On July 7th they entered “public beta” (aka you can use it now and it’s going to be an ongoing project that will never actually have a real release, much like every other web 2.0 site.)  Looking at their updates on the main page it seems like they’re coming out with new features for it somewhat regularly.

When you come across a PodiPodi enabled site, you can hold shift and press space. You’ll then be presented with a text box in the top left corner of the page that looks similar to this:

Empty PodiPodi command box.

You can then type a command into the box and hit enter, in this case I’m searching Flickr for the term “nature”:

Searching Flickr for nature through PodiPodi

After this, hitting enter will execute the command and the results will be displayed in the middle of the screen:

PodiPodi Flickr Results for the search term 'nature'

The features currently supported include:

• calculate (calculates a simple mathematical expression)
• find (finds text on the site)
• flickr (searches flickr)
• google (searches google)
• google images (search google images)
• open (opens a section of the site)
• send comment (sends a comment to the web master)
• twitter (gets the 20 most recent updates for a twitter account)
• yahoo (searches yahoo)
• yahoo images (searches yahoo images)
• youtube (searches youtube)

If you’re looking for a quick way to “integrate” your site with all of these different services and also add a few neat (read somewhat useless) features to your site, this offers that, along with a very nice and unique user interface.