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8 Google Reader Extensions for Firefox 3September 18th, 2008 at 1:46 pmSource:Mashable! There are less than 10 days left to send your submission to the Boss Mashable Challenge to win either the $2,000 Grand Prize or the $1,000 runner-up prize. We’ve received many submissions so far and will continue to showcase the best of the best on Mashable until the September 28th Deadline. Three submissions that will definitely be making it into the voting round are: Tall Street, BooYarr and Buzka. How do you win? Build a kickass mashup – search engine or any other Web app – using the BOSS API and any other data sources/technologies. This Week’s Showcase: Tall Street Logo Screenshot: tallstreet-screenshot 100 word description from developer: “Tall Street is a new search engine concept where you get to rank the results. If you become a member of our community you become a trader on our directory where you get to play the search results like a stock market. This means you make investments (with fake money) on sites belonging to certain keywords, if when people search those keywords they find the sites you have invested in useful, you earn more money to further invest. If people don’t find your sites useful then you lose money.” Screenshot: 100 Word description from developer: “BooYarr aims to make search easier by improving access to the search functionality and by, more importantly, improving the process of navigating through the results. BooYarr works by having all the search functionality, e.g. web, news, etc. kept inside the browser sidebar, even the results are displayed in the sidebar. This means it takes significantly less time to conduct a search and you don’t have to load whole pages in the browser window just to do a search. When we built BooYarr we also needed to ensure that it was easier to access the BooYarr sidebar than it is to use a toolbar or search bar, what we came up with was a bunch of shortcuts both keyboard and mouse.” Screenshot: 100 word description from developer: “Buzka is a social web application that helps friends to share and organize favorites on the web. It’s the easiest way to share and save a link by using just one Buzka Button. Favorites shared with the Buzka Button are saved and organized into folders which users can sort and publish on the web. Buzka gives friends a way to browse, organize and search each other’s favorites and is a great way to collaborate and share knowledge - for work and play. BOSS search has been used to give users highly relevant content matching keywords within the context of nested folders.” That’s it for this week. Less than 10 days left, so submit as soon as you are ready. If you are not developing for this contest, what are your thoughts on the submissions showcased above? —Related Articles at Mashable | All That’s New on the Web:Announcing the Yahoo! Search BOSS Mashable Challenge ($3,000 in prizes)The BOSS Mashable ChallengeTall StreetBuzkaMashable Sponsors Spigit’s Entrepreneur ChallengeBooYarrThe Spokeo Challenge: Don’t Like the Site, Get $5
Google Reader is a great service, but it would be nice to know when you have new unread items as opposed to always going to the tab, or being disappointed to find out it’s only your least favorite feed that’s been updated. There are numerous Firefox extensions that can help you with these issues, and even help you to continue the discussion on the original blog depending on the commenting system they have installed. As with any list of Firefox tools, please do not install all of these at once unless you’d like to slow down your browser. And, honestly, how many notifications do you need to show you that you have unread items in Reader? AideRSS - Brings AideRSS to your Google Reader, allowing you to see ranks directly in your reader, as well as letting you group feeds by rank. Also allows you to add your own thoughts on each feed. Better GReader - Combines several Greasemonkey scripts in one extension. Includes things such as skipping the iGoogle choice page, the ability to preview the item as it appears on the actual Web page, shows the favicon for each feed, and several other choices. Feedly - While actually a start page extension, Feedly will monitor your Google Reader activities to deliver what appears to be your most important news so that you can always keep up with what is most important to you. You can read a more in-depth review by Alana Taylor here on Mashable. Google Reader Notifier - Shows you how many unread items there are, provides an itemized list, lets you customize where the information appears in your browser, different icon sets, and more. Google Reader Toolkit - A straightforward extension that adds an icon to your status bar that shows you how many unread items you have, and can open Reader for you. Google Reader Watcher - Based on a Greasemonkey script by the same author, Google Reader Watcher will check your account at an interval you set and will show you how many unread items you have. It can show this broken down by feed and more. gReader Comments - If a blog has Disqus installed, you can continue the conversation in Google Reader with this extension. IntenseDebate in Google Reader - This plugin will add a link to each item in your Google Reader to allow you to post comments directly to IntenseDebate. —Related Articles at Mashable | All That’s New on the Web:Google Reader Gets Search!Google Reader Graduates, Launches International VersionsOffline Google Docs Access DeployedDelicious Sidebar for IE is Here. Almost as Cool as Firefox.Firefox Extension Contest is On & Poppin’New Google Reader for iPhone: Still Neat, Not Very SocialMozilla to Go Mobile, Launch Firefox for Cell Phones
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