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Google (disclaimer: I own GOOG stock) has a new bookmarklet that you can drag to your Firefox bar to share sites to a page on their site. Just click on the bookmarklet to add a page you are currently browsing. You can also share the page with friend(s) via email and a custom message or submit to digg, reddit, delicious, Facebook, Furl or Social Poster (who?).
Here’s my Google shared page 
. Here’s how the page looks with a test link from here:
Stats fans will note that the page shows the number of views. I’m starting to amass a bunch of these type of public shared pages and here are two I use regularly:
StumbleUpon - view sites I like and dislike and add to the service. Been using since January 2004.
Del.icio.us - my online bookmark repository. I mark most things public. Since April 2005.
I also share a fair amount of links in our IRC chatroom with our IRC bot and that’s all archived in XML on the server. Probably should take a little time and make those links shared publically somewhere, either on one of these third party services or on a page. Wonder when there will be an API to add to this list, Google (hint, hint)?
Blogoscoped is calling this a “social link sharing service” perhaps in part due to the feature that will also show you shared items from people in your Gmail contact list? I have a pretty good sized Gmail address book and so far nothing is showing on this page. Will have to test this with friends and update once I see how that works.
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I’m interested on your take of the Firefox plug-in - Shareaholic (shareaholic.com). Similar concept.
Comment by Jay Meattle — September 20, 2007 @ 8:10 am PST
Good old google can track even more data of users now ;). Asides from web history being tracked already I could also select my favorites, hmm… I think I’ll pass on this one though. I’ve just recently started using stumble upon and don’t really see a need to share interesting pages on multiple networks. Although it has upsides for the site in terms of getting more publicity, from a personal view it feels a bit useless to add stuff you like to multiple locations :P.
I wonder how far Google is going to go though when it comes to tracking stuff from their users, with the great amount of tracking linked to your account currently already being done you can definitely say “Google owns you” the moment you begin using it. Sort of scary when you think about it ;), I’m sure Google knows me better than I know myself by now :P.
Comment by Slevi — September 20, 2007 @ 8:20 am PST
Slevi - Nice to see the links on our own pages aren’t having nofollow added to them at Google. It’s not that way at delicious. That’s one reason to at least buff up your Google profile even if you never use the feature beyond a test link or two
I don’t typically crosspost the same links to multiple third party services. I tend to use each service for different purposes. Delicious (Yahoo) for bookmarks (although I still use browser bookmarks too, haven’t completely dropped that, although I keep thinking I will), StumbleUpon for random surfs and the IRC bot links are usually stuff I come across in other places of interest throughout the day or other folks in the IRC channel add. I don’t really have a central location to pull all this third party stuff together which I need to get on that for my own research/reference purposes. This is why at the end of the post I’ve been thinking about the google API. Might be more convenient to send the IRC stuff to them through an API for my shared page and burn their bandwidth instead of mine. I still have a backup of the data on the server.
As for the privacy stuff? I’m not too concerned there yet, although I understand others with those concerns.
Comment by TDavid — September 20, 2007 @ 9:00 am PST
Hi Jay - my thoughts? Sorry, don’t think I’d use that plugin enough to warrant the memory bits.
From the page:
I already have Twitter in the FF search bar, which is convenient to use as typing in a search query. I use the delicious and SU plugins already. Facebook and Google Bookmarks? Don’t use either very often. Don’t think I’ve ever submitted anything to reddit and know I haven’t used magnolia. That only leaves digg which I don’t submit very often to either.
Comment by TDavid — September 20, 2007 @ 9:10 am PST