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Still in private beta, headup adds more Yahoo! goodness

Tel Aviv-based SemantiNet announced today that their headup browser plugin has added support for Yahoo! Fire Eagle and BOSS to its set of capabilities.
Written by Paul Miller, Contributor
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Tel Aviv-based SemantiNet announced today that their headup browser plugin has added support for Yahoo! Fire Eagle and BOSS to its set of capabilities. Also today, Yahoo! announced that BOSS is serving an impressive 10,000,000 queries per day, some of which will now be coming in from headup.

SemantiNet CEO Tal Keinan commented,

"SemantiNet is very fortunate to have an extremely close relationship with Yahoo! and they have been a superb partner for us. The Yahoo! APIs allow us seamless access to their most cutting-edge new technologies such as Fire Eagle and BOSS – Yahoo!’s unmatched support has enabled us to leverage their platform to make headup an even greater success and resource for our users."

Describing the capabilities of headup, launched earlier this year at the Web 3.0 Conference in Santa Clara, the company claims that,

"headup’s semantic engine retrieves personalized, meaningful information in real-time about the data that specifically interests the individual user. With this information, headup can seamlessly and contextually ‘understand’ how dispersed data across the Web is related, and connect it in real time, thereby alerting the user via a ‘+’ symbol that there is additional information that is of interest."

Covering the original announcement of headup for ReadWriteWeb, Frederic Lardinois wrote;

"Headup is a browser extension that cross-references data from all your social networks, including Twitter, Gmail, Facebook, Last.fm, Digg, and FriendFeed. Headup integrates directly into these sites and allows you to quickly get more information about your friends' activities on other networks. The extension only works in Firefox and is based on Silverlight 2, which Microsoft just released this week."

A SemantiNet company video demonstrates some of the ways in which Yahoo!'s location-brokering service, Fire Eagle, is put to use within headup, which is tackling a broadly similar space to AdaptiveBlue's Glue.

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