Browse Smarter with BlueOrganizer Semantic Web Plugin

Posted on March 7, 2008 at 6:29 am

The World Wide Web is not really as smart as you think. Many times it simply does not really know what you are actually looking for. That is one of the reasons why “semantic web” is the next big thing in the future. According to Wikipedia, a semantic web is “an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which the meaning of information and services on the web is defined, making it possible for the web to understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content“.

Basically, a semantic web aims to provide better and smarter web browsing experience. One way to experience this is to try AdaptiveBlue’s BlueOrganizer, a Firefox add-on that aims to provide better and personalized web browsing experience for end users.

What BlueOrganizer Does

BlueOrganizer is a Firefox plugin that adds semantics and personalization to Mozilla Firefox. BlueOrganizer developer’s implementation for a semantic web is a tool that learns your web browsing history to create a better, personalized online experience for each web surfer.

Once you have installed BlueOrganizer and restarted your browser to activate it, a toolbar will appear in line with your Address Bar. BlueOrganizer allows you to bookmark content from websites in meaningful categories - books will be bookmarked as books while movies will be treated as movies. Additionally, BlueOrganizer provides excellent shortcuts for digging into extra information based on what you are currently browsing. For example, if you recently opened a page about a book on Amazon, shortcuts to related information such as similar sites, Wikipedia articles, author information and more will pop up accordingly on the “Smart Menu” toolbar. Cool, isn’t it?

BlueOrganizer Features

BlueOrganizer comes with powerful features. Here are some of the features that you will get:

Matching “Smart Menu” toolbar icons that change based on site content - book icons for books, music notes for music and more. Click on the icon to save a web page.

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Personalized shortcut menu - the Smart Menu toolbar will provide different related and relevant shortcuts for different types of content.

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Microformats support - if you select a text known to BlueOrganizer such as address, postcodes, personality, etc., a smart menu will appear with relevant extra information.
Social bookmarking support - you can save your web pages to various social bookmarking sites such as Del.icio.us, Twitter, Tumblr and more.
SmartSearch - based on Google Custom Search Engine, relevant, more focused results are returned once you opt to search via BlueOrganizer.
SmartLinks - automatic, recognizable link recommendation tool that that shows popularity and relevant shortcuts for a web link.

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My Things sidebar -the place where BlueOrganizer bookmarks are stored and shown in thumbnails in meaningful categories (simple text links also available) . You can open, add, edit and delete bookmarks with ease.

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Natural language search engine - from the MyThings sidebar, for example, you can enter queries such as “author is Rowling” or “year is 2008” for filtered, advanced search results from the books category.
Widgets - based on your bookmarks, you can create a widget to be embedded on other websites. A simple wizard will guide you to create and publish widgets of your choice.

If you are looking forward to experiencing the future of a semantic web, give BlueOrganizer a try. It automatically recognizes things like books, songs, travel destinations, blogs etc. and intelligently offers contextual shortcuts between your favorite sites, based on your web browsing history. Be a smarter web browser, use BlueOrganizer today!