The Buzz Bin

Lizzer – pronounced like lizard but without the “D”– is a bookmarklet created by Digital Sciences, LLC. The tool searches for blog posts, online documents, pictures and videos without leaving your blog editor or your email service site.

Lizzer offers seven services from an assortment of multimedia:

• the Web – Delicious, Delicious Account, Google Web or Yahoo Web searches
• Documents – Docstoc, Docstoc Account
• Image – Flickr (CC), Flickr Accounts, Google Image Search, Yahoo Search
• Blog – Google Blog Search
• News – Google News Search
• Video – Google Video Search, YouTube, YouTube Account

You can use these services to search for links to add to your email or blog. Simply enter your inquiry in the search field and Lizzer will do the rest. It provides snapshot images of pictures and videos. And for other searches, the ability to link the selected result’s URL to a word or phrase, insert the URL, video or picture directly into the blog or email, or preview the selected search result.

The bookmarklet works with the following email and blog platforms: WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, tumblr., Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, and AOL Mail. Lizzer is compatible with Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer 7.

Buzz Meter Ranking: 3 out of 4 Buzz Bees

Positive: Lizzer is a great tool for anyone to use, especially people dipping their toes into blogging. The bookmarklet provides results from an array of multimedia searches all at one click of the button. Lizzer is easy to use and install.

Negative: If you exit out of the current webpage you reviewing, the bookmarklet automatically closes. Of course you can go back and start the bookmarklet again, but it would be nice if you could decide when to close Lizzer. Another negative aspect to Lizzer was the amount of search terms. I searched a fairly popular YouTube video and only received about 4 to 5 Google search results in Lizzer.

Conclusion: Lizzer really is “linking made easy.” You should definitely test and see if this makes your blogging or email writing effortless.