We just released version 3.0 of BlueOrganizer on our site (it will shortly also be available on the Mozilla add-ons page as well) You can read about all the new features here, but the feature that I’d like to highlight tonight is the BlueMenu.
BlueMenu is for the times when you want to use the power of the BlueOrganizer without actually using the BlueOrganizer. Lets pretend you are reading a blog and you want to post it to digg. The BlueMenu makes it easy. (Feel free to try this for yourself)
This does not just work for blogs, but also for any of the 20 types of objects BlueOrganizer recognizes and with any of the 100+ sites and services it supports. You are also not limited to recognized pages, but it also works when the text you’ve highlighted is recognized as being a book, a wine, a video game, etc.
The idea was to make you more effective and more efficient when trying to discover relevant new information on the web. We want to put you even one step closer to all the great sites and services you already use. Marshall Kirkpatrick summed it up nicely on TechCrunch:
One of the best things about it is that there is so much than can be done with this tool, and yet using it is remarkably simple.
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I have version 3.0, but don’t see the BlueMenu option. Is there a way to turn it on or off? I’m using Firefox 2.0 on OSX.
Ah, there it is - looks like I ran into the problem of using “Restart Firefox” where it didn’t install the update completely. I closed down and restarted and the BlueMenu is now there.
How is this different than del.icio.us?
I’ve spent the last 30 minutes reading your help files, and I still don’t get it. All I see is an extension that allows me to tag stuff. The del.icio.us extension does that pretty well, why do I need another one?
If a 2.0 web business cannot be understood quickly, I can’t see how it could be successful.
Anyway I’ll give it a try for a day or two since you wrote about it like it’s the hottest thing since sliced bread.
Also, on a more philosophical level, I really don’t like the “Own it” or “Want it” buttons appearing everywhere. There is more than “owning” and “wanting” in life.
The main difference between this and del.icio.us is focus on semantics. BlueOrganizer understands attributes of everyday objects and allows you to discover the relevant information quickly.
Alex