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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