Google Toolbar Share Button and Google URL Shortener
Tomi H�s�
December 14, 2009
"We've been busy working on even more ways to make web browsing easier and
more fun. First off is our new Share feature in Toolbar for Internet
Explorer and Firefox. This makes it easy for you to share any page on the
web with your friends over various social networks, blogs or email."
"For example, I love Top Chef and have been following it all season. Last
week was the season finale and I wanted to share head judge Tom
Colicchio's great write-up with my friends. Using Toolbar, I just clicked
on the Share button and selected Twitter. Toolbar created a new window
with the page's title, space for my comments and a link to the page
(automatically shortened by Google's new URL shortener, goo.gl)."
"You can just as easily share to Blogger, Delicious, Digg, Facebook, Gmail
or other services. For those you use frequently, you can save a step by
adding them as buttons in the settings option in the Share menu."
"With this new release, we've also "graduated" the My Location feature
from Toolbar Labs. It's now available in Toolbar for Internet Explorer
(Firefox already has a similar feature built in to the browser). After you
authorize Toolbar to detect your location, you can simply search [coffee]
and Toolbar will return search results targeted to your location. This is
done without associating location information with your Google Account."
"Last but certainly not least, Google Sidewiki is now available in nearly
all Toolbar languages, and as a Chrome extension."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/share-any-web-page-from-your-toolbar.html
Making URLs shorter for Google Toolbar and FeedBurner
December 14, 2009
"This morning, we launched updated versions of the Google Toolbar and
FeedBurner that offer a new URL shortening service from Google called the
Google URL Shortener. We mentioned our URL shortener as a feature in both
announcements, so we wanted to say a little more about how this product
works and why we're offering it."
"People share a lot of links online. This is particularly true as
microblogging services such as Twitter have grown in popularity. If you're
not familiar with them, URL shorteners basically squeeze a long URL into
fewer characters to make it easier to share with others. With character
limits in tweets, status updates and other modes of short form publishing,
a shorter URL leaves more room to say what's on your mind - and that's why
people use them."
"First, we think people who use the Google Toolbar and FeedBurner will
benefit from a shortener that is easily accessible - making it faster and
easier to share, post and email links. Second, we've built this on
Google's global infrastructure to offer the following benefits:"
"* Stability: Google's scalable, multi-datacenter infrastructure provides
great uptime and a reliable service to our users."
"* Security: As we do with web search, shortened URLs are automatically
checked to detect sites that may be malicious and warn users when the
short URL resolves to such sites."
"* Speed: At Google we like fast products and we've worked hard to ensure
this service is quick. We'll continue to iterate and improve the speed of
Google Url Shortener."
"Google URL shortener is not a stand-alone service; you can't use it to
shorten links directly. Currently, Google URL Shortener is only available
from the Google Toolbar and FeedBurner. If the service proves useful, we
may eventually make it available for a wider audience in the future."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/making-urls-shorter-for-google-toolbar.html
Google Toolbar
http://toolbar.google.com/
Google URL Shortener
"Google URL Shortener at goo.gl is a service that takes long URLs and
squeezes them into fewer characters to make a link that is easier to
share, tweet, or email to friends."
http://goo.gl/
robert roberts
> Google Toolbar
> http://toolbar.google.com/
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Why can't I use google tool bar with google chrome????
Why do I need another browser?