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I have blogged a bit about Internet Explorer 8 (previous posts are here) and some of the really cool features that it comes, making your web discovery and usability experience really great. Specifically, accelerators and web slices bring a whole new set of IE tools to some great web services. You can find some accelerator and web slices from popular web services like Bing, LinkedIn, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, and many more here.
One of my favorite accelerators is from Digg. Digg is an online destination that enables people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web.
You can download the accelerator here.
This new Digg Accelerator enables you to quickly Digg, Submit, and find related content from anywhere on the Web. A great tool!
Also, coming soon, is a Silverlight version of the accelerator providing a really rich experience for Digg stories.
One of the companies I work with and also leverage their service as it relates to my business network is LinkedIn. You can see my LinkedIn Profile.
I have a couple of blog posts about the new Internet Explorer 8 and its features, so you can go back to get a refresh. One of the powerful innovations in IE 8 are Accelerators (in Beta 1 they were called Activities).
Accelerators give you ready access to the online services you use everyday — from any page you visit. Now you can simply select some text and then click on the blue Accelerators icon.
LinkedIn recently built and deployed to the IE 8 Gallery a very useful Accelerator! Now with the LinkedIn Accelerator (go here to download if you have IE 8 installed) you can select a person’s name and with this accelerator you can find them on LinkedIn. Use it to lookup potential clients, service providers, subject experts, and partners who come recommended.
Additionally, LinkedIn created and deployed to the gallery an Accelerator for sharing web pages and articles to your LinkedIn network.
If you are on LinkedIn, try IE 8 and the LinkedIn Accelerator! Its great.
