Hey, Smubbers!

If you’ve created or followed a smubbed link lately, you may have noticed some changes to the look & feel of the Smub banner. Hopefully, you will like it a super bunch, but please feel free to let us know what you think.

You may also have noticed that we now use OAuth for logging into your Twitter account — just trying to simplify the smubbing process for you.

Additionally, we’ve done some bug fixing for smubbing from iPhones, particularly in regard to emailing links.

As always, please feel free to get in touch with us if you have any comments, questions or observations. We’re here for you!

Talk to you soon!

Time once again for a look at some of the links being smubbed to Twitter! Below are six of the most frequently retweeted smubs over the last 24 hours. Did you make the list?!

Universal Health Care - Change.org — smubbed by @theexpert



Why We Need a Public Option — smubbed by @theexpert






NPR: Do Record Labels Still Matter? — smubbed by gcn1



Dude Craft: Bead Me Up — smubbed by @sisterdiane






Button Floozies: “Sumptuosity” — smubbed by @sisterdiane



He Who Died on the Fourth of July — smubbed by @hotweir

It’s 4:30 PST, do you know what today’s most popular tweeted smubs were? Here are some of the most frequently retweeted smubs that made the rounds today:

* Jeff Goldblum Will Be Missed | ColbertNation.com — as smubbed by @theexpert.

The Colbert Report	Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Jeff Goldblum Will Be Missed
www.colbertnation.com
Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Jeff Goldblum

* The Pirate Bay Sold For $7.8 Million — as smubbed by @tlamouline.

* Sony’s Walkman Celebrates Its 30th Anniversary — as smubbed by @mywhiteboard.

* Nearby Tweets: Instantly find twitterers nearby — as smubbed by @janskay.

* A California Dream: Saving State Universities With an Online Campus — as smubbed by @mywhiteboard.

* Craftzine.com’s Recipe for Dark Chocolate Gelato — as smubbed by @coquette. Image from Craftzine.com

Here, in no particular order (it changes hourly), are some of the most popular smubs making the rounds on Twitter today, as reported by Twazzup.

Twitter Oversharers — first smubbed by @tlamouline.

A Physicist Explains How Online is Killing Newspapers — first smubbed by @hotweir.

Three Cheers for the Product Review (Deep Tech Dive) — first smubbed by @mcbru.

Free vs Freely Distributed — first smubbed by @freshpeel.

Who Can Possibly Govern California? (NYTimes.com) — first smubbed by @thegoodmixer.

Pictures for Sad Children — first smubbed by @bre.

It’s time once again for a selection of today’s most popular tweeted smubs, as reported by Twazzup! The top five smubs so far today:

1. Phone Evolution (Russian Doll Cellphones) — first smubbed by @bre

2. Courage Campaign | Sign the Statement of Support for Lt. Dan Choi — first smubbed by @theExpert

3. Gannett: The Bigger They Are, The Harder They’ll Fall — first smubbed by @hotweir

4. Who Killed Twitter? — first smubbed by @tlamouline

5. Twitter Support :: Reposting others’ content without attribution — first smubbed by @tlamouline

The Smub blog recently had the opportunity to ask five Smub-related questions of The Expert — the Twitter influencer who recently played a substantial role in raising awareness for the Twitter phenomenon surrounding Eric de la Cruz. If you’re unfamiliar with this opinionated, leather-clad, Bronx native, check out his Twitter stream to bask in the glory of his “expert” opinions on all topics, various and sundry. Trust him, he’s an expert!

Could you introduce yourself, please?
Name:  The Expert
Occupation:  Dependently Wealthy.  My wealth depends on whether or not I’ve got a freakin’ job.
Favorite Colors:  Black and White

How did you hear about Smub?

Heard abut Smub from David Weir.  Tried it once and was forever hooked.

How often do you *smub* a link?
I probably smub about five times a day on average.  Sometimes more.

How do you use Smub?
I mostly use smub as a link shortening tool, but that coupled with the
ability to bookmark the link is what makes it valuable to me.  I mostly smub
on Twitter, but I also routinely use the smub links in emails.

If you could have one superpower, what would it be?
To move through time.

What’s the best thing you’ve ever seen on the internet?
This is VERY old, and somewhat tasteless.  Many years ago, there was a video
making the rounds among producers.  It was put together by someone who had
worked for a televangelist.  Needless to say, it went viral …

… And then the internet came along and …. Well … http://smub.it/theexpert/preach

Many of you already know how to send your own tweets directly to your Facebook page as a status update or as a feed. But, did you know that you can “retweet” your friends’ tweets to Facebook without having to download a client or having to install a Facebook app simply through the magic of Smub? I’ll show you how!

When you’re logged in to your Twitter account and viewing your incoming stream, go to the tweet you’d like to retweet and click on the time that it was posted (displayed directly beneath the tweet)….

Clicking on the time stamp will open the tweet up in a new page. The URL for this page is the permanent address of the tweet. Since Smub works with any URL, all you have to do now is smub it! To smub the tweet, you can type “smub.it/” before the “http” portion of the URL, or use the handy bookmarklets, toolbar or right-click function found on our Tools page.

Once you’ve smubbed the tweet, the Smub interface will pop up, showing all the different places you can share your new retweet:

To share your retweet on Facebook, just click on the Facebook icon. From there, you’ll be taken directly to Facebook’s interface where you can update your status using your retweet!

There are so many ways Smub can make sharing your online life even easier, but here’s one you may not have thought of: using Smub for sharing your Flickr photos.

Right now, if you wanted to share a photo you’ve uploaded to Flickr with one of your other favorite social networking sites, you’d have to go to the photo’s page, copy its URL and paste it into the entry field of the site to which you’d like to post. This may not sound like too many steps off the bat, but when you’re posting to a site that limits the number of characters you can use, like Twitter, for instance, you have the additional step of pasting your photo’s URL into a link-shortener, copying the new URL, then pasting that into the entry field, etc., etc..

Of course, using Smub can really streamline this whole process, particularly if you’ve installed one of our Tools, like the bookmarklet, toolbar or the right-click-to-smub function (shown above). With Smub, all you have to do is navigate to the page of the photo you want to share, use the Smub shortcut of your choosing, and — Ta-Da! — you’re instantly sharing the photo, including it’s automatically shortened URL, with any of your favorite social networking sites.

It’s just another one of the multitude of ways you can use Smub to make sharing simpler. Got some favorite shortcuts and uses of your own? Please let us know! We’d love to hear from you!

Here are just a few of the interesting and popular smubs making the rounds on Twitter today.

• 5 Unique Stories of Social Media Saving the Day “How social media connections enable the community to help each other out in times of crisis.” — from @Mashable
• The True Value Of Social Networks: The 2009 Updated Model — from @TechCrunch
• Brazil Recovers First Air France Flight 447 Debris — via @tlamouline
• Twitter Fan Wiki’s listing of apps to help you manage your Twitter accounts — specifically, who you’re following and who’s following you.
• Love bing? Microsoft now has “BingTones” for your phone.
• How Big Brands can Start Testing Social Media — via @mventurelli
• Inside the Tank at Tiananmen Square. A film from Pangea Day.

Are we missing some of your favorites? Drop us a line or tweet!

Did you know you can find Smub on Facebook and Twitter? We try to stay active every day with both accounts.

On our Facebook page, you can connect with other Smub fans, while showing your support for Smub! The official Smub Facebook page pays its fans a pleasant little compliment each weekday morning. Just a little show of our appreciation for you. We also update the page with news and interesting tidbits from this blog, our Twitter and our team.

On our Twitter, we tweet and retweet interesting news, articles and factoids in smub form. We’re also paying close attention to the smubs that are being tweeted. So, if you have some information you’d like us to spread around, please make sure there’s a smub your tweet. We’ll likely catch it and retweet it!

Either place is great for leaving your comments and feedback on Smub. We really do listen to all the feedback we get and are always striving to meet our users’ needs. If you’ve got some great ideas for Smub, just let us know!

By the way, you can always leave a comment here!