Hyperwords

If you do any kind of Internet writing or research, you'll want to try out Hyperwords, a Firefox plug-in (coming out for IE later this year).

With Hyperwords, simply highlight a portion of text, and the Hyperwords pop-up allows you to search the web, news, blogs, photos, maps, tags and more. Google, Technorati, Amazon, Ice Rocket, del.icio.us, you can even easily translate text into or from English.

One of the features I found quite useful was the email tool. Simply by highlighting a bit of text, Hyperwords will quote that AND put a referring link into an email - a great tool if you're sending something to a friend or client.

Hat tip: Techcrunch

P.S.  I don't know why the "Read More" link came up on this post. It was a mistake.