Sphere Related Content Bookmarklet

The Sphere It! Bookmarklet is a free bookmarklet that makes it easy to find blog posts that relate to what you're reading on the Web. It may change your life. Here's what you do:

1. Point, click and drag

   
   
   

   

   1. For Safari or Firefox:
      Install the Bookmarklet by dragging this button to your browser's toolbar in Safari or Firefox.

   2. For Internet Explorer:
      Right-click this button and select "Add to Favorites". IE will point out that you are adding a "potentially unsafe" item to your toolbar. This is a standard warning for all javascript bookmarklets. Our bookmarklet is not only safe, but indispensable, so please answer "Yes".

2. Go to one of your favorite websites and click on an article that interests you. Let's say you're reading an article on CNN.com about Global Warming, and you're wondering what bloggers have to say about that topic. Click the Sphere It! icon and in seconds, you'll land on a search results page with links to blog posts along with additional news articles that match the subject of the article you were reading.

3. Note that the Sphere It! Bookmarklet finds blog posts related to the content of the page you're reading, instead of just using links, so it works best on a page that discusses a single story, such as a news article, rather than a page that contains fragments of many different stories (of course, try it on any page, you might be surprised how well it works. Have fun!

   

Sphere Chumby Widget

The chumby is a compact device that displays useful and entertaining information from the web: news, photos, music, celebrity gossip, weather, box scores, blogs — using your wireless internet connection. Always on, it shows — nonstop — what's online that matters to you.

You can configure your Sphere widget on http://www.chumby.com to search for blogs on your favorite topics and display the results on your chumby! You can even show off your live search results by embedding a virtual chumby on your website, blog or social networking site!

To add the Sphere widget to your chumby or virtual chumby:

1. Go to http://www.chumby.com and create a chumby account (it's free!).

2. Log into your chumby account.

3. From the menu bar, select Widgets > My Channels.

4. Under "current channel" select the channel you want the widget to go into.

5. In the "categories" window, click on "News".

6. In the "widgets" window, click on "Sphere".

7. Click the "Add to channel" button and the Sphere widget will be added to your widget list.

8. Click "customize", enter what you want to search for, and then click "sphere it!" (the default search term is "chumby" until you change it). Add as many searches as you like by separating the words with a comma.

If you want to create a virtual chumby, click "my chumby" and copy the HTML under "Add code to blog or website".