5/11/2023 0 Comments Echofon chrome![]() It's nice to be able to see them without changing browsers. Google Reader Checker - Like Calendar and Gmail above, I read all my RSS feeds in Google Reader. Google Mail Checker - This is the heartbeat of my digital world. Google Calendar Checker (by Google) - I live by my Google Calendar. ![]() This extension does the trick.ĭocs PDF/PowerPoint Viewer (by Google) - I hate it when I click a link on the web to a PDF and it opens in the browser.įacebook for Google Chrome - Just a nice way to check my FB news feed and wall without going to Facebook.įorecastfox Weather - I liked this extension in Firefox and I'm glad it's available in Chrome. It lets me measure clicks.Ĭopy Without Formatting - Sometimes I need to copy text from the web, but I just want plain text without markup. Use it for one day and you won't be able to live without out.īit.ly (shorten, share, and track your links) - When I tweet URLS, I shorten them with Bit.ly. Now let's look at the Google Chrome extensions I installed and why.ĪdBlock+ Element Hiding Helper - This is a must have extension. As a result, I'm giving TweetDeck another shot. Echofon doesn't make this extension for Chrome, and I hated every Twitter extension for Chrome I tried last night. I love Twitter, and I've been reading and tweeting from a Firefox extension from Echofon. ![]() The other significant change I had to make is how I manage my Twitter account. Thankfully, Adblock+ is available in Chrome, so the test may begin. I simply can't search the web without it. The most important extension as far as I'm concerned is Adblock+. I'll concede that Chrome is faster, and that's what has me rooting for this test to be successful. This entry is about how I configured Chrome to give it a fair shot against my trusty ol' Firefox. The fact is, Chrome extensions have come a long way over the past six months, and Elvis convinced me it was time to give Chrome another shot. I've been a Firefox user for as long as the Mozilla browser has had that name, and part of the reason I've resisted the switch to Google Chrome is my reliance on the Firefox add-ons. Read that how you will.Yesterday, I wrote about web browsers. Last word from Dodsworth? He had no further comment, but he did say “The timing of GeeknRolla is perfect…” Personally I thught it would last longer as an independent, having recently launched it’s Deck.ly product, which felt like a push into the Tumblr space.īut hey, I guess you have to know when to hold them and fold them. A Chrome app and further improvement confirmed it as the most powerful Twitter client out there. ![]() Even Mark Zuckerberg admitted to using it that March.Īn iPhone app continued the traction, and the desktop air app just got better and better. Not long after, in January 2009, Tweetdeck won $500,000 in Angel backing from Betaworks. It was a God-send for journalists like me wanting to track the market. Suddenly you could filter people you followed into manageable groups. At the time Dodsworth explained how Tweetdeck had largely started out as a hobby project.īut it was clear that many, many Twitter users loved his interface onto Twitter. My first interview with TweetDeck’s Dodsworth was at TechCrunch 50 in 2008 in the form of a podcast I laughingly called Butcher’s Bunch ( archive here). TweetDeck had raised a little over $5 million in funding. Bill Gross’ company, after buying EchoFon, another popular Twitter client, now controls 20% of the userbase of Twitter. That being said, we have very good sources that told us today that the deal was for $30 million, UberMedia’s largest deal yet. CEO Iain Dodsworth told me today “We’re not going to comment on acquisition rumours.” Heck, that’s his prerogative. While TechCrunch has reported a rumour that UberMedia has just acquired TweetDeck, the company itself is staying tight-lipped.
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