Comments on: Blue Organizer’s Latest Indigo Release Lets You Surf Things Instead of Web Pages

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Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:27:01 +0000

[...] startups and projects are hot right now. (See Radar Networks, Freebase, Blue Organizer, Hakia, even Yahoo). But what do you do if you are a little-known technology company in Rochester, [...]

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links for 2008-03-20 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:30:43 +0000

[...] Blue Organizer’s Latest Indigo Release Lets You Surf Things Instead of Web Pages Blue Organizer lets you surf things instead of Web pages. It recognizes when a Webpage that you are browsing is about certain classes of things: books, movies, music, stocks, recipes, restaurants, blogs, wine, clothing, electronics, celebrities, musicians (tags: firefox plugin semantic search web) [...]

By: Carver

Carver — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:34:10 +0000

This sounds like an interesting idea, but how is it different than a regular google search? The search criteria the article says it has is: “The software studies your Web history to surface links to Websites you already frequent. And Adaptive Blue has created a customized Google search engine for each class of objects it recognizes for more relevant search results.” I suppose this is technically “semantic” in the sense that it is using keywords, but when people talk about the semantic web they are talking about something far more advanced. The two key elements are advanced taxonomies and ontologies which would parse words and data in order to generate a more meaningful search. Does Adaptive Blue utilize any of these next generation semantic technologies?

By: Alex Iskold

Alex Iskold — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:38:44 +0000

@DMC,

We are going to pick up your affiliate code and maximize the sale for you - inside SmartLinks users will have 5 more opportunities to transact with Amazon.

Alex

By: DMC

DMC — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:39:48 +0000

I’m curious what this is going to do to affiliate links. If I’m affiliate linking to a book on Amazon, is this toolbar going to steal that click? Seems to me it will. If it does, this would be the most evil “tool” I’ve come across in a while.

Don’t screw with my content.

By: Marc

Marc — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:44:43 +0000

WOW……hold your horses all. After never hearing of Adaptive Blue I stumbled onto them from RWW last month. Also, I’m one of those that run a minimalist browser. So i tried it out, got in on the beta and it is actually useful.

There are many times when you may be at a blog about subject matter X and never think to relate that to content source A. The cool thing is the icon in the browser, it intelligently figures out what type of content your are viewing and gives a matrix of options to see that info or related info in a different context.

I was skeptical at first as well, but the install and setup is easy as pie.

By: NotForMe

NotForMe — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:06:49 +0000

“This Software License Agreement (“Agreement”) is an agreement between
the end-user (“You”) and AdaptiveBlue, Inc. (“AdaptiveBlue”) (…) a non-exclusive, non-transferable License of the Software for your
personal, non-commercial use”.

OK you want to benefit from free/libre software community and products (ie Firefox here), but you don’t want to share. It may be OK for some people, but not for me thanks. My priority is the freedom, not the last hype.

By: Ilan

Ilan — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:02:43 +0000

That’s what Yoono is for, and I love Yoono.

By: paullmf

paullmf — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:26:36 +0000

So much negativity!
Surely its just the next evolutionary step for AdaptiveBlue in an arena of vast scope, where very little user preference has been defined and supporting infra is in its infancy.
I’m damn interested to try it, give feedback and look for opps that I can exploit!

By: uploadchoice

uploadchoice — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:14:25 +0000

I think there is need of exact matching the same thing the user search on.

By: keshi

keshi — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:47:27 +0000

Neat app. There are a few other things out there that do pretty much the same thing. AlchemyPoint from Orchestr8 is one, Twine is another. Hakia and some other sites also offer semantic search.

By: damon

damon — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:52:16 +0000

I remember when microsoft got body slammed for smart tags …

“how dare someone modify the intent of my web page” was the rant

same thing here, albeit with an plugin

By: em

em — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:16:34 +0000

i dont get why this is so great.

By: Larry Larrikin

Larry Larrikin — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:56:34 +0000

This looks like a cool add-on but I don’t understand your use of the verb “surface” in this context. Surface is an intransitive verb. I think you mean “expose”.

By: Huh

Huh — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:54:07 +0000

What is with the love affair with this app? It provides shortcuts! No-one actually uses it.

Is there some debt that needs to be paid to Fred Wilson?

By: Fabian Schonholz

Fabian Schonholz — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:23:00 +0000

Sounds cool!! What kind of an algorithm is he using?

By: Everett

Everett — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:18:05 +0000

Best of luck Alex!