Getting Kalled Out
| Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 | --Sean |
The winners have been announced for the BOSS Mashable Challenge (mentioned a month ago here), with the Grand Prize going to KallOut. As far as I can tell, the integration with BOSS is pretty trivial -- just pulling vanilla web results into their KallOut framework -- but it's a cool enough application with at least a tenuous connection to Yahoo! so that I don't mind mentioning it here. As a general idea, take a look at the Y! Shortcuts that pop up when you click on Barack Obama's name in this article -- you get an in-page popup with relevant news, search results, images, and so on. KallOut does roughly the same thing, except across your entire OS (provided your OS is a Windows varietal...), allowing easy access to search data, videos, maps, or whatever else seems relevant to the text you've selected in your browser, email client, document editor, and what have you. If you're interested in trying it out, you can download it here -- just be sure to change that default search engine to Yahoo! BOSS. *grin*