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Identify Analyses Profiles Across Social Networking Sites

Martin — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:25:17 +0000

Identify is a Firefox extension that can be used to retrieve information about individuals on social networking sites. It works by visiting a profile page on a site and pressing the [alt i] keyboard shortcut to open the Identify overlay. Mac users press [ctrl i] for the same effect. The Firefox add-on will then display a stylish overlay containing various information about the selected individual including – if available – a link to the homepage, a short about me paragraph and links to other social networking and media sites that the individual has accounts at.

Below is a screenshot of how the information are displayed in the web browser. Example of Identify showing Sarah Perez’s information.

The developer does not provide extensive information about how the Identify add-on calculates the data except for the following short sentences found on the project page:

It makes extensive use of Google?s Social Graph API to find out about which sites an individual has profiles on and then uses YQL API to collect the information.

It can obviously only be executed on supported sites. The usual suspects like Twitter, Digg, Flickr or Friendfeed seem all to be supported by the add-on while sites like Ghacks are not. A link is provided for each identified profile on another service making it very easy to follow the trail of the individual.

Tags: digg, firefox, firefox-add on, firefox-extension, flickr, friendfeed, identify, twitter

10 Annoying Aspects Of Tech Blogs

Martin — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 19:29:11 +0000

Good old Rarst posted another interesting article today about 10 things that make tech blogs unreadable. He has become quite the little ranter over at his Rarst stronghold but I have to admit that he has a point.

His post got me thinking about aspects of tech blogs that I dislike and I came up with enough stuff to make my own /diggworthy/ list. Interestingly enough that is also number one on my list..

1. Writing For Digg or Other Social Networks

The 10, Top 20, The Best.. Many articles that are written to make the Digg crowd digg the article. They seem to love top lists. And yes, I’m very well aware of the irony that this post is one.. Many people love those posts but I have to say that I avoid them at all costs unless they are special. Consider that before writing about the Top 10 Firefox extensions everyone should use or the Top 50 iPhone applications for iPhone owners.

2. It is English

My English is not perfect and I get regularly bashed in the comments because of mistakes I make. But, there are some blogs out there that are really hard to understand because of the grammatical structure and choice of words. If I read something and have to guess what the author meant because of the grammar then it is game over for that blog. Unless it is really unique.

3. Repetition

Seeing articles about the same news story that originated from one source on dozens of tech blogs is something that makes me click the Delete button in rapid succession. I do not want to read about it if all that you are doing is repeating what the source already wrote. Adding information or opinion is required to keep my fingers from itching.

4. Not Linking To The Source

There are actually two aspects that annoy me here. The first is when a blog is not linking to the source it got the news from. One rule of journalism and scientific writing is to always mention the source. If you do not mention it you land in the trashcan. Yes, many respected online magazines do not like to link to (or only sparsely) other websites.

Some sites on the other hand link directly to a file that they reviewed instead of the developers homepage. That’s a no-no

5. Blogs That Are Not offering Full Feeds

Offering only partial feeds might be a way to get a little bit of traffic from visitors who read the first paragraph of an article in their feed reader. It will on the other hand annoy many tech savvy users who do not have the time to visit hundreds of websites each day to read all the articles that they could not in their feed reader. If an article is interesting enough the readers will come because they might be interested in the comments as well.

6. Advertising Instead Of Reviewing

Some companies like to buy reviews to get backlinks and exposure on the Internet. This would not be a problem if the author of the article would disclose that fact. Sometimes they do not. If it is to obvious the blog will be deleted from the feed reader.

7. Writing Unrelated Articles

Stick with the tech stuff if you run a tech blog. I’m usually not interesting in reading stories about stuff that is not tech related. If it happens occasionally that’s fine but if it’s a regular thing I’m gone.

8. Internal Linking

Linking internally can be a great way to provide readers with additional information about a certain aspect of an article. Some websites overdo it on the other hand and always link certain keywords to certain pages on their website even if the information is not related at all.

9. Dividing articles on pages

Dividing a top 10 list on ten pages might increase the pageviews tremendously. It will however annoy the hell out of many readers who have to use the print feature to read the full article on one page. It gets complicated if these sites do not offer full feeds or a print option.

10. Filling a Top List To Make It Look Better

People digg top 10 lists but they might not like your fabulous top 17 list. That’s why you have decided to fill it with three not so fabulous entries to be able to post a top 20 list. And yes, this is another excellent example of a filler..

Your turn. Got anything to add? Let us know in the comments.

Tags: annoying sites, annoying websites, digg, rarst, tech blogs, top list, websites

Alexa’s What’s Hot on the Web

Martin — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:00:34 +0000

Alexa announced a new service a few days ago. Their What’s Hot on the Web service aggregates data from all Alexa toolbar users to provide a list of the hottest, i.e. the most visited, links of users who have the toolbar installed. One could say that it is similar to Digg but with a lesser chance of manipulation and an even greater preference of popular news sites like Yahoo, MSN or The Times Online.

The What’s Hot on the Web currently features three pages with a total of 50 links and links to many empty pages at the bottom which will surely be filled over time. Even more surprising than the empty pages is that the link to page 2 is missing. Visitors can access the homepage which contains the 20 most popular stories “right now” and then head over to page 3 since page 2 is not visible anywhere.

Visiting page three however displays an url that can be manipulated to be able to visit the second page as well. Simply changing the 3 at the end to a 2 will load the second page with the links 21-40.

Alexa’s What’s Hot on the Web provides another nice overview of some of the hottest topics on the Internet currently. It’s basically similar to services like Google Trends, Delicious Popular or even Digg. If you like those kind of sites you will also like this one.

Tags: alexa, amazon, del.icio.us, digg, google trends, popular links, popular websites, trends, website trends

Credible Reporting eh?

joshua — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:24:12 +0000

I use Digg (on occasion), StumbleUpon and sometimes Google News. The New York Times and Techmeme satisfy the rest of my needs.

I didn’t really think I could be interested in yet another crowd-powered news aggregating website… Mixx, Reddit, Regator, Social Median, Soshable, Propeller, Sphinn even… whether they’re the next Digg I have no idea… but it sure isn’t worth the time signing up in my opinion.

I was very interested in the announcement yesterday however, that a new service called ‘NewsCred’ was launching with the aim of gathering and aggregating articles based on their credibility over blind crowd popularity.

It’s a fantastic objective, one which anyone who has used Digg over the last few years would probably love to see… it’s all too common where completely bogus stories are Dugg right to the front page (and sometimes consequently removed by the "invisible hand’ of non-existent editors’).

Crowd’s usually vote based on personal preference and opinion as well… a story about Microsoft may be brilliant, well-researched and accurate… but is buried by Apple fans purely because they dislike Microsoft.

W ether or not NewsCred can get around that will be interesting to see, although it isn’t the first to attempt this strategy; NewsTrust has been around for a few years (although I had never heard of it before) and has had slow but steady growth.

The most useful and interesting thing about NewsCred is the analytics option… you can examine the credibility of a publication based on how it fared on NewsCred. Just one indicator sure… but with time it should really be a good measure of the reporting quality of various news sources.

You can also customise the NewsCred front page based on your interests and the publications you prefer. In many ways, even if the credibility factor doesn’t worry you, it’s still a good source of daily news much like Google News.

Tags: credibility, digg, google news, news, newscred, stumbleupon, techmeme

Read all Wallstreet Journal articles for free

Martin — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:48:23 +0000

The Wallstreet Journal [link] is one of those online magazines that has a subscription service that protects some of its stories from being read by users that have no subscription. Only an excerpt of the story is available for free while the rest can only be read by subscribers, or so we though.

Apparently though the Wallstreet Journal website is making referrer checks to see if a user is coming from either Digg or Google News and will present the user the full story if the check is successful. Everyone else coming from different websites or opening the Wallstreet Journal page manually will only see the excerpt.

A referrer check is one of the weakest protections because referrers can easily be spoofed. The Firefox add-on refspoof provides users with an easy way of spoofing the referrer. Read on to find out how you can read all Wallstreet Journal articles in full length for free.

Install the refspoof Firefox extension or any other utility that is able to spoof the referrer. The refspoof toolbar becomes available after restarting Firefox, enable it under View > Toolbars > Refspoof Toolbar.

Now enter digg.com in the spoof filed and select static referrer by clicking on the R icon on the right end of the toolbar. Visit the Wallstreet Journal and surf around. You will notice that all articles are available. If you disable it many articles will only display an excerpt of the story.

Is it ethical to do so ? That’s honestly not my decision to make, it is yours. I think that the Wallstreet Journal wants that traffic, wants their stories to hit the frontpage of Digg and Digg would surely ban their website if their users were only to see an excerpt of the story.

Tags: digg, firefox, firefox-extensions, referrer, spoofing, wallstreet journal

Track your digged posts from your desktop

Daniel Pataki — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:16:47 +0000

I just read about one of the best Digg tools ever on Make Use Of, immediately downloaded it and I love it already. Digg Alerter is a simple application designed to track the stories you have submitted to Digg. You can see a list of stories, number of diggs, comments, who dugg it and some other statistics.

One feature I love – as a budding full time blogger – is that I can hear my stories being dug, since it gives you a warm audio alert when such a happy thing happens. I can also see the list of people who dug my story, double clicking on their names will take me to their profile on Digg.

All this is presented in a great interface, nothing more, nothing less than needed. It resides in the system tray, consumes very little resources (4.000 K) and apart from giving me useful statistics about my stories, it is also fun, and fulfilling to watch the counter go up in real time.

Tags: alerts, digg

Newspond is like an automated Digg 2.0

Martin — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:55:34 +0000

Newspond is a web news aggregator that scans the Internet for news and publishes them automatically on their website. That’s actually a major difference to Digg where users contribute the articles. The benefit of the Newspond system is that it is less likely to be gamed as much as you are used from Digg even with their latest algorithm change.

Newspond uses a sophisticated algorithm to compute news popularity which will determine if an article will make the frontpage or not. Popularity goes up and down and this is considered in the algorithm, each article has a popularity trend that goes either up, down or stagnates.

Users can comment on stories and the comment function looks a lot nicer than that of Digg. Comments are threaded and the comment section uses Ajax to display everything without reloading the page. Nice and clean.

Talking about design. This site does look fantastic and it uses the latest technologies to increase usability. I’m not that of a design freak because I think that content is far more important but this design sticks out.

A major feature that I wanted to see implemented at Digg for a long time is the bundling of sources for a news story. If something important happens in the world you see dozens of stories at Digg that are all related to the same subject. Newspond lists all those sources under one story headline which is far cleaner and better. Some stories have more than 50 sources and users can really read some or even all of them to inform themselves.

The only thing that I would criticize at the moment is the lack of information. The about page is not really revealing lots of information about the algorithm, how articles are found, how and which websites are used as sources and the like. More information would be crucial for success. Oh, and I was not able to register. It told me that I would receive a confirmation email but I did not receive on until now.

Tags: digg, newspond, tech news, technology

How Webmasters use social sites to create a keyword monopoly

Martin — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:12:46 +0000

The regular user thinks that if he searches for a keyword in Google he will receive a listing of ten different websites that are the best matches for the keyword entered. This common believe is wrong. Clever marketers have found ways to make their website appear in all of the search results on that page or at least in many of them.

We have two different approaches though. The first is to get a so called double ranking. If two pages of a website are on the same results page the lower ranking one gets moved just below the higher ranking one. If you have the number 1 spot the lower ranking one will get the number 2 spot even if it would only qualify for number 9 or 10.

That’s two spots of ten already. What happens if you submit a site to a social news or bookmarking website ? Right, it gets a new entry in the search engines that points to the original url that the marketer wants to promote. Many social sites like Digg have such a high standing at Google that their results are often seen in the top 10 or 20 if you search for a keyword.

There is another way that is currently possible. Google treats subdomains as if they were different domains. Marketers create keyword rich subdomains that are pushed in the search engines as well. So, even if you expect to see 10 different results the reality could be different.

Tags: del.icio.us, digg, seo, social-bookmarking, webmasters

Google Reader News Aggregator

Martin — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:49:12 +0000

Readburner looks like a mashup of Digg, Techmeme and Delicious somehow on first glance but it is actually something completely different. The website aggregates shared items from Google Reader displaying those that have been shared on their pages. The service lives under the assumption that quality news stories get shared while those with lesser quality do not.

It is an interesting concept in my opinion. Several filters are offered. Users can filter languages, display popular, upcoming or recent stories and change the layout of the stories that are shown. All items are related to technology but there are unfortunately no filters to further diversify the results.

What I really like is the option to show the full story on Readburner directly without having to visit another website first but I guess it’s not different from full feeds that are displayed in RSS readers.

The developer promises to work on the project in the coming weeks to add more data and functions to it. Will be interesting to see how this project evolves.

Tags: digg, feed, google reader, readburner, rss, rss news

A preview of the future

Tobey — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:02:42 +0000

Knowing the position of every single particle in the whole infinite universe at the moment, you would be able to predict the future precisely some people say. Well, since our far advanced 2.0 technology is (and will remain for a while) still too lame to do such experiment at present, there’s no way to make predictions like that. But hey, who says we can’t attempt to guess what happens in the near future?

Of course the more people participate in suggesting what comes next the more accurate the suggestions can become. In order for this system to work, you need one place where anyone could express their idea about the future. There is such place and it’s called FutureScanner, a website (kinda Digg clone but with original idea) for collaborative future forecasting. Individual submissions are separated by category and a year when they’re expected to come true.

On the main page you can display the most popular or new items and also use advanced filters to only display some particular ones. Each of these can be voted up or down thus filtering the waste out and keeping the most interesting forecasts at the top of the list. IMHO Memebox still needs to work on the design a little bit, especially to make it work properly in Opera (!) but it appears to be quite promising project now. Commenting and RSS feeds are already implemented.

Interestingly enough, this is a third case of an event that happens quite often to me. This time, about half a year after having an idea of making a website that would allow people to work on guessing the future, I hit on a brand new startup that does exactly that. Though, I must admit they did quite a fine job. Weird how different people come to the same ideas, sometimes I feel a little like being plugged into some kind of network. Oh wait a sec, I am.. :D

Tags: digg, future technologies, web 2.0

When on Digg be careful

Martin — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:58:15 +0000

Trend Micro have published another excellent article on their malware blog entitled A Tangled Web … of Malware. It describes how hackers use popular media websites to spread malware and how their methods become more sophisticated by each passing week. The one published on the Trend Micro blog is interesting because of two aspects.

The first is that popular web 2.0 communities, in this case Digg, are being used to spread the malware. A screenshot of a Digg page shows how this is done. The screenshots shows two comments for a not so popular entry and both have a link that seems to point to Youtube at first glance but does not at second.

The url is slightly off, instead of youtube it is youtuhe and ynotube. Many users won’t recognize it and click on the link which leads to a number of redirects to a fake video site that asks you to download an ActiveX control which infects your computer. The number of redirects before the user reaches the destination is the second aspect worth noting.

Tags: activex, digg, malware, trend micro

Bye Bye Digg

Martin — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 09:22:07 +0000

I have been using Digg, the social news portal where users vote on stories submitted by users, for more than two years and I loved it at the beginning. Nowadays when I visit the Technology section of Digg I see what I already read in my feed reader. There is Lifehacker, Mashable, Gizmodo, Torrentfreak and Arstechnica on the frontpage who seem to make the frontpage no matter what they write.

The news that I read yesterday are popular on Digg today which is a shame in my opinion. I’d love to see an experiment where one of the mentioned websites is posting a bull story that leads to a “Haha, fooled you” page on their website. My guess would be that it would still make the frontpage.

I also like the hypocrisy. When a blog hits the frontpage one of the first comments is a summary of what has been said or a link to the source of the article. As if the blog did nothing but to copy. Now, when Lifehacker, who have several two paragraph posts on their website is linking to a source writes an article like this it makes the frontpage and no one is posting the link to the real site in the comments.

Besides this it is possible to purchase any number of Diggs desired for a very low price. (25 Diggs $6 for example) which turns that website into spam hell. Sure, the guys who like to bury articles are working day and night to keep the competition from appearing on the Digg frontpage but they don’t stand a chance against articles that gets lots of votes fast.

Digg has become a useless site because of these reasons and I decided to delete the bookmark. Bye Bye Digg, it was a nice time.

Tags: digg, social news

Fichey Digital Microfiche

Martin — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:05:14 +0000

Fichey finally offers a new approach for the crowded web 2.0 community by giving everyone access to the back catalogue of popular social news and bookmarking websites such as Digg, Delicious and Stumbleupon. This is just one approach of Fichey but the most important one.

A sweat little object is popping up in front when you visit Fichey and you can use that to take a look at all the sites that were popular at those websites in the past. Since Fichey is relatively new you can only access sites that were popular beginning with July the 6th of 2007.

Every site that was popular in the past is opened in the same browser tab which means that you browse one site at a time and can flip through them. It looks like Ajax was used to create the effect, looks pretty nice. Pretty good way to flip through many popular sites in a very short period of time.

Tags: del.icio.us, digg, fichey, popular sites, stumbleupon, web 2.0

Why Stumbleupon is better than Digg for Webmasters

Martin — Fri, 11 May 2007 07:48:20 +0000

Let me introduce Stumbleupon and Digg first in case you never heard of this services before. (must be living on the moon for a couple of years, uhm ?) Every user may post and vote for articles on Digg. New articles are kept in the Upcoming Stories section for a maximum of 24 hours. If the article receives enough votes in that time it will be transferred to the frontpage and drive incredible traffic to the website where the article is hosted. If the votes are not sufficient it will be removed and can only be reached using the site search.

Stumbleupon on the other hand is using a different approach. Their users vote and review sites using a toolbar. The main feature of Stumbleupon is the stumble feature. You select a category and click on stumble and a random website will be loaded. Websites will be shown more often the more votes and reviews they receive.

The difference between Digg and Stumbleupon (from a webmasters point of view) is that Digg is far more controlled by its users than Stumbleupon is. If you add a link to an article on your blog you will probably get flammed and dugg down pretty fast. The concept of Digg is that users decide if a story is worth making it to the frontpage. They can do this by “digging” (positive) the story or by “burying” (negative) it. The problem is that some “gangs” work on Digg that digg down articles as soon as they appear.

Lets say you post an article about a new version of Firefox, link to the Mozilla ftp site and describe the new features. This article will surely be dugg down simply because it is not linking directly to the Mozilla ftp site from Digg. If however a authority site comes along, let us say Lifehacker, Pc Magazine or Gizmodo the same article will make it to the frontpage without any problems. Even if they report about it later than you did.

The conclusion here is: Digg is great for sites that have a certain authority. Lifehacker could probably submit a article with no information whatsoever and would still make it to the frontpage.

Stumbleupon on the other hand is different. If you submit your site to the service it will drive traffic to your site right away. Not that much at the beginning but it is targeted traffic. If you do get additional reviews and “thumbs up” your traffic level will rise. I experienced it myself that you can very well get hundreds of daily visitors over a long period with 3-4 reviews of the site. Getting this amount of reviews is normally not a big problem, even for sites with not that many visitors. Remember that not only your regular visitors but also the users that visit your site from Stumbleupon may give you a thumbs up.

My conclusion is rather obvious. If you have a new website and want to get some traffic use Stumbleupon. Digg is only worth it if you are writing about something exclusively, new or groundbreaking.

Tags: digg, stumbleupon, traffic increase, webmasters

Manipulating Digg

Martin — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:26:27 +0000

Digg.com is one of the most important social news sites on the Internet. It is not completely user driven but comes close to that. Every registered user may submit as many links to interesting articles and websites as he likes. Those links – with a title and short description – stay in the upcoming stories section for no more than 24 hours. Every user may also vote on as many links to stories as he likes which is seen as a indicator for a stories popularity. The more votes the more users voted in favor of the story.

When a story reaches a certain amount of votes in that 24 hour period it will be published on the frontpage of Digg making it a very popular article throughout the Internet. Digg sends a large amount of visitors to that site as soon as the article hits the frontpage. Besides that other websites report about this story as well and send even more visitors to the site. Most say that the visitors that are send this way are useless for the website. Many website owners fear the Digg effect, the effect that a server crashes due to the load that all the visitors from Digg cause.

The system seems fair at first glance. Every user has one vote and can submit stories. If enough users like the story it gets promoted. This is indeed a fine system if it there were not those users that manipulate the votes either way. Some webmasters will manipulate a system if it furthers their websites. And the votes and stories at Digg can be easily manipulated in two ways.

The first way is the more obvious one. If you need X diggs to make it to the frontpage you create a group of webmasters, friends, relatives and people that get paid to digg to get enough diggs for your article. Whenever you publish a link on Digg you send that group a message and they start digging the story like crazy.

Many webmasters prefer to get digged a lot in the first hour after publishing the article because articles with many votes in a short period of time attract the crowds. Other users will recognize the article and the ball gets rolling.

Many webmasters who manipulate Digg want between 15-30 votes from people they know every time they submit an article to Digg.com and the rest of the necessary votes will be given by the Digg community itself.

The second method manipulates Digg the other way round. Instead of voting on their own stories to give them more diggs those webmasters report stories to digg as “spam or inaccurate” or the like to bury it before it can reach the frontpage. This system works pretty well, let me explain how it can be that articles get buried down just a few minutes after they have been published at Digg.

I personally think that the friend list is the key. If you add someone as your friend you see his submissions, his diggs and comments. Instead of adding real friends you add those webmasters whose stories you want to bury. Whenever such a webmaster posts an article you see it immediately and send an email to your friends who bury the article.

By manipulating articles that deal with a certain topic they can push their articles – the only ones that do not get buried – to the frontpage. This is like creating a monopoly on certain news items on Digg.

Both ways of manipulating Digg have no justification and the Digg team should do everything in their might to prohibit Digg gaming. Instead of burying stories it could be very useful to make it possible to vote negatively for a story which would subtract one positive vote from the article. This would make it much harder to bury articles in the first minutes of appearance.

Someone suggested that Digg should prevent that articles could be voted from direct linking to them but I do not think that this is practicable at all. Many plugins for websites and browsers like Firefox exist that rely on this feature. How many websites have you seen lately that have “digg this” buttons all over their articles ?

Digg could probably analyze gaming patterns and manipulate those accounts as well. Instead of banning them outright their votes would not count anymore. It would be shown but it would not count. Same would apply to buries.

Have another idea ? Let me hear it.

Tags: digg, digg for money, digg gang, digg this, game digg, manipulate digg

10 must-see Opera Widgets

Martin — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 21:05:52 +0000

Firefox has its extensions, Internet Explorer its plugins and Opera has Widgets. They basically mean the same: addons for your browser of choice that add functionality to it. I don’t think that Opera deserves to take the third place in the ongoing browser war, it’s fast and resource friendly and many users who rely on Firefox or Internet Explorer should at least take a look at it and evaluate it for themselves. They might be surprised about Opera after all.Widgets for Opera come in all colors and shapes and you can compare them pretty much to the excellent list of extensions that are available for Firefox.

The major difference is how they add the functionality. Widgets for Opera usually open in their own window (like a mini sized popup) and one can opt to have the widget always on top. This means that they stay on top even if Opera is minimized. I actually prefer to browse the Opera website for Widgets because it looks much cleaner and professional than the one for Firefox. Not a fan of the windows marketplace at all. All widgets are free to download which is another similarity that Opera and Firefox share. Enough of the babbling, here is the list of 10 must-see Opera Widgets.

Video Downloader – lets you download videos from many video sites including youtube. It is a little bit different from the Firefox extension with the same name. This Video downloader opens a small popup and requires you to paste a link of the video into it. It displays the download link afterwards.
Gmail Checker – displays a very small icon with the amount of mails currently unread in your inbox. Can be moved around any way you like.
Image Grep – nice widget that makes it possible to search flickr, google and yahoo for tags and keywords specified. Displays the results neatly in its windows. F5 refreshes the results, a double-click loads the image in Opera.
Mini Del.icio.us – this one is fantastic. It ask for a del.icio.us username at first start and offers a quick and easy way to load any bookmark of that user.
gCalendar – read only Calendar that pulls data from Google Calendar. Great for the quick overview.
Bug Me Not – Users submit general passwords to the Bug me not database and everyone else may use those passwords to visit the website and read content that is for members only. Just enter a url and the widget searches the bug me not database and displays the results.
Pandora Radio – displays the Pandora radio in the widget window. Easy and fast access to your radio stations.
Digg Frontpage – displays the frontpage news of digg.com
Fark Frontpage – similar widget that displays news of fark.com
Bittorent – searches many torrent search engines, displays result in the widget.

Tags: addons, browser, del.icio.us, digg, fark, firefox-extensions, opera, plugins, widgets

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