Social Media for FirefoxThe guys over at 97th Floor have come out with a great new tool called the Social Media for Firefox Extension.

The tool is the the ultimate time saver to building powerful social media accounts. One of the secrets of top Diggers, Stumblers, Navigators etc… is being the first to submit stories already becoming popular on other social news sites. The tool lets you quickly see which sites a story hasn’t been submitted to so that you can be the first to submit it.

Building up your social media profile is something we have covered extensively here at 10e20. This tool helps you specifically with this part:

Get really good with breaking news: One of the best ways to get homepage stories before you have a strong profile setup is to be the first to submit breaking news stories. Diggers are really, really fast at breaking news so you have to be armed with your own weapons.

This will help more with finding stories that are ‘breaking’ on other social networks. In my post on how to become a Digg top user, I recommended using these two tools:

  • Rasasa: This program integrates with your online messenger (Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, Google Talk) and it delivers you news from your RSS feeds as an IM message.
  • KnowNow’s elerts: You add RSS feeds to this and a background service hosted by KnowNow starts monitoring your selected channels. As soon as new information is added to these channels an eLert is displayed on your toolbar or deskbar.

The new Social Media for Firefox extension will be a great addition to these two mainstays. Here’s what it looks like in action:

Social Media for Firefox Screenshot

I’ve been testing it out for them for the last few days and think that its a great little tool. They are also really responsive to feedback. Check it out for yourself at 97th Floor.

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Posted by Chris Winfield at 12:08 pm
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