SponsoredTweets Releases Firefox Extension for Advertisers
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While making the rounds this evening, I came across a new tool that really struck a vein with me. As you may know, I really enjoy using Firefox and Twitter. I also like that whole making money thing as well.
So when I found out that SponsoredTweets had released a new add-on for Firefox, I had to check it out. Here's a sample video about the new SponsoredTweets plugin:
SponsoredTweets Lookup Firefox Add-on from Daniel Goodwin (@dascgo) on Vimeo.
Ok, so with this new add-on you can identify folks who are members of SponsoredTweets and be taken to their profile so you can create a new offer for them to take. That's a pretty cool feature, indeed. But the more I thought about this tools potential, the more I began to try to escape the proverbial box in which I was thinking.
What about finding out SponsoredTweet's pricing scheme? If a user doesn't change the amount they charge (using the amount that is assigned to them by ST), one could rather easily begin to compile a spreadsheet with followers and pricing information. This information could be valuable for both people looking to save a buck or two on advertising and also for IZEA's competitors.
Either way, it's a pretty sweet plugin.
Download the SponsoredTweet FireFox add-on here.
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Juice for Firefox Now Public
From Techcrunch:
Juice, a Firefox browser sidebar developed by Linkool International, has launched to the public. The powerful plugin automatically culls information from around the web whenever you search for or highlight a term, making it a handy reference tool that I could quickly get used to. It also doubles as a media storage tool, allowing you to simply drag and drop videos and image files into the sidebar to save them for later.
Juice pulls from sources including Wikipedia, Google News, YouTube, and our own CrunchBase (through its API) to offer users a quick at-a-glance summary of many popular topics. The sidebar is very polished, allowing for in-line video playback and expandable text summaries, and the media storage function is intuitive.
At this point it seems that the plugin’s database is still fairly small, as many searches (even for such common terms as “Superman”) result in a notice that “Juice has learned a new keyword”. Within a few minutes these new terms are added to the database automatically, and the issue will probably be gone within a few weeks of the public beta.
Juice's rocking webcast from Linkool Labs on Vimeo.Juice is the first application from Beijing-based Linkool Labs to integrate the company’s “intelligent discovery engine” which uses “natural language processing” and “a dictionary management system” to produce semantic results. It’s impossible to tell just how much processing is going on behind the scenes, but search results are generally accurate, though it’s possible to find some words that will “trick” the system.
There are a number of Firefox extensions that offer integrated reference lookup, including CoolPreviews, Briteclick, and others that can be found here.
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