Cooliris is a service that provides pop-up previews of the contents of a link when you hover over it. Previously only available for Firefox and Explorer, the company has now released a version for Safari.
While other services perform this function for Firefox and Google search results, the new Cooliris Safari plug-in offers previews of links in Google (Web, Images, News, Groups, Froogle), BBC News, CNN News, Craigslist, eBay, Del.icio.us and RSS feeds. The company’s primary competitor is Browster.
In other Mac friendly news, web messaging platform Meetro will launch a Mac version tonight as well. See also previous TechCrunch coverage of Meetro.
I really don’t get the buzz about this thing.
As someone said in the past:
“Why look through the window when you can open the door”
Clicking is not a problem.
any thoughts on a business model for this service? or is it just another nice implementation of a technology, but no plans for running as a business?
Good idea, horrible implementation.
One thing in the recent evolution of AD attacks on websites that bugs the hell out of me. Word sense ad popup’s. Usually I’ll be trying to read whatever it is my mouse hovers over. Then this AD pops up over what I’m trying to read.
To me this is the same thing, only displaying another website instead of an AD.
Maybe if it had a separate window that was fixed, then I’d be very interested. This way I would intuitively look to this window when I was about to hover over something I wanted to preview.
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