wud u sai??!!.!!.!!

I opened up Chrome today and read a notice on my tab page about a new addition to the browser – extensions.

Extensions are a big deal. They provide versatility only an open source option can provide to the web browsing experience. Extensions are the reason for my advocacy of Firefox over Internet Explorer. Now IE has extensions, but the implementation is far weaker; the older business approach coupled with the massive size of the corporation, making it less agile, is evident here.

Naturally, I’m excited when I hear Google is rolling out their attempt at extensions. Google is huge and relatively new for their size. They provide a much more expandable and open business model than the old guards of the interwebs.

The one extension I found that was really striking to me (so far) is Zemanta. It integrates into several popular blogging platforms, including that of yours truly – WordPress, and enables a context sensitive display of media and related articles, able to be directly inserted wherever the user chooses in their blog post.

It does this by periodically scanning the text you’ve already typed and then searching for relevant media and articles. In addition, it will suggest in-text links for key words in your blog post. Right now it has suggested I link to the Zemanta home page, Internet Explorer in Wikipedia, the WordPress home page, and now that I’ve said home page twice, the Wikipedia entry for ‘home page’ just popped up!

It will also suggest tags for your post, perhaps helping you with SEO if you are the type of person who needs it. Personally, I haven’t used tags – mostly due to an accidental decision to use categories like tags instead. I’ve grown fond of the approach I take, offering a few broad categories instead of every possible tag under the sun. It allows me to look at this personal blog and consider the direction I’m going with it.

Anyway, there’s a write up for you. I felt the extension deserved a plug from blarg fish??!!?!.