AnswerTips - Information bubble widget
February 20th, 2007 | Filed in Misc |
Answers.com released a new widget for bloggers today called AnswerTips.
Site owners drop a <script> block into their page and then whenever a visitor double-clicks a piece of text a bubble with information opens up.
Try it out right now. Double click on any text.
“AnswerTips are small information bubbles that define any word when double-clicked. An AnswerTips-enabled site or blog means visitors get fast facts on 4 million topics provided by Answers.com when they double-click on any word, without opening a new browser or following outbound links. AnswerTips deliver instant definitions, explanations and facts including biographies, tech terms, geography, pop culture and much more.”
I did a quick hallway test and reactions were positive but the bubble tips are unexpected. I’m not sure how many users actually double-click on text, rather than click-and-swipe to highlight. Thoughts?
I’m a constant clicker-double-clicker to highlight text to copy into the clipboard and the bubble does not interfere with that process. Clicking back on the page closes the bubble, which is nice.
» Get it here
February 20th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
[…] Widgetoko has a post on a new widget that provides answers and definitions to any word that is double-clicked on a site or blog where the widget is enabled. We did not install the widget for testing so head over to Widgetoko for a demo. […]
February 21st, 2007 at 5:12 pm
I like it - I’d love it if it was linked to wikipedia
February 21st, 2007 at 11:29 pm
It is cool!
I agree I’m not sure very many People know to double click on Text but hopefully it takes off!
& the Wikipedia suggestion is Brilliant - way beyond simple Dictionary info*
;))
February 22nd, 2007 at 8:13 am
hen you double click on the term “Widgetoko” the AnswerTips result points to a page at Answers.com displaying a “Web Widget” entry from Wikipedia.
I too would much rather just get the Wikipedia results in the bubble instead of linking off.
The Wikipedia data is available for some results, so maybe v2 will push that data directly into the bubble.
February 23rd, 2007 at 9:24 am
AnswerTips actually accesses all the 4MM topics covered by Answers.com including the 1.5MM covered by Wikipedia. So yes, great suggestion and yes, it already does it!!
February 23rd, 2007 at 3:49 pm
[…] has bugged us for a couple of days. That comment, in conjunction with some user comments over on Widgetoko’s post on the same topic, has pushed us to prototype a Search Widget much like AnswerTips. In our opinion, […]
March 14th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
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