AdaptiveBlue Releases BlueOrganizer for Firefox

Theres a new Firefox extension in town, and I'm trying it out. It's BlueOrganizer by Adaptive Blue. This is a contextual search engine that offers some useful little features that made me want to download it immediately. The tool bar button contains a drop down list of your saved favorite things and places. It adds some little blue buttons to pages you're looking at that, when you hover your mouse over them, show drop down menus with further information on the item. This is alot like Cool Iris, which I highly recommend as a tool that lets you preview link destinations without leaving the page you're on. This thing notes the places you go and offers links to semantic matches of what you're looking for or looking at. So, when you're looking at books, for instance, the button on the page next to the book will show you the popularity of the book on the web and where else its available. You can add the book and/or the site to your favorites on the toolbar, and the program will give you the option to do things like, make an instant widget of the item and where its available to add to your blog. The same can be done for the dontation page of a cause, a blog that you like (such as this one!...or even RIPCoco...Brilliant at Breakfast?)

This is a next generation search engine, and though I've only just installed it and will have to play around with it, and see how much information is being sent to the mother ship, I like the idea very much. I'm not one who sweats big business knowing what sort of bread I'm buying, but I can see the potential for misuse of the information that concerns me. As someone who is fascinated by the statistics of popular culture, I am more interested than worried.

If you're someone who regularly cross checks everything with Amazon, Buy.com, a ton of tech blogs, and numerous newspapers and magazines, this may be for you. Further report to follow after Ive messed around with it. I'd love to hear from anyone out there using it who has a report, bad or good.

Another highly recommended Add-on for Firefox is Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer which synchronizes all of your bookmarks across your network. I love the thing!