I believe you are all using Twitter and Facebook and share everything you find interesting, so I wanted to recommend you an excellent plugin that does its job fast and easy. Cortex is a plugin for Google Chrome and it can be installed with just 1 click. To use it, you just have to click and hold for a second and you’ll se a little popup with sharing options for Twitter, Facebook, Instapaper and Tumblr. If you just head to one option and release the button, then it will share [...]

Kevin Rose has released the Digg v4 last month and most of the Power Users are mad about it. Along with them, there are probably thousands of other users who have expressed their indignation about the new Digg v4 works. And I do agree with them, because now users have no power and they also can’t submit stories, due to the new auto-import system. Now publishers just enter their feed URL into a field and all the articles or posts are published on Digg. Now users who worked years to [...]

It seems like Twitter really wants to earn money this year and they’ve already started with the Google and Microsoft deals, but now they will take the business into another direction, announcing the release of their own ad platform. Last year they’ve hired a CFO and now they are preparing their ad platform which will probably be all-different from all the current ad platforms we know, because Twitter has always done things the other way. Also their users aren’t used with ads, so they have to be careful, because people [...]

Twitter became one of the most popular social networking websites around and people are crazy to get as many followers as possible, which may sound right, because everyone wants to be heard and have his tweets read, though Twitter is not just about the numbers. If you’ve been using Twitter, then you should know how it works. The more people follow you, the more see what you’re tweeting, though the most important thing is how many of them care and how many really see your tweets. If you’re tweeting about [...]

Google has released Buzz recently and, like everything that gets out of Google’s labs, it got a lot of, exactly, buzz. In my opinion they’ve screwed it big time with it, being a service that has absolutely no usability and it seems like it got a lot of people mad by integrating it with Gmail. Google Buzz has almost to no features, except you can “like” and comment to the links shared by the ones you follow, but it’s hard to track and also really cluttered. Of course it can’t [...]

Probably the biggest question after Twitter got some exposure was how would it monetize without disturbing its users. After this questions, lots of answers came, though none of them was even close to the real answer, at least none I’m aware of. Bloomberg just announced that Twitter did make profit this year from its partnership with Google and Microsoft, cashing in about $25 million. What did Twitter have to do for the $25 million ? Nothing that could really disturb its users. According to me, Twitter made one of the [...]

I am a relatively active Twitter user and my native language is Romanian, because I live in Romania, but I also have a lot of foreing followers. The problem is that I talk to my romanian followers in Romanian and with the other in English. I’m not sure if the Romanian ones are very disturbed, because most of them can speak English, but I’m sure the others are when I’m Twitting in Romanian. So the idea is Twitter should allow me to group my followers, so I can Twit in [...]

StumbleUpon has just released a new toolbar-free version, but until now it’s only available to certain users, including me. So, if you don’t see it, don’t panic, probably they are currently testing it and it will soon be available for everyone. The new version features a star rating for websites and a button you can place on your website where users can vote you directly. The button also shows how many votes the page has. Take a look at it: Finally, they seem to have understood that people don’t like [...]

We all know that Digg’s algorithm is very complex and they are changing it frequently, so that spammers cannot get their stories popular. Digg states that all the content is only promoted by users and they have nobody implied in the process, but this doesn’t seem to be true. I have been an active Digg user for a while and I know a lot of other users, including power users and others. Also I read a lot of blog posts about Digg and other’s thoughts. I will try to share [...]

ReadWriteWeb has written a very interesting post about Mixx. Now it’s one year old and traffic seems to grow really fast, but still can’t be a liable competitor for Digg, receiving less than 5% of Digg’s traffic. Still, it seems to be on the good road and might grow, especially that Digg is full of spam stories, flames and unsatisfied users.