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  • Juice – Intelligent Discovery Engine in Your Firefox Sidebar

    In the first part of the story, I introduced an SNS extension which resides at the left side of Firefox. Here in this post, I’m going to bring you another extension takes over the right side: Juice.

    Juice is an intelligent discovery engine that integrates seamlessly with Firefox. It has features like:

    • discovering deep-linked content
    • multi-task while browsing
    • media storage and organization
    Highlight and move a chunk of text, and Juice directly delivers a set of rich, relevant content to you.

    Drag & Drop

    It’s easy to use Juice and feel its magic. Just grab a chunk of text, image or video and Juice will start performing its tricks. When dropping text into Juice, Juice will try to understand its meaning and serve you with context-relevant information. In the case of images or videos, it will let you store them for later viewing, while you keep browsing just the way you like!

    Intelligent Discovery Engine

    The developers didn’t use the term search here in order to distinguish Juice from other search engines. Juice digs into the keywords and looks for more info in various formats.

    Juice’s discovery mechanism is grounded on Linkool Labs‘ proprietary intelligent discovery engine. This engine, comprised of a natural language processing system and a dictionary management system, helps to evolve the semantic web by connecting keywords with the most relevant, rich content from third-party web services.

    Discover & Organize

    The use these two words as a combination not individuals, just like Drag & Drop. Because you can bookmark and organize rich content discovered for you! For example, when Juice delivers a video to you, you can simply add the video into your personal video playlist – for current or future viewing! You can also do this with the videos and images you discover yourself while browsing the web, by dragging the image or tab attached to the videos.

    Take a look at the video below to see how Juice works as if by magic:

    This article is part 2 of the 2-part series Make Full Use of Your Firefox Side Space, discussing excellent Firefox extensions to fill out the side spaces of wide-screen monitor. For part 1 of the series, refer to Yoono – SNS All in One in Your Firefox Sidebar.

  • Yoono – SNS All in One in Your Firefox Sidebar

    If you’re using a wide-screen monitor as I am, you probably want to take advantage of the extra space generated by the 16:9 (or 16:10) ratio, especially when you’re browsing websites because most of them are designed with a fixed width. Hence Yoono, a browser extension filling the blank spaces with interesting features to monitor your friends’ activities, letting you make quick response and interact with them.

    Strictly speaking, Yoono does not take over the sidebar space or resides in the sidebar, and it is just positioned at the left side of your Firefox, which means, normal sidebar elements like “Bookmarks” and “History” can be shown with Yoono at the same time.

    There’re a bunch of widgets that you can use to integrate almost everything into Yoono, including:

    Friends to

    • gather your friends from all social networks and IM services
    • see your friends’ status and be alerted of their updates
    • filter and prioritize your friends’ updates
    • change your status and send direct messages to your friends
    • drag & drop photos and videos directly into and IM session

    Supported networks & IM: facebook, myspace, imeem, twitter, flickr, friendfeed, piczo, msn, aim, gtalk, yahoo.

    Discoveries to

    • get recommendations of sites similar to the one you’re currently browsing
    • find users who share the same interests
    • sort by site, people or tags

    Web Notes to

    • drag & drop text, videos, pictures directly in web notes
    • classify your web notes: love, rant, laugh or your own online files
    • share it with all Yoono users, your friends, a list of friends or keep it private
    • send your web notes through Yoono or post them directly to your blog

    Videos to

    • get recommendations of videos related to the site you’re surfing
    • see your friends’ favorite videos
    • get a selection of videos from major video sharing sites
    • search for videos directly from Yoono
    • drag & drop all videos to your friends

    Photos to

    • get recommendations of pictures related to the site you’re surfing
    • see your friends’ photos
    • get a selection of pictures from major photo sharing sites
    • search for photos directly from Yoono
    • drag & drop any photos to your friends

    Music to

    • choose a radio station
    • listen to free radio while surfing: no pop-up window, no track download
    • search and file radio stations by type of music or preferences

    News to

    • manage all your subscriptions and social news
    • get all your feeds right in the sidebar
    • check to see what your friends are digging
    • share, email and add notes to stories

    Supported: googlereader, digg

    Mail to

    • toggle between messages and refresh your inbox
    • easily flip between email accounts
    • add or remove accounts
    • preview your attachments right in the sidebar

    Supported: gmail, yahoo

    Shopping to

    • choose between major retailers and second-hand bargains
    • rank by price, category and stores
    • run direct search for any product

    This article is part 1 of the 2-part series Make Full Use of Your Firefox Side Space, discussing excellent Firefox extensions to fill out the side spaces of wide-screen monitor. For part 2 of the series, refer to Juice – Intelligent Discovery Engine in Your Firefox Sidebar.

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