Here is a screenshot of what I have worked on at Yahoo over the past 12 months. It's called Contextual Shortcuts and it's running as part of Yahoo! Mail. As of today, you will have to use the old style interface, we are hoping to add it to the new Yahoo! Mail Beta sometime this year.
You can read about what it is in the Yahoo! Mail help pages in the Shortcuts section.
The system has many parts to it but in short the Contextual Shortcuts platform tries to indentify interesting and relevant pieces of text and then offer you an in-place user experience that is appropriate for the detected item. For example, if we detect an address, we will show you a map and let you add it to your address book. If we find the name of a place (e.g., New York City) we offer you Search results and a map. All of this without requiring the user to leave their current context (that's one of the reasons we named it Contextual Shortcuts).
We are adding more features and improving detection right now and if all goes well you will see this elsewhere too. Wish us luck.
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