directors to send the
content to. An identifier module and an identifier database are used by the channel
to distribute the content to the directors.
