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The Hyperwords Company releases version 1.5 of its award-winning web browser enhancer. The Web has become the largest repository of knowledge and noise humanity has ever seen -- with well over 6 billion pages. How can we possibly make use of this much information without getting swamped? Our research group at University College London looked at optimal strategies of online knowledge work. We found that an effective approach in getting to grips with such a large volume of data was to make the data more interactive. The result is the Hyperwords(TM) extension for Firefox. It makes all words on the web interactive. Users can select any word, or selection of words, and choose commands from an intuitive pop-up menu. Hyperwords(TM) commands include: looking a word up in Wikipedia, blogging about a paragraph, translating a single word or page, looking up addresses on web-based maps, searching for results using any of the major search engines and much, much more. "Hyperwords(TM) offers far greater degrees of flexible navigation allowing web surfers to go where they like," says Frode Hegland, CEO of The Hyperwords Company. "It also provides fuller interaction of websites, leading to deeper insights. This is not just about quick references." Today we are launching version 1.5 of Hyperwords(TM), which adds a powerful Toolbar function, while in a month's time version 2.0 will be launched, featuring full user customizability, as well as Microsoft Internet Explorer support. Hyperwords(TM) is free for personal use and is available for download from www.hyperwords.net. The Company The Hyperwords Company is a US company commercializing the work it carries out in London, with architectural programming performed in Russia. Hyperwords(TM) has been listed in PC World's "101 best freebies." Doug Engelbart (inventor of interactive computing, including the mouse and word processing) who was the inspiration for the research, became senior partner in the project, joined by Vint Cerf (co-author of the Internet Protocol), Dave Farber (grandfather of the Internet, former member of the U.S. Presidential Advisory Committee of Information Technology), Bruce Horn (original Mac programmer), Joi Ito (Creative Commons, ICANN & Technorati) and Ted Nelson (who among other things, coined the term 'hypertext').
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