Many people now surf Internet for sharing and creating content. Various websites provides a medium for sharing and creating content. Microsoft Corp.’s upcoming Internet Explorer, version 8, embraces those trends by adding an “Activities” feature that makes all that easier for PC users.
By using Internet Explorer 8 Activity feature companies like eBay, Yahoo, Facebook and many web service providers can write application that can be install by the PC users in just two clicks.
Think PC user reading a news article and you want to email to your friend simply right-click and choose Microsoft’s Hotmail, and the e-mail service opens in a new browser tab with that item already added to the subject line and message body. If you’d rather blog about the item, simply right-click and choose Microsoft’s Live Spaces.
Other uses for Activities include looking up definitions of selected words or translating phrases to and from other languages. Anyone can write an Activity, and each developer can choose whether to offer the thumbnail. You don’t need Microsoft’s permission beforehand. Once Activities are available for the services I use most, including Google Inc.’s Gmail and search, I can see saving a lot of time in not having to manually open new tabs and copy words or paragraphs to launch other services.
