Juice, a Firefox browser sidebar developed by Linkool International, has launched to the public. The powerful plugin automatically culls information from around the web whenever you search for or highlight a term, making it a handy reference tool that I could quickly get used to. It also doubles as a media storage tool, allowing you to simply drag and drop videos and image files into the sidebar to save them for later.
Juice pulls from sources including Wikipedia, Google News, YouTube, and our own CrunchBase (through its API) to offer users a quick at-a-glance summary of many popular topics. The sidebar is very polished, allowing for in-line video playback and expandable text summaries, and the media storage function is intuitive.
At this point it seems that the plugin’s database is still fairly small, as many searches (even for such common terms as “Superman”) result in a notice that “Juice has learned a new keyword”. Within a few minutes these new terms are added to the database automatically, and the issue will probably be gone within a few weeks of the public beta.
Juice is the first application from Beijing-based Linkool Labs to integrate the company’s “intelligent discovery engine” which uses “natural language processing” and “a dictionary management system” to produce semantic results. It’s impossible to tell just how much processing is going on behind the scenes, but search results are generally accurate, though it’s possible to find some words that will “trick” the system.
There are a number of Firefox extensions that offer integrated reference lookup, including CoolPreviews, Briteclick, and others that can be found here.
This looks alot like one of the TC50 DemoPit companies / Briteclick / http://www.briteclick.com
Yeah you’re right, they do look similar (added a mention).
Yeah
Hmm… hard to picture. Maybe I will have to see it in action to understand. Thanks for the heads up! Firefox has the BEST addons…
Check out the embedded video, I think it does a pretty good job showing it off.
I like that stuff.
good ideas to integrate with fixefox , and make us find popular topics easily.
I’ll try it out, because it’s compelling. But what’s important to me (and I may find out myself in a moment), is can I use the same account at work and home? Or is it just an isolated addon? Because that’s usually when I need to save content–when I find work stuff at home, I want to save it for when I’m at work, and when I find NSFW things at work, I want to save them for when I’m home.
all you really gotta do is drag a bookmark onto a flash drive or email the links to yourself that you wanna view from home.
if you want a FF add-on that’s independent of whatever computer you happen to be on, try grouptivity.com. you can log-in anywhere and find everything you save.
cool plugin
Love it! now only if i can get it on chrome. untill then ill be using firefox because of this app.
Make one for Safari please :)
they can integrate it to iPhone also . Touching a word and you have all the possible articles associate with that.
That’s gotta be one of the coolest logo’s I’ve seen!
Heyy! look what juice did to my navigation bar on FF3 : http://i36.tiny...com/27yyccz.jpg
Not good… x(
Hi bad_juice, we’ve been trying to reproduce the problem, but are unable to. Could you share with us, which other plugins you are using, as there may be a compatibility issue with one of them? Thank you for trying us!
aah! it was an experimental plugin called snowl which was causing this. Its fine now :D ..i take my comments back!
Woah! where did my cooliris add-on button go?
Great news and thank you for reporting. We fixed the (pretty rare) toolbar issue and hope you’re willing to give us another try.
does it work on mac?
Sounds like Mashlogic plugin to me
so cool!!!
My screen looks like the bad juice screen. My other add on is Fireshot Screengrab , firebug & Downloadthemall…
Please advise,
Hi! We’re trying to come up a universal solution for this particular problem. Thank you for listing the plugins you’re using, this will help us find the issue.
Ya it’s pretty good, but I’d like the system requirements. {seesmic_video:{”url_thumbnail”:{”value”:”http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/EyMKLYPJ5h_th1.jpg”}”title”:{”value”:”Ya it’s pretty good, but I’d like the system requirements. ”}”videoUri”:{”value”:”http://www.seesmic.com/video/9WA6iq7jFf”}}}
This has a lot of promise but seems to be slowing down my firefox alot.
Is anyone else a fan of Babylon (www.babylon.com) – it does all of this one click lookup stuff really well, especially on the translation side. works in any app too.
very exciting news. seems like the first china based company I read on techcrunch who build the product with their original idea.
..isnt this just another clever way to track your browsing preferences online and insert targeted ads?
Great, something else to bog down my browser.
not so exciting sidebar ….
the best sidebar i saw until now was similarweb , very cool thing , but it very hard to get access to there beta.
I also got the “bad juice” screen as mentioned above. Did a trial and error disabling add-ons one-by-one.
It is conflicting with LinkedIn Companion (v 3.1.2). Obviously that’s not one you want to be conflicting with.
We fixed it. Thank you for reporting the issue!
This conflicted with Blogger. I embedded a video and Juice added some code automatically, causing my blog entry not to be published.
Can anyone tell me what the rocking music was in the background of that video? i would kill to know.
The music in the background of the video is from Chunqiu (Spring & Autumn). The voiceover on the video is done by their lead guitarist and digital guru, Kaiser Kuo. Here is a video on Youtube http://www.yout...h?v=uzW0tCItzJU
Thanks to our testers, we’ve fixed the issue reported here (unresponsive Magic & Search) in version 0.1.3. Head on over to http://juiceapp.com (or update within Firefox: Tools > Add-ons > Find Updates) to grab the latest version. Thank you for your patience and do let us know, if you find any other issues. Happy squeezing!
It seems very cool add on, isn’t it?
I just wonder how techcrunch works with facebook.
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