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It has been a while since StumpleUpon launched Su.pr, a URL shortening servuce which was its latest initiative ti join in the URL shortening trend. It was in beta and only selected users has the chance to use it. Now it has recently released it to all all StumpleUpon users and some of the many features include:

• URL-shortening.
• Simultaneous posting to Twitter and FaceBook.
• Ability to schedule your posts (we even recommend optimal times based on your previous posting activity).
• Real-time stats on your posts (such as clicks, retweets, StumbleUpon traffic).
• Every Su.pr link launches Web Stumbling—making it easier to share and discover StumbleUpon content.
• Advanced publisher tools like an API, bookmarklet for quick posting of your Su.pr links, WordPress plugin and the option to get short URLs on your own domain.

And there you have it!! be sure to try out Su.pr but you have to be a member first before using it and get back to us after giving it a spin.

Seesmic Desktop 0.3rc launched last week — now it is on to version 0.3 and they have got it released just a while ago and here are all the many many new features you can expect from this new version, so be sure to check it out and tell us what you think:

Multi-Account Posting with Smart Account Enabling:
We’ve upgraded the user interface to select which accounts to send posts to, saving you the time and effort it takes to post to each account separately. We’ve also added an option for Smart Account Enabling. With this feature turned on, this will allow Seesmic Desktop to change accounts when messaging your friends based on whom you are replying or direct messaging to. Seesmic will not change the accounts if you do not enable Smart Account.

Authenticated bit.ly Integration:
You can now use your own bit.ly account when using bit.ly as a shortener for Seesmic Desktop. By simply entering your bit. ly API key, you can now keep track of your URL clicks when sharing your links with your friends and followers.

New Services Panel:
Along with bit.ly, we have set a foundation for managing your accounts for sending images, and be able to set them in our new Services Panel. The Additional Integrated Account Services panel currently includes image services such as Pikchur (where you can set your own account), Posterous, TwitPic, Twitgoo & yfrog (which is currently using your twitter account). More importantly, this allows us to give you more options for integrated accounts with other services that will be coming soon.

Continued UI modifications, enhancements and fixes:

• We’ve made continued modifications to the Seesmic Desktop user interface saving time when using Seesmic Desktop and space when reading your stream.
• Some of the enhancements include:
• Minimizing the message panel until you start entering messages to send
• Enabling replies in your Facebook friends’ avatar to quickly add comments
• Inline reminders of what account you are posting from
• An added “Cancel” button to erase your messages in the message panel
• Updated scrolling arrows for enhanced browsing
• Ensuring all replies appear in your integrated timeline
• and many other additional fixes

Tumblr is a great micro-blogging service and it has a lot in common with Twitter like reblogging and liking other posts, but it’s always great to let people know what stuffs you have liked recently, so Tumblr is now testing a new feature: Share posts you’ve liked. By enabling it in your Tumblr preferences, you can let your friends know what posts you have liked recently. This is  a very nifty features which only friends can have access to — permission to access the content will be denied to anyone who are not your friends. Try it out and tell us what you think.

The problem with existing RSS feed measurement services nowadays is that — there is never a best way to count all the RSS subscribers out there who have many many ways to subscribe to your RSS feed on apps like Twitter, Google Reader and many more. But now, FriendFeed the social aggregator might have just made the subscribers stats a bit closer to the actual values. From now onwards, FriendFeed subscribers counts will be included in the total RSS subscribers count. Now that is good if you also share your RSS content on your FriendFeed account, it makes measuring the RSS subscribers a whole lot easier. And with the widespread use of social networking and social bookmarking, stuffs get shared around so it’s pretty hard to get the actual RSS subscribers count right. But on a side-note, you should start subscribing to our blog by RSS or Twitter if you have not!!

Like Twitter, there are a lot of Digg apps and add-ons out there and since we also use Digg a lot, we have reviewed and compiled a great list of 60+ Awesome Digg Apps, Mash-Ups, Plugins And Services, If you liked this post, please go ahead and give it a little digg [we know you want to ] or feel free to retweet it on Twitter and share this great list around!!

Apple Mac Desktop Digg Clients

• EventBox: We showed you this app before. EventBox is like a Friendfeed app for Mac in which you get updates from the various social networking services and update them at one go.
• DiggUpdate: A menubar app that gives you quick access to the latest front page stories on the Digg homepage. Windows version also available for download.

Apple Mac Dashboard Digg Clients

• Dugg: A Digg widget for Mac OS X Desktop with a slick interface and search function.
• Diggit Widget: Check this out!! Another great Digg widget for your Mac perfect for reading Digg posts!!
• Social Responsibility: Another simple dashboard widget for your mac that lets you browse a variety of categories from Digg.
• Digg.com RSS Widget 3.1: This widget gets the latest headlines from digg.com every 15 minutes and displays them in a pleasant interface.
• Digg Submission Widget: Submit stories directly to Digg using this great widget
• digg.com Widget: Another neat Digg widget.
• diggdash: Another Digg widget alternative with a minimal interface.
• Digg News: Displays the latest news from digg.com and clicking on the news will launch it in your browser.
• Digg Widget: Simple and easy Digg widget with a Digg theme and feel.
• digg.com Feed Reader: A digg.com feed widget. Displays a custom feed, based on the search term (or topic) entered. Supports multiple instances
• Digg Images Widget: “Digg Images” automatically finds the latest front-page stories submitted to digg.com containing photos, pictures and images.
• Diggnation Video Widget 1.0: Watch the latest Diggnation video podcast with this cool dashboard widget.

Adobe AIR Clients (Cross-Platform, supports Windows, Mac and Linux)

• DiggTop: An awesome Adobe AIR Digg client that lets you view the latest digg stories and set up keywords and Digg count filters to track the stories you want.
• Digg Reader: Read the latest stories from Digg right on your desktop.
• Digg Desktop Widget; Another great Digg desktop alternative.
• miniDigg: A digg.com widget that allows you to view and track stories

Mobile And iPod Touch/iPhone Applications

• Official Digg Mobile: The official de facto Digg mobile app from Digg.
• Digg River: A very neat and streamlined mobile Digg interface. Browse topics easily and see the latest Digg posts in a compact and easy way. Login to start digging on the site as well using a quick Digg button.
• Digg Mobile: A very awesome mobile phone Digg app that works on many devices like the Symbian, BlackBerry, Pocket PC, Android, Java (J2ME)!! Now you can share stories wherever you are- on the train or in a line at the grocery store.
• Digg Mobile Beta: Another mobile Digg site alternative.
• Digg Mobile By Original Signal: A very minimal Digg mobile site for quick loading on your mobile phone.
• dgm8: Digg on your mobile phone
• Popurls Digg mobile edition: Popurls has a quick mobile digg interface as well.
• Skweezer Digg: A quick way to view the Digg homepage in a lightweight interface.
• Digg Mobile: A quick hack using Google Web Toolkit to create a great Digg mobile site, with the choice of having images or no images. [add &_gwt_noimg=1 at the back of the URL for no images]
• iStumble: iStumble is an iPod Touch/iPhone app that lets you stumble on the latest stuffs in social media, on Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit and Delicious as well as rate them as well by logging into your accounts.
• Diggle: Yet another Digg client on the iPhone.
• Upcoming Digg: All the latest upcoming stories in one neat webpage.

Digg Browsing/Tracking/Visualizations Tools

• Digg Pics: Track the latest Digg pics and images as people digg and submit them on a fast-paced interface app from the Digg Labs
• Digg Arc: Another great Digg interface from Digg Labs for visualizing the latest Digg activities. Digg Arc displays stories, topics, and containers wrapped around a sphere. Arcs trail people as they Digg stories across topics. Stories with more Diggs make thicker arcs.
• Digg Big Spy: All the latest Digg headlines move down from the top down the list. Bigger headlines have more Digg and appear more as they get dugg.
• Digg Stacks: Looks the best so far, Digg Stacks show the latest diggs occurring in real-time as diggs fall from above and stack up on popular stories, and more brightly-colored stories have more diggs. You can also click on a particular story to view its latest trends and recent activities. A really great way to track popular and cool stuffs as they get dugg.
• Digg Swarm: Another great Digg visualization app that lest you see which stories have more digg as they get dugg.
• Digg Friends Venn Diagram: Visualize your friend and fans in this quick Digg mashup.

Other Digg Stuffs And Mash-Ups

• Flock: A specialized browser for social networking lovers, Flock lets you have access to the latest updates in social services such as Digg, Twitter, YouTube, Flick and many more.
• Digg Interface By Original Signal: Check this out: this is a really great interface to browsing all the latest Digg articles on one page with their categories sorted out neatly.
• DiggView: See the latest promoted stories on Digg in one great page.
• Twiggit: Let your Twitter followers know what you are digging through this great app.
• Digg On Twitter: Now you can track the latest diggs through your Twitter account. Avaliable in many forms like Digg Homepage and Digg 2000.
• Digg On Facebook: You can also share the latest stuffs from Digg on your Facebook through methods like Facebook Connect and Facebook Feed Import
• DiggBar: DiggBar is the official Digg toolbar that enables you to Digg, read comments, find related content, and share stuff from any page on the Web, all in a quick and easy short URL form, making it easy to share it anywhere on your social services.
• Digg Google Gadget: A slick Digg gadget on your personalized iGoogle.
• Digg MySpace Widget: If you are still using MySpace, you can check out the latest Digg news from MySpace using this great widget!!
• Google Digg Coop Module: Bring the power of Digg social news to your Google search results.
• Netvibes Digg Widget: Add top Digg content to your netvibes page.

Digg Buttons, Icons And Generators

• Official Digg Widgets: Official widget from Digg with lots of customization.
• Social Blog Badge: Link and direct your blog readers to your social profiles and services like Digg, Flickr and Delicious.
• Flash Mini Digg Viewer: Latest news from Digg in a small flash container.
• digg Widget: Another cool Digg widget from Spring Widgets.
• digg widget: A wordpress plugin that displays your past 10 dugg stories and make it a widget
• Digg Digg: Another great wordpress plugin that integrates “Digg Button” , “Reddit Me Button” , “Dzone Button” and “Yahoo Buzz Button” into your WordPress Content with loads of options.
• Digg Button Generator: One of the best and nicest Digg button generator I have ever seen. Just fill in the forms and choose a button you like to start generating the Digg button.
• Digg Generator: Generate many Digg buttons using this quick tool and grab the javascript to paste on your site to let others digg your post easily.
• Digg Javascript Generator: Another great Javascript Digg generator alternative.
• FastDigg: Digging the fast way using only your keyboards.
• MySocialButtons [Digg]: A huge and wonderful collection of Digg buttons around the web.

More Digg Resources, Lists And Collections

• Complete Digg Tools Collection
• Digg Toolbox: 50 New Tools and Resources
• DIGG TOOLBOX: 50+ Digg Tools and Resources
• Digg Tools By Catagories
• Giant List Of Digg Tools

Opera 10 Beta launched a while back with lots of new and innovative features and updates. Now the Opera team has got something new to show us — Opera Unite. We do not know how to put Opera Unite in words — but it’s like a cross between the web and a web browser. Previously, if you want to share something, let’s say a video, you would most likely upload it on YouTube and then tell your friends the link to the video. Now, with Opera Unite, its takes out the middleman and make use of your browser as a sharing portal which is pretty nifty. Currently, some of the main features highlight include:

File Sharing
Securely share a file from your personal computer without waiting to upload it. First select the folder from which you would like to share files. Opera Unite then generates a direct URL to that folder. By giving that link to your friends, you can share files without routing through a third-party Web service.
Web Server
Run entire Web sites from your local computer with the Opera Unite Web Server. After selecting the folder containing your Web site, you can share and host it from the given Opera Unite URL. Opera Unite will automatically recognize index files and create the Web site as you designed it.

Media Player
Rock out wherever you are by accessing your MP3s and playlists from any machine. After selecting the folder containing your playlist, use the Opera Unite direct link to play your tracks directly in any modern Web browser.

Photo Sharing
Share your photos direct from your PC, without uploading them online. Once you select your photo folder, the photo-sharing service will create a thumbnail image gallery of your photos. Clicking the thumbnail will present the photo in its original resolution.

The Lounge
The Lounge is a self-contained chat service running on your computer. Your friends can access the chat room via the direct link, which will not require them to sign into any service. Depending on your privacy settings, you need only provide the generated password to your service in order for people to log in to your chatroom.

Fridge
Post a note on your friends’ virtual refrigerators. By sharing the direct link to your refrigerator, you and your friends, family or colleagues can exchange notes securely and privately in real time.

Opera Unite is available in a special version of the Opera 10 desktop browser and will run within the browser and is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. The Opera team talks of more services to come in addition to the six basics services — we are very much looking forward to a Twitter or Facebook app or some sort.