Sunday, October 5, 2008

"New to You" Social Software, Web2.0 or Library 2.0 site

Last week I referenced a great web 2.0 directory that provided links to a large number of interesting social software tools. This week I came across another web 2.0 directory that was also very informative and provided numerous links to some very useful tools. One of the first such tools that caught my eye was a called adaptiveblue. Although some of you may have already installed this feature to your firefox browser, for those who are not familiar with the service I suggest you check it out :)

Adapative Blue provides the following additional features (in the mozilla firefox browser):

  • Smart menus-adds a button to the toolbar that is customized to your browsing history.
  • The BlueOrganizer - shows you useful information regarding the site of interest description, categories, and tags. It also gives you the ability to add your own tags to the site.
  • The smartlinks - automatically inserts SmartLinks for links that point to books, music, movies, stocks, wines and more. When you see the blue square icon, hover over it to find out how popular the object is around the web.
  • Customize widgets - for your blogs with an easy to use wizard
  • Smartmenu - my favorite :) allows you to save and share the site to delicious, with friends on twitter or facebook, or create a tiny url using the shortcut menu. The menu also allows you to find similar sites and pages on Google with the click of a button.

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