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Navify: Enhancing Wikipedia with Images, Videos and Comments

Navify is an online visual encyclopedia that combines Wikipedia articles with images, videos and comments. This is a great place to start if you are doing a research about something. Instead of heading straight to Wikipedia for the text content, you can use Navify to view related images and videos about the article you want to read about. Comments are also allowed so you can read what people are saying about a publication.

Wikipedia is the choice site of many whenever they want to learn about something. What Navify does is enhance the content found on Wikipedia with related media that is available online. The service is also planning on placing a music player so that users can listen to full related songs and audio content. If you are not satisfied with what you find in Wikipedia, you might want to give Navify a shot for more content.

Instead of searching different sites for more images and videos about a particular topic, you can enjoy all of them in a single page in Navify. This will save you some time and will give you less distraction that other sites provide while viewing media that you are interested in.

Tags: Audio, content, encyclopedia, images, Navify, Photos, videos, wikipedia

PrintFriendly: Make Any Website Printer Friendly

PrintFriendly is a fast and easy way to print web pages that contains ads and other unwanted elements. Rather than copying the content you want to print to a document editor, you can just place the URL or the web page on PrintFriendly and you can instantly print it from there or get a PDF version of the page.

The service removes ads and sidebar content. It detects the basic content of the page. After placing the URL of the page you wish to print, hitting the print preview will bring you to the mini editor of PrintFriendly. From there, you can further remove any content you do not wish to print. You can remove images, links, page title and even paragraphs. All of these you can do by just clicking the part you wish to remove. After making the proper selections, all that’s left for you to do is click the print button or download the content in the form of a PDF document.

PrintFriendly is a great alternative to copying web content to document editor before printing. This tool works best for quick content printing that doesn’t require much editing or formatting for presentations. If you want it fast, check out this tool and print without any hassle.

Tags: content, print, Print Web Page, Print Website, PrintFriendly

TynT Tracer: Track Which Content is Being Copied From your Website

Tracer is a very useful and amazing tool that you can use to keep track of your content and see what goes on with your site. It will act like your personal big brother tool for your website. What it does is it tracks which of your content is being copied and it will tell you which part (paragraph, sentence, word, image) got copied and display them in real time.

The Tracer monitor records a user’s action each time content from your website or blog is highlighted or copied. The recorded data will then be displayed on your Tracer dashboard. You can then use the data to keep track of what your visitors/users are interested in and create a targeted content based on user activity.
How it works.

After signing up, you will be asked to place the Tracer code on your website. That code will be linked to your Tynt Tracer dashboard so that it can monitor the site activity. Once the code is installed, you will notice that whenever you highlight at part of your website, a loading action is performed. Just look at the top of your page tab and you will notice that the loading indicator activates.

If you want to find out which part of your content got copied, just click it from your Tynt Tracer dashboard and it will take you to the page where the action was made and Tracer will highlight the part of the content that was taken.

There is another feature of Tynt Tracer that should not be left unmentioned. I think this one will please most bloggers. Every time content gets copied and pasted on emails, IMs, blogs, websites or social networking sites, Tynt Tracer will automatically add an attribution link going to your site/page, along with the copied content. This feature only works when a certain number of words are copied. Copying a single word or a phrase and embedding the link can be very annoying to users especially if they’re just copying them just to make a search. I’m not sure if this works on automated content scrapers because they usually go for RSS feeds but it’s still a great feature.

This provides return traffic to your site when your content is shared without your knowledge while maintaining a consistent user experience. You can’t stop users from copying off your site but you can make the pasted content your virtual ambassador!

If you’re interested in finding out what goes on in your website, give Tynt Tracer a shot and learn more about your users.

Tags: content, Content Monitor, copy, Tracer, track, Tynt

Download a Slice of Wikipedia with WikiSlice

It has been said that Wikipedia is the sum of all world knowledge. But sometimes, when using Wikipedia, it’s easy to get lost with all the in-links of the site. There are links which are sometimes distracting and will lead you away from the original information that you are looking for. With all information available to us in WikiPedia, it often takes a lot of time to browse around and read all the stuff for a particular topic. People on the go who do not have the luxury of time to go back and search again will have a hard time in finding what they are looking for especially when they are on the road and offline.

There is a web service called WikiSlice, a web app made by Webaroo which allows you to download a chunk of WikiPedia for you to browse offline. WikiSlice is a WikiPedia search engine which you can use to search a topic you want to download. Once you found what you are looking for, WikiSlice will let you download all the Wiki content related to that topic including subtopics. A list of related Wiki slices is also available for you to browse and download if you choose to do so.

You can browse the content through a desktop application called Webaroo. WikiSlice will detect if you do not have Webaroo installed in your computer. You can immediately download the software when you decided to download a Wikipedia topic.

Since Webaroo has a mobile version, I’m not sure if it will support the sliced Wikipedia content. It would be great if you can read the Wiki Slice in you mobile phones or iPhone. Remember the guy who downloaded all WikiPedia content in his iPhone? He uses the iPhone’s Safari browser to browse WikiPedia locally in his iPhone. It would be great if we can also do this using Webaroo mobile.

Anyway, this is a great tool if you want to read a WikiPedia topic when you are mobile and offline. You can take the content with you while on the road and do not have internet access. It’s also a great way for excluding a topic from all the other content in Wikipedia for research purposes.

Tags: content, Download, offline reading, webaroo, wikipedia, wikislice

Get Blogging Suggestions for your Content Using Zemanta

Zemanta is a new web app (still in alpha version) that lets you get suggestions for your content while blogging. As of now, they index around 300 top media sources and numerous blogs of their users. They also provide image suggestions for your content. The suggested images are based on the contextual comparison of your text and image description, title and the articles or posts they were used in originally. They currently get their suggested images from Wikimedia Commons, Flickr and various stock photo providers like Shutterstock and Fotolia. Link suggestions are also provided and even tags for your post.

Zemanta Blogger integration from zemanta on Vimeo.
The suggestion engine will start working after you have typed in 300 characters in your blog. It will analyze your post through their proprietary natural language processing and semantic algorithms, and then the engine will statistically compare its context framework to their preindexed database of other content.How to Use:

The service currently supports the Mozilla Firefox browser and is currently available in WordPress (supports both hosted and wordpress.com platforms), Blogger and Typepad blogging platforms. All you have to do is install the Firefox Plugin which is available in their site. Once installed, you will notice a small icon (will be activated when you start writing your post) addition on the right side of your URL bar, then go to the dashboard of your favorite blogging platform and start writing an article. When you get to 300 characters, the engine will start to work and will give you relevant articles, images, links and tags suggestions for your post. You can either visit the suggested articles through the link provided or click to insert them in your blog as related article for your content. If you find an image in their suggestion bar, just click on it and it will be automatically added to your post. The same procedure applies to links and tags suggestions.

This is a great way to find additional content for your articles. The service is very new and you can expect more improvements in the future when it comes to bringing suggestions and supporting other blogging platforms and browsers.

 

Tags: Blog, content, engine, Firefox, image, link, Plugin, suggestion, zemanta