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Om,

I think your link should be to http://www.hyperwords.net/ not http://www.hyperwords.com

Wow…kills Safari dead.

PXlated… not sure i understand the comment. you mean you are going all firefox all the time?

not sure, what value this one adds. my right click already had that power. I use Firefox extension ConQuery. it gives me easy excess to all my search plugins in right click. so i right-click-search dictionary, ebay, yahoo, google, anything-i-put-there.
does this one give anything more than that?

Hi ‘Unsure’. Yes, Hyperwords adds more functionality, such as one-click emailing, translations, and so on. Please have a look at the website.

[...] I generally don’t write about Firefox plugins, but Hyperwords is one that’s gotten my attention. Like Om says, it’s a must-have product to aid the browsing experience. And I see a business model here, too. [...]

Hyperwords, privacy and our nonchalance

The blogosphere is sure going gaa-gaa over the new Hyperwords Firefox plugin, which is in limited private beta. Being a sucker for these elite-sounding limited beta tests, I too asked to be let in and surprise, I got an email with the plugin.
However, …

[...] I scooped Techcrunch by checking out Hyperwords 6 days previous to this post made on the 28th: “I generally don’t write about Firefox plugins, but Hyperwords is one that’s gotten my attention. Like Om says, it’s a must-have product to aid the browsing experience. And I see a business model here, too. … Options include searching various engines, looking up text in wikipedia and dictionary.com, emailing text, searching on Google Maps, translation, and searching on Amazon and other commerce sites. The search and commerce traffic will generate revenue (my guess is a dollar or so per year per active user). The translation service is incredibly useful.” [...]