iGlue, which wants to “wikify the web“, has raised a further $550,000 funding from private investors alongside Hungary-based Power of the Dream Ventures.
The application unveiled at the recent GeeknRolla event in London, is pretty interesting in that it creates an additional information layer over web pages by using natural language technology to understand its content. The browser widget recognizes names of relevant entities, such as people, geographical locations, institutions etc. and on the spot displays related data, images, videos, events in a timeline. 