The Fluidinfo extension helps you work with information while browsing the web. You can easily:
- Add info to anything
- See info you and your friends have added to URLs
- Jump to http://fluidinfo.com to look at anything
- Follow anything
These are described below.
Click the extension icon to add info to the current URL or any currently selected text.
You'll see a number of ways to add info. These include adding keywords, comments, ratings, marking pages to read later, and adding arbitrary info using a description and (an optional) value.
You can also add your current URL to anything else in Fluidinfo. Enter a description (e.g., image) and the thing in Fluidinfo you want to add to (e.g., @joe). When anyone looks at the @joe object in Fluidinfo, they'll see the page you added to it. This is easy visual tagging of anything. You can create attractive collections of info about anything at all.
You must be logged in to add info. Click the Login tab on the left of the Options page for details. Right click the Fluidinfo extension to see the Options page.
When you navigate to a page you've added to, a popup will show you any info you or anyone you follow has added to it. To follow things, select text with the mouse, right-click it, and choose Follow from the context menu. Or, go to http://fluidinfo.com and log in, enter something to look at, click Go, then click Follow.
The extension icon will also display a count of the number of pieces of info you've added to the page.
Finally, if you select some text (a name, an email, a word, etc) and you or the people you follow have put info for that into Fluidinfo, a popup will show it to you.
There are many ways to quickly jump to fluidinfo.com to look at anything:
- Right-click the page background to jump to the current URL.
- Hover over any link and right-click to jump to the URL of the link or the text in the link.
- Hover over any image and right-click to jump to the URL of the image.
- Select any text on a web page, and right-click to jump to it.
- In the Chrome location bar, type "fi" and a Space. Then type anything you like, and hit Enter to jump to the Fluidinfo page for that thing.
In the context menu for the page, over a link or image, or with text selected, you can choose to follow that thing in Fluidinfo. You can follow anything at all: names, @names, URLs, domains, images, words or phrases, anything!
No identifying information is sent to Fluidinfo during normal browsing. The extension makes requests to Fluidinfo with your username only to read information you have already stored, or to add new information when you ask it to. All calls to Fluidinfo are encrypted and we do not log IP addresses. The extension source code is available for download and inspection at https://github.com/fluidinfo/obrowser-chrome-extension
We'd love to hear what you think and to improve the extension based on your suggestions. You can mail us at info@fluidinfo.com or come hang out with us in the #fluidinfo channel on irc.freenode.net.
Happy tagging!
The Fluidinfo Team
You can install the extension most easily by visiting https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/eilipheemcfeoafinogpabomclpejioj and clicking 'Add to Chrome'.
Visit chrome://extensions, turn on Developer Mode, and click Load unpacked extension. Then navigate to the directory of this extension and Chrome will do the rest.