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Kaalga is a Firefox extension which integrates a very useful feature into your Wordpress blog editor. It basically highlights some particular words or phrases while you are writing your posts and suggests some possible links. Actually Wordpress is not the only supported platform but it works well with Blogger, TypePad and LiveJournal too.

Usage is very easy: use the combination “shift + right click” (shif+ctrl+click on a Mac touchpad) when your mouse is over the underlined words and a window with some suggested links pops up. The image below shows how it looks like:

Behind the scenes Kalgaa uses a semantic analysis engine called OpenCalais and shows the relevant results through Yahoo search.

A similar feature is provided by Zemanta too, a great plugin I use to insert links, tags and images to my blog posts very easily. Unlike Zemanta, one of the cool features of Kaalga is that it lets you insert your domain as the preferred source for links, making it very easy to insert links to posts which belong to your blog. The popup window then shows you your domain’s links first (with a red “L” which stands for “local”) then other links on the web.

My opinion? A big thumb up for this extension, definitely a must-have for any blogger and it is what I was always looking for. The funny thing? I had to insert the link to Kaalga.com manually

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Ubiquity, the new Firefox extension released by Mozilla Labs really brings your browser to the next level. This is clearly another important sign that something huge is happening and we are moving to a digital world where the only app that you will need is your browser.

For those who use a Mac everyday Ubiquity is not really a news, since I guess everyone is familiar with the popular launcher QuickSilver. On the other hand, Ubiquity seems to be more integrated with the web, making many useful and popular web services much closer to the final users.

Here are two simple examples where I used Ubiquity to show me a map of Palo Alto and to show me a translation from italian to english:

I really like it and the ability to create new commands by users will make this a must have in any Firefox installation. What’s next?

You can install Ubiquity from this link.

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I love this news. The IE Team sent this nice cake to congratulate the Firefox team for releasing Firefox 3.0.

It means the Microsoft IE team is looking at Firefox closely and, who knows, they can collaborate to make our web experience even more and more better. 

Ah, I forgot, I wouldn’t have eat it, of course

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