Watson bookmarklet
Not particularly useful, but funny...
Laurian just made me discover bookmarklets (yeah I know, that's quite late to find out about this kind of things). For those ignorant people like me who don't know what bookmarklets are, wikipedia provides clear explanations and examples:
Because I quite like this kind of technological gadgets, I gave it a try on Watson. I wrote (well in fact I mostly copied and adapted) a small bookmarklet that query Watson with the words selected in the current webpage.
Let's try it. First you put the following link in your bookmarks:
This link actually contains a small Javascript that get the selection in the current Web page, and send the browser to Watson with the words of the selection as parameters. Now, imagine, you are reading this page about how to build a wind turbine (who said the example has to be realistic) and it suddenly hit you that you would like to know about ontologies concerning renewable energies (yeah who?). You select the words "renewable energy" in the page, click on your Watson keyword search bookmark, and hop, magically, your browser displays the list of ontologies and entities describing concepts like renewable resource, papers about renewable energies or research groups on the topic. Isn't that fun? (BTW, as readers using Safari, Internet Explorer or other exotic browsers may already have discovered, this doesn't work in every browser... try firefox).
Now I wonder if there could be a really useful application of bookmarklet with Watson...