Sorry for the radio silence, Smub fans! We’ve been hard at work on some new offerings in the realm of instant social media sharing. More news as it develops, I promise!

Today, however, I am pleased to announce that we’ve made it possible to permanently remove the Smub banner that appears when you follow a smub.

To remove the banner, simply click the the little arrow next to the Preferences tab on the Smub banner. A little window will pop up asking you whether you’d like to permanently hide the Smub banner. Check the box and click Validate; the banner will disappear and will not show up when you follow a smub in the future!

Enjoy!

Smub now supports sharing and posting to three additional sites: Google Bookmarks, Diigo and Newsvine! This brings us to a grand total of 17 sites to which you can instantly share your links!

Got a favorite site we don’t support yet? Please let us know and we’ll do our best to get it added to the list.

If you’ve been using Smub to bookmark and manage your favorite tweets, you’ll find that you can now retweet them directly from your MyBookmarks page!

To use the new retweet function, just sign in to your Smub account and go to your MyBookmarks page. Select the tweet you’d like to retweet and click the Share button. The retweet icon will be the first one on the left!

This is just another way we hope to make sharing your online life even easier! If you’ve got ideas for improvements and new functions, please let us know. We’d love to hear from you!

P.S. Don’t forget that Smub also provides Twitter profile information with every bookmarked tweet. Sweet!

If you’ve followed a smub lately, you may have noticed a new addition to the smub banner that appears at the top of the page: Smub Tips!

We’ll be rolling through many tips you’ll hopefully find helpful when using Smub. If you got a tip or trick of your own for using Smub, please let us know! We’ll write a little post about it and kick it over to the tips bar!

We’ve added useful info to every smubbed tweet! If you’ve got smubs that point directly to tweets — for instance, as a means to Managing Your Favorite Tweets — from now on, viewing these smubs will not only provide you with the original tweet, but also provide you with the profile information of the person who wrote it.

To illustrate, I saved one of my personal favorite tweets (written by @cactus) at this smub: “http://smub.it./mariethebee/cactus.fav.” Now, when I view it, Smub gathers information from Twitter and displays it alongside the original tweet:

Now I don’t have to click over to Cactus’ profile page for more info; everything’s right there in front of me!

This is particularly useful when sharing smubbed tweets with your friends and family who aren’t familiar with Twitter. It gives them context as to the who, the what and possibly even the why of the tweet you’re sharing with them.

Since so many smubbers use Twitter, we’ve working on extra functions that address common Twitter behaviors. As of today, we now have a new option for Retweeting with Smub!

When smubbing an individual tweet, you’ll now be given the option to retweet it immediately. The retweet icon will appear right beside the bookmark icon at the top of the Smub interface:

Once you’ve clicked the retweet icon, Smub will automatically populate your tweet field with the standard “RT @name” syntax and the content of the tweet you’ve smubbed. Be sure to double check your character count, of course! The 140-count rule still applies, even if you’re tweeting from Smub.

Need help isolating individual tweets so you can smub them? Don’t worry, it’s easy! When viewing your tweet stream from Twitter.com, simply click the time stamp shown directly beneath the tweet you’d like to smub. This will open the tweet up in a new page. Since this new page has its own unique URL, you can smub it just as you would any other link! Be advised: if you’re viewing Twitter.com from your iPhone, in order to click on timestamps, you’ll need to be using the standard interface. This option is available when you login to Twitter on your phone!

In previous releases of Smub, there was a bit of problem when using Cyrillic and Japanese characters when tweeting. Smub was displaying “????” rather than the correct characters. We are happy to announce that this issue has been fixed! If you’re having any additional difficulties, please let us know so that we can address them immediately!

This new update is perfect for when you’re on the go and want to send a quick link to Twitter without having to type in a message. Now, whenever you share a link with Twitter, Smub will automatically fill in the title of the page you’re smubbing! This helps your followers know exactly where the smub leads, without your having to type in anything — particularly useful when you’re on your iPhone and just don’t have time to fiddle with typing!

Here’s an example of how this will look. For this example, I used the Smub blog:

The title of the page appears directly after the smub, and I didn’t have to type a thing.

If you’ve been finding it challenging to install the Smub.it bookmarklet to your iPhone, this update should help immensely! We’ve just created detailed instructions for installing the Smub.it bookmarklet to your iPhone. These can be found on our Tools page under the heading Install Smub’s Safari Bookmarklets for Mac and iPhone heading AND on the Smub website when viewed from your iPhone!

To view the iPhone installation instructions directly from your iPhone, navigate to Smub.com from your iPhone’s Safari and click the Learn More button at the top of the screen. The next page will provide information about the Smub.it bookmarklet. To begin the installation process, simply the click the “Click Here” text at the bottom of the screen. The next screen will walk you through the three installation steps (pictured in part below):

Of course, if you already have the Smub.it bookmarklet installed on your desktop version of Safari, you can add the bookmarklet to your iPhone simply by syncing your iPhone with your computer and following the directions on our Tools page.

Smub now offers support for three new social media sites! In addition to the slew of sites we already support, you can now instantly post smubs to Ping.fm, Tumblr and Propeller, directly from your iPhone or from any internet browser on any machine — PC or Mac!

As always, we’re striving to support all the sites you know and love, so stay in touch and let us know what sites you’d like us to add. And please check back here for more updates. We’ll be adding new supported sites almost each week!