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Facebook Notifications for Mac

This is comes handy, I liked the update status feature.

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Facebook Notifications brings notifications and status updates from the popular social networking site to your desktop.
You can even update your Facebook status at any time via a simple keyboard shortcut (Cmd+Alt+Ctrl+Space by default).
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Card.ly: Create Your Online Card

Very nice interface, good options.

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Make your “tiny” portfolio online in which you’ll be able to integrate your networks (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.), a little about you and how to contact you. Choose between many nice skins and features.

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AddATweet: The Web’s New Commenting System

I have thought about this, specially with mainstream media sites where it’s not easy to leave comments.

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When most of us have ideas, they get locked way in the portion of our brain where we house the “if only I had the time or the money to do this” spot.
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Shapiro says that he was tired of visiting sites like CNN and not being able to leave a comment without logging in, so he built a way to get around that using the browser and his Twitter (Twitter) identity. The idea took shape as AddATweet, giving us all an instantaneous way to leave a comment wherever we’d like.

AddATweet is exactly as it sounds: it’s a service that lets you add a tweet/comment to any webpage. The Firefox (Firefox) plugin supports comments by creating a browser-based sidebar where you can view, add, filter, and tweet comments.
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HOW TO: Create and Share a Twttrlist of Your Favorite Tweets

What Mashable is for social media topics, TwitterList of Squidoo may/will be for Twitter and its Tweeps

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So Squidoo, the website where you can create interactive information pages, or lenses, is launching its own solution, Twttrlist, which lets you create a Squidoo lens that compiles tweets based on subject.

The above might not be particularly useful, however, so I’ve also created a more detailed example from the #wisdomwed hashtag, in which people share nuggets of wisdom on Twitter every Wednesday. Under the screenshot is also a list of some other interesting Twttrlists to check out.

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Good.ly: Shorten Your URLs for Good

Doing some good when links are shorten with good.ly, similar to Squidoo.

I wonder if there could be a similar program on which you get paid when you promote somone’s site or blog, the problem may be of course the potential for a new kind of spammers (?)

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goodlyA growing number of URL shorteners - like bit.ly and TinyURL - have sprung up recently to make lengthy links more shareable; many also add toolbars, interim preview pages or statistics. But what if you could create a short URL and help a charity at the same time?

Good.ly, a new service from Skimlinks, aims to do just that. Whenever you want to create a link to a product or service online (say, to an item on Amazon) you can create the URL on Good.ly and 55% of any referral fees go to a charity you select on the site’s homepage. The remaining 45% goes back into running the service, the company explains. It would of course be ideal if 100% of the income could go to charity, but it’s certainly a step in the right direction.

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Own Your Identity with chi.mp!

Anyone with at least two profiles on social networks will love this.  I suspect that all who read this Clog will agree.

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Bring in the content from your sites and services from across the Web. Create your own original content. Mix it. Mash it. Use Personas to create different versions of you and your content. Push it. Publish it.

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Import your contacts from across the Web and from your computer. Get them all in one place. Merge duplicates, manage them, export them back to your computer and then connect with them from your chi.mp site. Create your Ultimate Black Book.

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Everyone could use a SecondBrain

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Whether you’re diving into social media this summer or still looking for the productivity benefit of all these online social apps, there’s a service I’ve been using the last few weeks that is worthy of you attention: SecondBrain.

What SecondBrain does very, very well is combine the content you create in 20 major social networking apps into searchable, well-organized collections. Everything from Twitter and del.icio.us, WordPress (.com and self-hosted), YouTube and Vimeo and more are grist for this Web 2.0 mill.

Further, SecondBrain is also a social network; so as you find people more adroit than you at finding good content - be it photos on Flickr or pdfs on Scribd you can start tracking what they are adding to their online digital lifestreams in realtime.Read more at webworkerdaily.com
 

I pretty much like this site, sometimes I don’t even visit my “SecondBrain” (http://armando.secondbrain.com/) for days, but when I do, I realize that all the content that I have found and added to my social media sites is there ready for sharing or even for my own future reference.