http://startupsquad.com/2007/02/20/adaptiveblues-semantic-plugin-gets-funded/ Tech and Money Blog Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:58:13 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://startupsquad.com/2007/02/20/adaptiveblues-semantic-plugin-gets-funded/#comment-5213 StartupSquad » Blog Archive » AdaptiveBlue+LineBuzz = Clupedia gets $1.3 million Mon, 21 May 2007 06:09:30 +0000 http://startupsquad.com/2007/02/20/adaptiveblues-semantic-plugin-gets-funded/#comment-5213 [...] Clupedia core product is a browser plugin called Clucast. After you get Clucast plugin installed and highlight a word of text on a web page,  the plugin automatically generates and retrieves “clues”—ratings, reviews, notes, links or blogs related to those words. These clues can be sorted and searched, and on the social side of things users can write their own “clues” and have them ranked by others. As the startup claims ““It’s a way to aggregate comments and opinions that people have placed wherever on the Web”. Well, these features sound similar to what AdaptiveBlue and LineBuzz have been trying to sell in the recent past. Still I would be interested to checkout the product twist in this case. [...] [...] Clupedia core product is a browser plugin called Clucast. After you get Clucast plugin installed and highlight a word of text on a web page,  the plugin automatically generates and retrieves “clues”—ratings, reviews, notes, links or blogs related to those words. These clues can be sorted and searched, and on the social side of things users can write their own “clues” and have them ranked by others. As the startup claims ““It’s a way to aggregate comments and opinions that people have placed wherever on the Web”. Well, these features sound similar to what AdaptiveBlue and LineBuzz have been trying to sell in the recent past. Still I would be interested to checkout the product twist in this case. [...]

]]> http://startupsquad.com/2007/02/20/adaptiveblues-semantic-plugin-gets-funded/#comment-5212 StartupSquad » Blog Archive » Del.icio.us in the sidebar; Becomes usable again Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:20:57 +0000 http://startupsquad.com/2007/02/20/adaptiveblues-semantic-plugin-gets-funded/#comment-5212 [...] The number of useful sidebar and toolbars coming out is just exploding like anything. Some of the better ones already out there  - GoogleToolbar, and AdaptiveBlue, and another 2 recent releases - Mozilla Coop and Google Talk. All of them already all over my browser and under heavy use. And now Del.icio.us wants to move in quickly before it runs out of space. Smart idea. Del.icio.us today launched upgraded version of its Firefox extension that now pulls your Bookmarks into a sidebar. The new extension comes with all the basic features of web part of del.icio.us - ability to sort and search bookmarks instantly, view tag intersections, and modify your bookmarks. Even Cltr+B key combination gets mapped to bring up del.icio.us toolbar.  [...] [...] The number of useful sidebar and toolbars coming out is just exploding like anything. Some of the better ones already out there  - GoogleToolbar, and AdaptiveBlue, and another 2 recent releases – Mozilla Coop and Google Talk. All of them already all over my browser and under heavy use. And now Del.icio.us wants to move in quickly before it runs out of space. Smart idea. Del.icio.us today launched upgraded version of its Firefox extension that now pulls your Bookmarks into a sidebar. The new extension comes with all the basic features of web part of del.icio.us – ability to sort and search bookmarks instantly, view tag intersections, and modify your bookmarks. Even Cltr+B key combination gets mapped to bring up del.icio.us toolbar.  [...]

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