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Image by testdriverone via Flickr Of course I know browser plugins are not big news. They have been around for a while now. It just did not pass my path before as a need-to-do priority in the work load I already have. But suddenly you get the chance to make a great overview because somebody already did a load of work for library licenced databases & plugins. ( Aaron Tay , a Librarian with NUS Libraries) Then I attacked the subject as I normally do: jump in, head first, see what I understand. And figure out what I do not understand, by trial and error. For now this results in a short list of available library plugins . I was surprised by the nice collection of the MyCroft Project, but just discovered yesterday they also offer a nice Plugin Create/Submit "wizard" This takes away having to understand all details and makes you a plugin that is hosted at their website. That wizard also offers you to see what other plugins are made off by filling in the plugin number. F...

Zemanta has suggestions while you write inside your blogging dashboard ! It tries to understand your text and recommends images, related links, tags and more. I am using Blogger to write my posts and setting up the Zemanta Firefox plugin was pretty easy. When having the Blogger dashboard open it presents a special window next to the concept post. The content of the post is being scanned and at least 5 things are happening automatically: based on semantic search it offers to add links to parts of the text. I see many Wikipedia suggestions. I wonder if I can direct this anymore, i.e. with telling it to insert my Delicious links. it presents suggestions for Tags & Labels. They can be included with one click. I do not see an option to add extra labels. Pictures are shown the should relate to the text. They come from either from the web searched via an filter or from your own stuff from Flickr . Your own stuff can be entered in the Preferences. With a max of 160 feeds via OPML ...