If you are using Firefox 3 and have upgraded to the latest version of stumbleupon toolbar then it has a cool feature which you may not have discovered yet. Now stumbleupon stores your favorite stumbles and also your various stumble tags in your Firefox 3 Bookmarks.
You’ll find your favorites and tags in the ” Recently Bookmarked ” and ” Recent Tags ” section, when you click on Bookmarks in your Firefox.
StumbleUpon, without a doubt, is my favorite social networking site. It’s certainly the most innovative among the social media sites and helps users discover and share content through a toolbar.
Like every other tool or network which you use, you can understand more about StumbleUpon if you are actively involved in stumbling articles and trying out its different features.
Today, I’d like to share 5 power tips for all those who are planning to use or have been using this wonderful social media site and we hope that it helps you to further utilize it in a more efficient manner.
After the twitter mania, Friendfeed has certainly hogged the limelight since the day it was launched. For those who don’t know, Friendfeed does the job of aggregating your activity on the various social networks which you are a part of. So whether its your flickr pics, your stumbles, diggs or you tube videos , you can get them all at one place- your Friendfeed account. Ofcourse it allows you to add friends and subscribe to them so that you can get a peek into their social media activity too. You can subscribe to my Friendfeed here.
Now obviously I’d recommend you to get an account with Friendfeed and enjoy it, but you may not want to sign in with yet another social network for different reasons. But even then, if you love surfing the web and browsing through interesting stuff, you could actually get that through friendfeed without signing in.
We know that Twitter is always hyperactive with hundreds of tweets floating around every second. This presents a good opportunity to find out what are the opinions of different twitter users on a particular topic of your interest. And for this purpose, today I decided to list 5 such tools which help you to effectively search twitter in real time.
Summize is a tool which I have been using since a few days and I have found it to be very useful. It is very fast and also provides you excellent advanced search options, through help you search specific tweets very easily.
We know that the twitter community is pretty active all the time. So if you want to check whats hot on twitter and see trends related to different terms, then there is a nice tool called Twist , which is a part of the Flaptor real time twitter search engine.
Twist allows you put different terms separated by commas and then generates a chart showing the trends. So I decided to compare Obama and Hillary and check who is being talked about more, in twitter. Here’s what I got :-
Obama vs Hillary
I have been using twitter since the last few days and it certainly has been a nice experience so far. I was initially under the impression that it could be addictive but instead I found it to be a pretty good solution to boredom and the easiest way to start a discussion or participate in an ongoing discussion.
Apart from posting about interesting stuff and links, you’ll also find random thoughts and activities at twitter, which could be funny, sad, thought provoking, weird etc etc…but always with a potential to invite discussion and interaction.
Note: This is NOT a sponsored review. Here I am mentioning about a tool which helped me in my day-to-day life and hence I thought it will be good to share with my readers.
Digsby is a multi-protocol IM client and recently it was released to the public. Like other IM clients, its primary function is to aggregate your different IM accounts in one messenger window so that you can stay in touch with your friends who use different IM accounts.
I have been using Digsby since the past few days and I should say that I am very impressed by its functions. Not only it goes a step further and aggregates your social networking accounts in the messenger but also it has some cool features which make it quite useful. Hence I decided to share those features here so that you can also try it out.
