IW2000: BrowseUp!

Live From IW2000: Walking through the seemingly endless aisles of companies that do anything and everything you could imagine we happened upon a quiet little booth for a company called BrowseUp, Inc. Curious to see what they had to offer, we stumbled into quite an interesting little program that could add a lot to your "Internet experience" as so many of these companies put it.

BrowseUp is a small browser companion that lets you do several things. First of all, you can quickly and easily publish documents to the Internet with the quick action of a drag-n-drop movement. For example you can create and save an HTML document, then simply drag the file to any image on the Web you wish to link it to.

Because you are on the BrowseUp server it interconnects the pages in such a manner that any user with the BrowseUp plugin installed will be able to see that there are "user created links" on pages they are visiting.

With these links, users can find your site that you have found relavant to whatever they were just looking at, in effect giving yourself free advertising in a link exchange of sorts.

What the user receives is an online experience that makes it easy for them to find relavant information and links to say, things to do in New York while visiting Internet World 2000.

The toolbar, which is placed at the bottom of the browser window, gives you the ability to turn on and off the "user created links" as well as use a "BrowseUp" enabled search engine to find these links in other pages. Also included is a "BrowserPack" which allows you to drag-n-drop related information and pictures to your "pack" for later viewing. It seems to be a very handy tool if you were doing research or looking for a specific something.

BrowseUp is currently in its beta stages, and those interested can apply by visiting BrowseUp.com.