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Friday, December 26, 2008

Free KnewCo discovery button now available

Jan Velterop, The discovery of more knowledge (in repositories, research web sites, blogs, and the like), The Parachute, December 23, 2008.  Jan is the CEO of KnewCo.  Excerpt:

In my previous post I was announcing the knowledge discovery 'button' that could be used to enhance any repository, science blog, or any researcher's, scientific society's, or publisher's site for that matter. Well, it is here now. Available to all. Incorporation of a small bit of code will equip any site who wants it with the knowledge discovery 'button' as you have it on this [Jan's] blog in the upper right hand side (the orange one that says "discover more...")....

It really is a small bit of code that needs to be incorporated, and the fact that I managed to do it myself in this blog should give confidence to even the least HTML-savvy person that it really is easy....

Just cut and paste it in the code of your repository, web site or blog and enhance its ability to serve up relevant additional knowledge to its readers....

PS:  See Jan's previous post on this button or our excerpt from it.  I haven't included his example in the current post because it works best on his site where you can click the button and test the resulting links.  Click through and give it a try.