Smub: Behind the Smub People, Links, Bookmarks, and Tool

Ch-ch-ch-changes!

Marie — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:16:24 +0000

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!

Update: Smub Toolbar Autocompletes Your Shortcuts!

Marie — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:20:39 +0000

Howdy, Smubbers!

Everyone at Smub has been busy working on a brand new and very exciting offering! It’s hush-hush at the moment, but we’ll be able to share with you soon!

In the meantime, we’ve got a brand new, handy update for you! If you’ve been using the Smub toolbar for Firefox and IE to access smubs, you’ll find that the latest update allows the shortcut field to automatically complete your smub, based on the first three letters you’ve typed in! This is particularly handy if you can quite recollect the shortcut you’re looking for, but have some idea of what it may be!

ENJOY!

Permanently Remove the Smub Banner

Marie — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:48:17 +0000

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-It Button on CRAFTzine & L’Equipe!

Marie — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:20:29 +0000

The Smub-It button is now live on two exceptional sites: L’Equipe.fr, the website of France’s most popular sports magazine; and CRAFTzine.com, website of “the first project-based magazine dedicated to the renaissance in the world of crafts.”

From now on, at the bottom of every article or post on L’Equipe or CRAFT, you’ll see our little Smub-It button. What’s the Smub-It button you ask? It’s just a little button that allows you to share the page you’re viewing with any of the social networks that Smub supports (17, so far!) with just a click. Here’s the Smub-It button now, as displayed on L’Equipe:

We are absolutely ecstatic that L’Equipe and CRAFT have chosen to include Smub for their readers’ link-sharing needs. We really hope you’ll check out both sites, as they’re absolutely brimming with news, information, tutorials and projects!

Craftypod: Smub for Crafters

Marie — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:29:13 +0000

Podcaster, blogger, author and all-around wonderful person Sister Diane has just posted an article covering how Smub can be useful for crafters … and, really, just about anyone! Please give it a read: Smub for Crafters.

Can’t get enough crafting or Sister Diane? Check out her new book Kanzashi in Bloom, currently available for pre-order on Amazon.com.

New Sites for Sharing: Google Bookmarks, Diigo, Newsvine

Marie — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:05:57 +0000

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.

The “Smub It” Bookmarklet for iPhone

Marie — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:54:07 +0000

Posting, sharing and bookmarking links from your iPhone is even easier with the “smub it” bookmarklet! The “smub it” bookmarklet gives you the same easy-to-use interface that you would get by typing “smub.it/” to the left of the http, but simplifies the process by allowing you to “smub” a link with just a couple of clicks.

So, how do you get the “smub it” bookmarklet onto your iPhone? The easiest way is simply to install the bookmarklet to your desktop version of Safari, then sync your iPhone with your computer, making sure the “Sync Safari bookmarks” button is checked under the Web Browser section on the Info tab of your iPhone menu under Devices in iTunes. Phew…. that was a long sentence! How about I walk you through it, step by step?

STEP ONE: Install the “smub it” bookmarklet to your computer’s version of Safari.

* Open your computer’s version of Safari and make sure your bookmarks bar is visible. If it’s not visible (as shown below), go to your browser menu, select View, then Show Bookmarks Bar.

In this image, the bookmarks bar is not visible.

* Once your bookmarks bar is visible, click and drag the link below (shown in orange) onto your browser’s bookmarks bar.
Smub It bookmarklet

* Rename your bookmarklet however you like, or just leave it be as “Smub It.” Once it’s installed correctly, your bookmarks bar should look something like this:

The “smub it” bookmarklet has been installed to the bookmarks bar.

STEP TWO: Sync your iPhone with your computer.

* Connect your iPhone to your computer as you normally would to sync it.

* Enter iTunes and select your iPhone under Devices. Your iPhone’s data should appear in the main iTunes window.

* Click on the Info tab at the top of the window, scroll down to Web Browser and make sure that “Sync Safari bookmarks” is checked.

* If “Sync Safari bookmarks” is not checked, click the box and then hit the Apply button at the bottom right of your iTunes window. The next time you sync your iPhone, the bookmarklet will be added to the Safari bookmarks bar on your iPhone.

STEP THREE: Use the “smub it” bookmarklet from your iPhone

After following the steps above, the “smub it” bookmarklet should now be on your iPhone’s version of Safari. The next time you’re browsing the web from your iPhone and want to post, share or bookmark a link, just follow these simple steps:

* From Safari, click the bookmarks icon. It’s the one that looks like the pages of a book:

* Now click Bookmarks Bar; this should appear just below your browser’s History.

* Click the “smub it” bookmarklet and post, share or bookmark from the Smub interface! Ta-da! You’re done!

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What’s being smubbed?

Marie — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:18:19 +0000

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

Retweet From the MyBookmarks Page

Marie — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:10:31 +0000

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!

Some of today’s most popular tweeted smubs.

Marie — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:36:27 +0000

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