Comments on: Social Networking and Online Communications Related IE8 Accelerators http://www.rotorblog.com/2009/03/23/social-networking-and-online-communications-related-ie8-accelerators/ Social Media Blog, Tips & Tricks for Bloggers and Social Network Users Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:22:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: pendy http://www.rotorblog.com/2009/03/23/social-networking-and-online-communications-related-ie8-accelerators/comment-page-1/#comment-198006 pendy Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:10:01 +0000 http://www.rotorblog.com/?p=3737#comment-198006 The Gmail accelerator seems to have disappeared... The Gmail accelerator seems to have disappeared…

]]> By: pendy http://www.rotorblog.com/2009/03/23/social-networking-and-online-communications-related-ie8-accelerators/comment-page-1/#comment-196975 pendy Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:10:01 +0000 http://www.rotorblog.com/?p=3737#comment-196975 The Gmail accelerator seems to have disappeared... The Gmail accelerator seems to have disappeared…

]]> By: James Bo http://www.rotorblog.com/2009/03/23/social-networking-and-online-communications-related-ie8-accelerators/comment-page-1/#comment-172367 James Bo Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:34:30 +0000 http://www.rotorblog.com/?p=3737#comment-172367 Marrying Social Network search with Accelerators is a naturally good idea. See: http://bit.ly/vJKbW For readers who use Firefox and IE8, I wanted your readers to be aware that Firefox has a version of Accelerators too, it is called “KALLOUT - Accelerators for Firefox” It’s available as a free add-on through Firefox. See: http://bit.ly/vJKbW Kallout integrates with Facebook and LinkedIn search out of the box. Selection-based search is really helpful. One GREAT feature of KallOut is BestGuess. The challenge with selection-based search is that the user has to figure out which one to apply to his selection. It’s a little clunky once you get more than two or three. KallOut does a super job figuring out which accelerator you need to use for a given selection-based search request. Kallout — Accelerators for Firefox is actually kind of spooky when it works so well. Check it out! I agree that it’s a big step forward for the user to have the selection-based search bundled into the browser by default, however. “KALLOUT - Accelerators for Firefox” is available through Mozilla at http://bit.ly/vJKbW -JB Marrying Social Network search with Accelerators is a naturally good idea. See: http://bit.ly/vJKbW

For readers who use Firefox and IE8, I wanted your readers to be aware that Firefox has a version of Accelerators too, it is called “KALLOUT – Accelerators for Firefox” It’s available as a free add-on through Firefox. See: http://bit.ly/vJKbW

Kallout integrates with Facebook and LinkedIn search out of the box.

Selection-based search is really helpful. One GREAT feature of KallOut is BestGuess. The challenge with selection-based search is that the user has to figure out which one to apply to his selection. It’s a little clunky once you get more than two or three. KallOut does a super job figuring out which accelerator you need to use for a given selection-based search request. Kallout — Accelerators for Firefox is actually kind of spooky when it works so well.

Check it out! I agree that it’s a big step forward for the user to have the selection-based search bundled into the browser by default, however.

“KALLOUT – Accelerators for Firefox” is available through Mozilla at http://bit.ly/vJKbW

-JB

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