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Cruxlux Reveals Related Web Content

Written by Phil Glockner / March 14, 2009 7:30 PM / 6 Comments

At SXSW Interactive yesterday, I met Curtis Spencer (@cruxlux) in the hall between panels. We sat down and spoke for a few minutes and he told me about an application he was developing called Cruxlux. The name describes what the application attempts to do: Lux for light and Crux for the decisive point. In essence, the goal of Cruxlux is to analyze the web page you are visiting, and scour other web sources for related stuff, then present that information to you, summarized, and without actually leaving the current page. Although technically in beta, it is available to use without registration.

Here's how Cruxlux works. It can either be launched from a bookmarklet from within the browser, or if the web page is set up correctly, from a link on the page itself. When invoked, it opens a window over the current page, and contextual links and information start being populated. The more types of information on the page, the more links and stories are mentioned in this popup. However, the links within Cruxlux are not simple redirects to outside web pages. In fact, clicking on most links will actually give you more information right inside the popup, which means you won't be accidentally redirected away from the page you started on. And returning to that page is as easy as closing the Cruxlux window.

At this point, you can feel free to browse the information. We found lots of new related news sources and interesting byways to follow as we explored, but we must admit to a bit of confusion at times. The Cruxlux window is fairly busy and clicking certain items (like the topical slides the run along the top) cause different actions to happen.  Also, once we clicked on a topic button, we weren't sure how to return to the original set of results.

This is a relatively new app that is still in active development and we see a lot of potential with the way Cruxlux works. We are looking forward to how it evolves and grows in to its full potential.


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  1. I appreciate this add on,it helps me alot in saving my time to make my site "rich content"at the first time I was thinking that it look like copied typed tracker tools.but it is not, it is something better then just "detecting,it is something that make our site Reacher

    Posted by: PM Opinion | March 15, 2009 2:21 AM



  2. Very useful.. thanks for sharing this to us and keep us posted re developments.

    Posted by: ITrush | March 15, 2009 5:02 AM



  3. Interesting - it sounds like a reader's version of Zemanta.

    Posted by: Rob Cottingham | March 15, 2009 8:29 AM



  4. Thanks for this, saves time and is easy to use

    Posted by: Van Hire | March 15, 2009 8:47 AM



  5. Looks good and simple, I think we're reaching an overload of Twitter'esque based services..

    Have to drop this into the mix. I’d like for you all to check out HYPick.com - An easy way to post, share and discus with others in various categories.

    The most active topics are promoted to HYPick’s homepage.

    No good vote, bad vote ranking system. Just real people participation.
    Increase your audience, post your content!

    http://www.hypick.com

    Keep up the amazing work on this site and Thanks for reading :)

    Posted by: Oren | March 15, 2009 9:02 AM



  6. Sounds great! Will the Windows version of this application be
    made available in the future?

    Posted by: Cheap domain | March 15, 2009 7:36 PM



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