9 Useful Social Media Extensions and Plugins
Nov 18, 2009 by Patrick Winfield | Social Media Marketing, ToolsFor any social media user at any level, add-ons and plugins can be of great help in saving time and creating new opportunities. Some of the listed are for specific sites, while others are more general. Check out some of them and see if anything can work for you.
Social Media for Firefox Extension
This tool is the the ultimate time saver for 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. For example, you can browse Reddit to find good stories already submitted and be the first to submit them to Digg. You can browse Digg and be the first to Stumble pages that are becoming popular there.
StumbleUpon Add-Ons
StumbleUpon helps you discover great websites that match your interests. Simply click the Stumble button and see the best websites. There are over 500 topics to choose from, and, the more you use it, the better your recommendations become!
Digg Firefox Add-Ons
As you browse the Web, you can see whether or not the web page you are currently viewing has been submitted to Digg and, if not, it lets you submit it with just one click.
Glue for Firefox Extension
Glue (formerly BlueOrganizer) connects you with friends around things you visit. Glue works automatically as you browse popular sites about books, music, movies, wines, restaurants, gadgets, stocks, actors, TV shows and other everyday things around the web. The Glue Bar appears right on your current page to show you friends who looked at the same things and what they thought.
Shareaholic for Firefox Extension
If you use sites like Facebook, MySpace, Digg, Gmail, and Twitter, you’ll want Shareaholic. Winner of the Extend Firefox contest, Shareaholic enables you to quickly and very easily share, bookmark, and e-mail web pages via a wide array of your favorite web 2.0 social networking & bookmarking sites — such as Digg, Facebook, Gmail, MySpace, StumbleUpon, and many many others. This is the ultimate add-on for the link sharing junkie.
Add to Any Buttons
Help your visitors share, save and subscribe to your content with Add to Any widgets.
Add This Button
Makes it easy for your visitors to bookmark and share your content with others.
Yahoo! Buzz Buttons
Stories with the most Buzz may be published on the Yahoo! home page – you can impact what millions will see on Yahoo!.
ul.timate.info Add-Ons
The Mozilla Firefox add-on aims to simplify the way people interact with social network sites including Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and FriendFeed.
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I have read the article based on the social media and their facilities regarding the Extensions and Plugins.Firefox and others browser provide the Add-ons and facilities which are very interactive from user side views.I agree that Stories with the most Buzz may be published on the Yahoo! home page – you can impact what millions will see on Yahoo!I want to know some other plug-ins and add-ons.
Thanks for expendign my knowledge on this subject, because only Digg is familiar to me fron those resources which you've mentioned.
Digg, and Add This is a must! Thanks for sharing.
It's really convenient to find all the necessary information about Social Media in one article – thanks for sharing!
Really cool article. Having these extensions help us in having in touch with all those.
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