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The Supernova Connected Innovators program, co-hosted by TechCrunch, recognizescompelling emerging technologies likely to make an impact on the connected future.From a record number of applicants this year, Supernova organizer Kevin Werbach andTechCrunch founder Michael Arrington selected only twelve companies to highlight.
The Connected Innovators showcase will take place on June 21 at the Westin St.Francis during the conference general sessions.
AdaptiveBlue recently announced its new version of the popular BlueOrganizerextension for Firefox. BlueOrganizer Denim features the breakthrough BlueMenu andSmartLinks technologies that help users experience a smarter, more contextual andmore personalized Web.
BlueOrganizer automatically recognizes things like books, wines, travel destinationsand offers contextual shortcuts between favorite sites. BlueOrganizer can instantlysend books to an Amazon Wishlist, find wines with similar taste on Wine.com, orlookup maps on Google -- all from one simple, personalized menu. This versioneliminates the need for right-clicking, and introduces a time-saving BlueMenuoption, which is accessible directly from the Firefox toolbar.
BlueOrganizer Denim also debuts SmartLinks, which offer BlueOrganizer users theability to publish structured content on their web sites, blogs and social networks.In addition to the regular link, each SmartLink contains a set of contextualshortcuts to related information. And since SmartLinks work in any browser with orwithout the BlueOrganizer, SmartLink publishers bring the power of context,semantics and relevance to anyone who visits their site.
 The 12 innovators were selected from an impressive number of exciting ventures;itÂ's an promising reflection of the current state of innovation in our industry, stated Kevin Werbach, Supernova founder and assistant professor at Wharton. Bringing this group together with industry influencers will only help drive thedevelopment and impact of technologyÂ's next big thing. This is what Supernova is allabout.Â
Supernova unites business, government, and technology thought leaders to understandhow decentralization and pervasive connectivity are changing our world.
More information on Supernova and the full list of Supernova 2007 ConnectedInnovators can be found at www.supernova2007.com.
Links:
SmartLinks Demo Page - http://tinyurl.com/3xn4um
Blu eOrganizer Denim release notes - www.adaptiveblue.com/releases. html
Screen shots: www.flickr.com/photos/adaptive bluepr
Firefox 2.0 Showcase - https://addons.mozilla.org/fir efox/recommended
About AdaptiveBlue
AdaptiveBlue, www.adaptiveblue.com, is the smart browsing company founded by AlexIskold in early 2006. The vision of AdaptiveBlue is to invent new browsertechnologies that leverage semantics and attention to power better onlineexperience. Their keystone product, BlueOrganizer, has over 650,000 downloads and isa recommended Firefox add-on. AdaptiveBlue has recently raised series A from UnionSquare Ventures.
