Hyperwords looks useful
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If you have the Firefox browser, check out this Hyperwords plug-in.
We haven’t used it yet, but have requested permission to test it (you have to email them). Apparently, you just point to a word on your screen, and a menu will automatically appear. You can then search the major search engines, look things up in reference sites, check dictionary definitions and more. Here’s an example of how it works with the word ‘Robbie’.
We mention Hyperwords, too, because people behind it are headed out here to Silicon Valley. Hyperwords’ Frode Hegland tells us: “I am currently in Singapore but live in London and Patricia is in Mountain View. I’ll be moving early January to set up office somewhere in the valley, don’t know where yet.”
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Matt launched VentureBeat in September of 2006, with the realization that no one else was covering the entrepreneurial and tech innovation scene with the velocity or depth that he was. Prior to founding VentureBeat, he covered venture capital for the San Jose Mercury News from 2001 to 2006. In 2002, Matt was awarded "Journalist of the Year" by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. Prior to working at the Merc, he was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bonn, Germany from 1995 to 1998, and a writer for the Washington Post in 1994. Matt holds a PhD in Government and an MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown University. In addition to VentureBeat, Matt is also the Executive Producer of DEMO, the leading launchpad event for emerging technologies.
