The stirrings of the contextual web

I wrote about Zementa recently, which sits aside your blog tool and every 300 words or so, suggests “contextual links” based on what you are writing. It works okay, but will often result in too many of what I’d characterize as “false positives” — links that don’t really fit. But it is a step in right direction. Here is tool that does a similar thing with your del.ici.us bookmarks
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InSuggest, the recommendation engine I took a look at back in February, has just launched a service that scans your bookmarks to give you links for related reading. The new tool is a derivative of the Web site analyzer which would take any link you dropped in and give you recommendations of similar sites. In that case, users could add up to three sites to get more narrowed results, whereas this tool is focused simply on where you’ve been.

For now, it’s limited to Delicious users, but if you’ve got an account there you can plug-in your user name and it will scan over what you’ve bookmarked, offering similar items by tag and link associations.

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