The Most Popular Way of Sharing Stuff in Internet is Still Email (Digg is losing its grounds while Facebook is gaining like anything)

<p><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><a target='_blank' href='http://sharethis.com/'>Sharethis</a> is a usefull web service that enables users to share interesting websites with their friends. Bloggers can add sharethis buttons to their web sites thereby making it easier for the readers to share the contents they find in the blog.</p><p>There are other similar services like <a href='http://www.addthis.com/'>addthis</a> which provide similar functionality, but sharethis is currently the most popular. Periodically sharethis releases information about people's sharing trends, which gives indication of the popularity of different sharing services. This is the chart that sharethis released recently: (Note: this is the latest chart; sharethis had published a chart earlier this month that they have now retracted as it had some errors).</p><br/><div align='center'><img height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjn7vxh1X-Z-xR_THEXnpxHI660oDXqRiDF9ALAXjbTUHdo7_uujS6zQfiw3FT2s_UkDeej4re_nnyYmzfb6OkkFvOJLitj0Ah9sqv1eJqnqrxIhgbu1fYX4-n0ZXnuGDEDG75PLycfOs/?imgmax=800" style="max-width: 800px;" width="502"/></div><br/><p>As can be seen, email is still people's most favourite sharing medium leading at 57.1%. </p>Facebook is at second place with about 21.2% people using it to share stuff. Facebook has raised their market share by 12.62% since last August.<br/><p>Digg on the other hand has lost 0.92% of users and is currently having a share of 2.1%.</p>All most all sharing services (including email) have a declining user base with AIM, Facebook and Twitter being an exception.<p>We believe we could safely predict that Facebook's and Twitter's share is going to rise while all others are going to take a plunge. What do you feel? Tell us in the comments.<br/></p><br/><br/><br/><div class='zemanta-pixie'><img class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=a535c6d4-9d3f-4118-9ed3-1f1d3ae6689c"/></div></div></p>

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TinyURL Generator Creates Shortened URLs in a Snap, Automagically!

<p><p>Windows, Linux, Mac (Firefox only): TinyURL Generator is a Firefox addon that once installed makes it really easy to create shortened URLs (using <a href="http://tinyurl.com/" target="_blank">TinyURL.com</a>) of any page you are currently reading.</p> <p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWT38Jzp2pnaYTm6ZpqWlLEXLFUeM0RCsq69iWI5fX5IpgAsTpJ7bHEbw15JrI1YHA-jIJNwg8x7jL1JxcuLhGQ46BzagMtCL1h2uaQGDW9xTupbK-oCky4T0N7Acq58dzehyDYs2eMw4/s1600-h/1233619207%5B13%5D.png"><img align="right" alt="1233619207" border="0" height="95" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtJizP3SSdbKTuVh1PBpMwW-knKNbV-m0qMroUTzNX0mExho4qaCjyZ8BG4DUVABbMYWM7wOoMrVfFzngUNfq46sd35oalPmPHYRKQNoVMzMn9qCvHUliaWPU2jyzxaJ35dlkcNSUWyHs/?imgmax=800" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; display: inline" title="1233619207" width="240" /></a> After installation, it adds a little icon to the right end of Firefox status bar. While browsing any page, click on that icon to generate the shortened URL of that page. The icon will turn into a green tick and your shortened URL will be copied to the clipboard. Hit Ctrl + V and see your new shortened address.</p> <p>This will be a great addon for regular twitters who use the Twitter’s web interface. As this addon automatically copies the shortened URL into clipboard, all one have to do is hit the icon and paste the URL into your mail client/IM window/browser.</p> <p>Note that this is an experimental addon and hence will require an account at <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/" target="_blank">Mozilla addons</a> to install. For those who do not have an account, we have uploaded the addon to box.net too.</p> <p><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10586" target="_blank">TinyURL Generator</a> | <a href="http://www.box.net/shared/46vzugqjfa" target="_blank">Alternate direct download link (box.net)</a></p> </p>

Windows, Linux, Mac (Firefox only): TinyURL Generator is a Firefox addon that once installed makes it really easy to create shortened URLs (...

Google Earth 5.0 Beta Released, Now Supports Time Travel and Scuba Diving

<p><p>Google just released a new beta version of the Google Earth product. </p> <p>The new release adds historical imagery – a feature that we would have liked to call as ‘time travel’. You can see how a region looked a couple of years early and compare it to how it looks today. GE 5 now also allows you to explore ocean floors. So if you were planning for a vacation in Australia for a lil’ scuba diving , time to cut it down and download Google Earth 5.</p> <p>For more ooohhhs and aaahhhs, view the video.</p> <div style="padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px; display: inline" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:b0ae65aa-89f4-4ad5-8d55-c8dbb3190ec6" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"><div><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GSuJq4UzkIA&rel=0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1&hl=en"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GSuJq4UzkIA&rel=0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="355"></embed></object></div></div> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://earth.google.com/intl/en/index.html" target="_blank">Download Google Earth 5 (beta)</a></p> <p>Related: <a href="http://www.dailygyan.com/2008/04/install-google-earth-43-beta-in-linux.html" target="_blank">Install Google Earth In Linux</a></p> </p>

Google just released a new beta version of the Google Earth product. The new release adds historical imagery – a feature that we would hav...

5 Web Apps to Find the Net Worth of Your Blog/Site

<p><p>About to buy a new blog but doesn’t know whether the price being asked is right? Or did the hard economic down turn forced you to sell off your blog, but you can’t decide what price to quote?</p> <p>In today’s <a href="http://www.dailygyan.com/search/label/Web%20Apps" target="_blank">Daily Web App</a> section, we introduce you to 5 web applications that’ll help you to find an approximate net worth of your site. You may need to revisit this post later. So don’t forget to <a href="http://delicious.com/save?url=http://www.dailygyan.com/2009/02/5-web-apps-to-find-net-worth-of-your.html&title=5 Web Apps to Find the Net Worth of Your Blog/Site" target="_blank">bookmark this page in delicious</a>. <br /></p> <ol> <li><img align="right" alt="image" border="0" height="65" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIWj4V4Y939WHrL2ddocZl1y2qoYFM7tzlWi1efy3ATWoF8mmCRKm_374eCy86ocpA8mAcBjRUK_0naqpphMKQRXqlgMuYK0AAQ31hahuhnLX396MsWLcL0xFtd64r0j3YFAP-TH6v0pw/?imgmax=800" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; display: inline; border-right-width: 0px" title="image" width="244" /><strong>$timator</strong> – This is a real-time website value estimator. It uses a number of different parameters including the monetary value of the domain name, quality of the website code (mark-up and HTML), past sale prices of similar websites and the current financial market status to give a most accurate value of your site (in dollar and Euro). <br /><a href="http://www.stimator.com/" target="_blank">Stimator</a> <br /> <br /> <br /></li> <li><strong><img align="right" alt="image" border="0" height="82" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH6ElTM0GDroxjMcvUr7hBS_1_-1FQFqkA74PXRjrR4As8KT0namDnGBtd3ApoLeecCNouWdNQHPpRL6RP3MpmriuZZe_irLzKOnb6y3BkFEX1Skv_c5os3Lun7L02adhaWEtiQBeI9r8/?imgmax=800" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; display: inline; border-right-width: 0px" title="image" width="244" /> Website Grader</strong> – Unlike the Stimator, this one doesn’t give you a value in dollars. Instead it ranks each website after judging many parameters that are mostly SEO related. If you are about to buy a website, use this tool to access how much search engines love that site. This might also helps you to judge the rating of the site compared to that of a competitor site.  <br /><a href="http://website.grader.com/" target="_blank">Website Grader</a> <br /> <br /> <br /></li> <li><strong><img align="right" alt="image" border="0" height="84" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBRl_I3XCxoqfS-FuODecpAttsSehcuHgjjuc3ePHNqTxFPE-3pfJdomK5vqRmI1uzYKUnSVmVCuCHJlMSNJXFwM4qp7cMSNKTR4BlJCAKYdjq-YdFLjmY3-S6OL2jpG2C_aqwH0yuZ2M/?imgmax=800" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; border-right-width: 0px" title="image" width="244" /> Website Outlook – A </strong>really simple application without much bells and whistles. Just give it a site address and almost immediately it’ll gives you back its worthiness in dollars. It also shows pretty useful stuff like the Alexa traffic rank, Google page rank, number of back links that the site has its hosting location etc. <br /><a href="http://www.websiteoutlook.com/" target="_blank">Website Outlook</a> <br /> <br /> <br /></li> <li><img align="right" alt="image" border="0" height="65" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8kMVjJSoPs-ohvq2SMJb_NCzsobGrFmLon0J5EADyBJi7-Oa0SNQdchRi05Q46eVolW7qzaiXigdV1yuIAdsO3Bam_ni3uQZ97jloLG_v83jng68c0b5dglgW_OQWfMmN171y9ZmPCyI/?imgmax=800" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; border-right-width: 0px" title="image" width="244" /><strong>dnScoop</strong> – dnScoop is a domain name value estimation tool. It helps you find out how much your domain is worth in dollars by analyzing various factors like the age of your domain name, the validity period of domain name, page rank etc. <br /><a href="http://www.dnscoop.com/" target="_blank">dnScoop</a> <br /> <br /> <br /></li> <li> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p><img align="right" alt="image" border="0" height="153" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK6IOiZ5uGWE0FQPoEQpN87Exl2uURv-Q-eAm3Yexj2KQpq301iIcKqdQelzAaUhA2oBnbLzgRlONLrogPNbWfHhoxlqJSEeKiXTmGybZbjB-sU-4G8KmhrS0AGXHCz1VXFFOcxNqfgDw/?imgmax=800" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; border-right-width: 0px" title="image" width="172" /> <strong>Website Valued – </strong>This one is a bit different from others as it uses data from <a href="http://siteanalytics.compete.com/" target="_blank">compete</a> to calculate the value of your blog. <br /><a href="http://websitevalued.com" target="_blank">WebsiteValued</a></p> </li> </ol> <p> </p> <p>Know of any better service? Let us know in the comments.</p> </p>

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SimilarWeb Firefox Extension Helps You Find More Sites Similar to the One You Are Browsing [Firefox Gyan]

<p><p>Well, the title explains it pretty much completely. SimilarWeb helps you find websites similar to the one you are currently reading. </p> <p>We have been playing around with this extension for quite some time and feel no surprise that this one was the winner of the <a href="http://www.seedcamp.com/" target="_blank">Mini Seedcamp</a> competition that was held in Israel. </p> <p>This extension adds a little sidebar to your Firefox window and shows a list of websites that it thinks is similar to the currently loaded web page. Though we are a bit grumpy on loosing little screen real estate, we have been quite impressed by the accuracy of results that SimilarWeb churns out. You can hide the sidebar and make it appear only when you want it using a button in the tool bar. In the sidebar, you can view the list of similar websites as a number of thumbnails, as a simple list or as very small icons. You can also vote up or down on the suggested websites and because of which we hope that we’ll get even better suggestions in future.</p> <p>The extension is in the early stages of development and we have noticed a number of minor quirks here and there. Overall, it tends to make Firefox a bit slower and a bit more memory hungry. We would really like to see these rough edges getting straightened in future releases.</p> <p>IE fellows will have to wait a bit longer as an IE version is under development.</p> <p>This one is a god send for students, researchers and bloggers. Get it <a href="http://www.similarweb.com/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://www.similarweb.com/" target="_blank">SimilarWeb web site</a> | <a href="http://www.similarweb.com/Download/SimilarWebFF_0.8.5.6.xpi" target="_blank">Direct Download Link</a></p> </p>

Well, the title explains it pretty much completely. SimilarWeb helps you find websites similar to the one you are currently reading. We ha...