Spend a lot of time on web 2.0 websites like Digg, Del.icio.us, Tailrank or YouTube? Do you try to keep tabs on the latest news from blogs like Read/Write Web or Techcrunch? Are you trying to catch up with or learn about the latest technology bubble trend?
If you do (or would like to get better at it) now “Toolbar 2.0″ has arrived with the release of the free Web 2.0 Toolbar. It is a free browser plugin that combines the search and submit power of over 50 Web 2.0 sites and also automatically alerts you to top content posted on the same site.
With full disclosure…this is one of my latest pet projects that started just that way. As a marketing professional and a blogger, I spend a disproportionate amount of time online either surfing around sites or keeping up on the the latest news from the Web 2.0 space. Watching football last weekend, I started playing around with a toolbar app to see if I could combine alot of my online activity in one spot to save time…by half-time (typical web 2.0 product dev lifecycle?), the Web 2.0 Toolbar was born!
There are 3 key areas of the toolbar – SEARCH, SUBMIT and ALERT.
SEARCH allows you to enter a search term once and then use that
same search term on over 30 sites. The sites are a combination of social linking sites like Digg and Delicuos through picture and video sites like Photobucket, Flickr and YouTube. This is very helpful if you are both trying to research a topic and also find images and video to support it.
The second area is SUBMIT. If you have accounts with Digg, Del.Icio.us or any of the other 30 clones of these 2 applications. You can submit to one or all of them right from one button. I have the top sites listed on the toolbar now and will keep adding these over the next few weeks until I can not find any more.
The 3rd area is ALERT. These are a series of buttons for NEWS – which includes blogs, news sites and alexa “movers and shakers” under on area – LINKS – which includes the top linked or most recent links on over 10 sites. PICS – which includes the featured images on the top pic sites. VIDS – which includes the featured videos on key video sites and the bonus button, PRESS, which includes the latest Internet related releases from PRNewswire, BusinessWire and PrWeb ( a very industry focused inclusion).
The toolbar is currently a BETA and only works with current version of Internet Explorer and Firefox. Please give it a test drive and let me know what you think.
For More Information:
The Web 2.0 Toolbar Install Page
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Hello. Look at http://socialposter.com/blog/social-bookmarks-submitter/ – this will be interesting to you, it is a program that lets you submit Links to social bookmarking websites automatically! Over 20 popular social bookmarking sites.