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New tool for website promoters/link addicts

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There’s a new Firefox add-on for those people who want to submit links to Digg, Reddit, and up to 34 social bookmarking sites, without having to visit each site individually.

You’ll still need an account with each site, but Social Poster allows you to submit the same info to sites including StumbleUpon, Technorati, Newsvine, Furl, Spurl etc.

It”ll be interesting to see whether it has an effect on the sites included, as more of the same links could start appearing across all the social bookmarking sites. I’ll certainly be trying it to promote my blogs and MCN’s website with it…

More convergence for online entertainment

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It seems like there’s a new story about media converging every day at the moment. Actually, it seems more like 20 per day. And most are offering something of interest.

  • StumbleUpon Video on the Ninteno Wii (Techcrunch): A good move for StumbleUpon to get word of mouth and entice all the owners of the new Nintendo console. And it’s a more efficient way of getting content that MS licensing individual companies and videos for their Live service.
  • Myspace is offering video filtering. Viacom is looking for a Youtube work around (NewTeeVee): Both these stories in the NewTeeVee round up suggest that the mighty Gootube still hasn’t won over content providers, or scared away rivals enough to be totally secure.
  • Last.fm secure music from Warner.(Downloadsquad). One music company has hitched a trailer to the social music network. How long before the others finally join up, particularly as the conversations about Digital Rights Management are generally allowing that the pirates had it right all along?

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