Hey. A few days ago, I’ve stumbled upon socialbrowse.com FireFox addon. Seriously, I haven’t payed much attention to the text description of the service, I just saw a screenshot that looked like the People bar in Flock browser and with a thought "hell yeah, now I can get it for FireFox too" I just downloaded the plugin.
Well i was all "wtf?" after the browser restart, but I felt really lazy about uninstalling it and restarting my beloved browser again, so I just decided to take a closer look at socialbrowse.
I was surprised at first when I found out that It’s a new social media sharing service that operates through a firefox extension.
After a few minutes of toying around, registering an account at socialbrowse.com and trying it out I’ve decided to keep it an use it.
It gave me an impression of a Frankenstein that is made of parts of other social media :) Why?
- Flock-like "People" sidebar
- Digg-like categories
- Twitter-like following
- StumbleUpon-like review/comment system and the general mechanism of sharing.
But it seems like this is some good quality Frankenstein, the pieces are stitched together in perfect harmony.
Ok, so the extension consists of the bar and 3 lil buttons: 1 for the SocialBrowse bar, 1 for the sharing, and 1for the comments. You can share and comment pages without leaving the page. Go to socialbrowse.com and choose people to follow, just like you do with twitter etc. The social Bar shows you the shared stuff of people that u follow. A little not annoying popup at the right bottom corner of the screen appears when someone you follow shares something.
What really pisses me off is the moronic digg-like categorizing. It’s good for the general public, but hell, where in Gods name should i Submit a SEO article? I guess reddit-like categorizing and customization would be really cool for the already not bad social utility.
Ok, so how do you install that plugin? Unfortunately, the developers decided to implement the retarded Invitation system that is ain’t doing them any good. I’ve still got 9 left, so if you’re interested - contact me via the contact form, or by any of these social networks.
Oh and Mashable are giving away 400 invitations. Pick one up here.
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