Adaptive Blue Releases New Version of Blue Organizer
Duncan Riley
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The Union Square Ventures funded Adaptive Blue has released a new version of their well regarded Blue Organizer Firefox add-on. The new version has a range of additional features that provide an improved semantic web experience.
We’ve covered Adaptive Blue previously. Blue Organizer has grown since we last wrote about it to 600,000 downloads with what Michael Arrington called a very impressive add-on. The new version builds on what is already a quality product and delivers an even more compelling user experience.
The biggest change in the new version of Blue Organizer is “smart links”. Toolbar and in-page pull down menus are supported with an improved contextual engine that delivers results based on data pulled from the page being viewed. The options provided have evolved; where as previous versions provided only static lists of external links, the latest version of Blue Organizer dynamically personalizes link options based on browsing history. For example if you used Facebook and De.licio.us regularly but didn’t use Newsvine, Newsvine would not be listed.
Adaptive Blue also enters the widget market. The new “sharing links” feature allows users to embed semantic links into any webpage, include bookmark style lists in a sidebar or just embed a traditional widget. Affiliate programs are fully supported with no revenue sharing; if a user includes their affiliate code for programs such as eBay and Amazon they keep 100% of any associated revenue.
The new version of Blue Organizer is an appealing package. Power users are supported through right-click support. The semantic engine provides one click dynamic short cuts to useful information that is bound to be a time saver. I installed the new version of Blue Organizer in preparation for this post and I can’t see myself uninstalling it any time soon.
This is a must for power searchers -but for those not familiar with Adaptive Blue …here is an interesting link to their showcase of sites
http://www.adaptiveblue.com/showcase_featured.html
Big deal. Is TC gonna start posting some interesting news? Last week has been crap. You know news is slow if writing about FF ext.
COME ON…
Dan
this isn’t just an ordinary Firefox extension with links, it’s a whole lot more than that, read some of the earlier coverage for more info.
sorry, just not a big deal to me. i like to see services built for the masses and not for just geeks. it is what it is - a FF ext. /ad-on whatever.
Install it and try. That’s all I will say, then comment honest opinion.
drew
I’ll agree with that
Dan, you seem like a pretty funny guy. It always amuses me when people bitch about an article, then have enough motivation to comment on how much they hated it. What’s next? Hitting yourself with a hammer and then bitching about how much it hurts?
About the article… AdaptiveBlue does seem very interesting. Fred Wilson seems like a pretty stable VCist, and Alex (founder of AdaptiveBlue) definitely has a good overall vision.
Where does this fit in with Microformats? That’d what I’d like to know.
Hi Chris,
This is a good question. We have plans to add support for Microformats, just waiting for Mozilla to do it first so that we do not roll out redundant functions. As it stands right now, BlueOrganizer supports a wider range of things like Books, Movies, Wine, Travel Destinations, etc and there are no corresponding things in Microformats.
Alex
Hello,
In defense of Dan, it IS a fact that Adaptive Blue is simply a FireFox plugin. There are thousands of Firefox plugins.
Please see:
http://www.w3schools.com/brows....._stats.asp
IE6 has nearly double the penetration that Firefox has. IE6 was released in 2k1… IE7, which was released (to you) just over a year ago, is at 19.2%.
Does Firefox abide by standards and accessibility? YES.
Does Firefox perform well? YES.
Do those who primarily develop for Firefox users make money? NO.
Does Firefox bank heavily on what their crying beta testers want? YES.
Do some research on where your OS derived from and grow up a bit.
As Adobe’s Apollo (J2EE), Sun’s JavaFX (J2EE), and Microsoft’s SilverLight (.NET) platforms are hitting the community all at once, you must understand that putting all your eggs in Apple / Starbucks / FireFox isn’t smart.
Actually it would be very cool to see a homeless person with an apple laptop though.
Keep it up guys!
-Mike Ellan
// mike@figit.com
// http://www.figit.com
Mike,
With SmartLinks BlueOrganizer goes beyond Firefox into the web pages. Please take a close look at the bottom section of adaptiveblue.com
Alex
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