Online social networking has overridden normal social life of Internet users. It is now a routine work executed by Internet users whenever they launch their web browser. It is also being used for business promotion and interaction with customers. Many 3^rd party tools have emerged to make interaction with theses social services more flexible and convenient when compared to their default interface. We are going to provide a list of Google chrome extensions (3^rd Party Tools) which will make your social experience more pleasant.

Google Chrome Extensions for Facebook

Facebook for Google Chrome
This extension implements a new design to interact with Facebook in Google Chrome. Besides, it uses Facebook connect to get updates about wall, status updates, and messages. The notification mechanism also has a Sound design.

Beautify Facebook
If you are tired of default Facebook look, try this extension in Google Chrome to bring some change. This extension improves the appearance by adding a gradient background, rounded corners, shadows, emoticon for chat, and many more. It makes possible some navigation in Facebook using Keyboard shortcuts.

Facebook Photo Zoom
Pictures in Facebook albums are shown as thumbnails and to view the image user needs to open separately. This extension displays a large preview image whenever user hovers mouse over an image. The same happens with profile pictures and you don’t need to open friend’s profile for seeing the display picture. The feature can be easily toggled on or off with Ctrl+Shift+Z.

Facebook Fixer
This is actually a greasemonkey script which has been ported as Google Chrome extension. It provides lot of customizations for Facebook like bigger album and profile pictures, keyboard shortcuts, homepage customization and many more.

Friends Mural for Facebook
It is another novel to get updates from all friends and as well as for selected friends. Friends can be added to a wall in the extension’s pop up and all the updates about specific friends can be seen individually.

Facebook Simple Notes
This extension for Google Chrome turns the clumsy notification area of Facebook into a fancy one by organizing related notifications into groups. The notifications related to same topic like picture, status, post, and application are categorized.

Google Chrome Extensions for Twitter

Chromed Bird
It is a nice replacement of desktop client to utilize Twitter while browsing in Google Chrome. It has lot of features like tweeting, get notifications, monitor custom search queries, preview image links, follow time lines, creating short urls, and many more.

Chrowety
This can also work as alternative of desktop client for Twitter right in your web browser. You can save drafts for updates and replies, follow lists, change twitter API, have an eye on time lines, browse user profiles, and many more.

Other Google Chrome Extensions for Social Networking/News

Shareaholic for Google Chrome
An awesome extension to share content across the web with a simple click which supports all social services like Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, Stumble Upon, and Digg, Email services like Gmail, Google Apps mail, and Yahoo, IM services and many more. It is possible to select services of your choice and make them launch through keyboard shortcuts.

Orkut Chrome Extension
It provides a smart way to get scrap notification, find a friend’s page, and share content on Orkut. You will be no longer needed to refresh or stay permanently on Orkut’s page to remain updated.

Delicious Tools
A simple way to save bookmarks in Delicious account is provided by this extension. The user is also able to assign a keyboard shortcut for easy access.

StumbleUpon
If you are an avid user of Stumble Upon, this is the only extension available in Google Chrome. It is a bit messy due to some restrictions in Chrome API. Therefore, it is not a perfect alternative for counterpart supported in Firefox.

Digg for Chrome
You can utilize this extension to make your interaction with Digg more convenient. It can tell you whether a webpage has been submitted to Digg by showing Display Count. You can easily share and find new content.

AutoPager Chrome
You will no longer be required to make a click for viewing next page. The extension loads the next page automatically when you reach at the end of a page on many websites like Google, Twitter, You Tube, Flickr, and many more.

Add to Amazon Wish List
Adding item to Amazon wish list has been made much simpler by this extension. You can add the item with a single click. The process is very straight.

Social Graph Analyzer
If a user has created profiles on different services like Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, or on other with same user name, this extension will help you find other profiles while you are on page of one of the profiles

StayFocusd
It is an application to enhance your productivity which is usually lost while browsing web and making online social interactions on Facebook, Twitter, and etc. You can configure it in multiple ways to block specified pages when a time limit is reached. So that you will get on Work rather than wasting more time and lose your rankings.

These chrome extensions will improve your productivity as well as a charming dealing with popular service like Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Orkut, Stumble Upon, Delicious, and others.

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Online users are getting more social after the emergence of popular Web2.0 social applications. Among those applications, Facebook is the most famous and the growth is still on the rise. Many users browse their profiles at some specific time and perform their social activity. On the other side, social addicts may want to remain updated about what is happening in their vicinity and provide their inputs and update as well.  Such users need some specific utility to accomplish their needs.

In order to fulfill the above requirements, there are many utilities available in form of browser’s add-ons/plugins/extensions or userscripts.   We will review here Chrome extensions which will let a user deal and manage Facebook profiles in an efficient manner and boost their social experience.

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Facebook
Title says it all. If not convinced, try it. Facebook is packed in a single extension. By default, it shows you the mobile interface of Facebook but you can switch to full web interface if required. The user can access any feature from Facebook profile like feed, friends, notification, inbox, and chat. This is the only Chrome extension which supports Facebook chat. So, I consider it the best and complete Facebook extension for Chrome.

Facebook To-Go with Instant Notifications
This is pretty much similar to the earlier extension. It presents you the mobile interface of Facebook. The Chat feature is also available but it actually uses the pop out chat window feature of Facebook’s webpage and the user can not use it in the frame of extension. Whenever there is an update, the counter in extension’s icon gets incremented. There are some choices available at the bottom like Widen the Pop Up, Detach, and options. In options, you can remove these buttons if you don’t like them. Widening the pop-up fine-tunes the width and the text along with whole interface gets more neat and clean.

Facebook Notifications
If you only need to be aware of the updates and prefer to execute a response in actual Facebook’s profile page, this extension will do the task to notify you of any updates.

There are some problems as well. I am not confident whether they are in mobile Facebook or extensions or Chrome. I was not successful in adding/deleting friends and deleting messages inbox. It can be deduced despite Chrome’s extensions are young but those related to Facebook are pretty much satisfying.

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Twitter may have stopped its exponential growth but none can predict its future. Recently, Twitter has stressed its news and information network strategy by altering the question of status updates from “What are you doing?” to “What’s happening?”. In its boom, it has expanded its footprint in many diverse fields like news, education, emergencies and many others. Its micro blogging nature can also keep it alive.

Only 40% of Twitter users are retained but who sticks may get addicted to it. Many of these Twitter users may have switched to the Chrome for daily web use. If they had used some sort of plugins/addons in their previous web browser to manage twitter, here is the extension that can manage their twitter account from Chrome.

Chrowety
It is not just an extension but a pretty simple alternative of a desktop Twitter client. It is equipped with all enhanced features that I would like to see in a Chrome extension. The user can sign in through login api or can use oauth protocol for more security. Once you are logged in, you can view home, mentions, direct messages, favorites and lists. You can interact with these features as smoothly as you do on twitter account web page or on a client. It displays notifications when new tweets arrive. Drafts of status update or a reply are automatically saved. The user can easily view photos from Twitpic/Tweetphoto or YouTube videos in the Chrowety frame. It also supports translation of tweets and the language can be selected from configuration.

If a click is performed on a user’s picture, the avatar is zoomed and user’s profile can be viewed as well. There is support for six popular U.R.L. shortening services. Chrowety is also multilingual and interface language can be changed to German, Spanish, Dutch, and Portugese.

Chrowety can be configured in many ways. In main tab, you can change the refresh time and number of tweets to show on Home, Mentions, and Messages. URL Shortener can be modified along with some alert settings.

In Interface tab, the height of Chrowety Frame/Popup can be adjusted. The user can also adjust the font size of tweet and enable/disable text shadow. Choice for Interface and Translation language is also made here. You can also tweak the “What’s up” question.
Chrowety is the best extension to Tweet from Chrome. If the improvements in queue are made, it may fully replace a Twitter Desktop Client. The extension has been tested in Windows. If you have utilized it in Linux or Mac, do update us.

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Young generation is getting more addicted to video games than physical games. This trend has its own advantages and disadvantages. The trend may even overcome the rate at which people play physical games. The visual interactivity has developed rapidly and the player feels like real in virtual reality. Besides the development of online games is also a major factor in popularity of video games. This trend has not stopped yet and the integration of online games in social networks has boosted the phenomenon. When we talk about social networks, Facebook is the most popular social network to date and Farmville is the most popular game on Facebook with a huge user base.

Online social games like Farmville create more competition and compel players to move up in levels more quickly than their friends. To increase the levels, experience, or coins in Farmville, the user needs to spend more time on plowing, planting, and harvesting. Sometimes it may consume your precious time or even get you bored.  Why not use some kind of auto clicker which can save your time and increase your ranks in the game.Also Take a Look at:

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Farmvillebot is such a nice and free utility which can also be called auto player for Farmville. The Bot can almost perform anything that you have to do with mouse clicks. It will plow, plant crops, harvest crop, animals, and trees automatically. I have been in search of a tool or script like auto player for MafiaWars and this tool is much similar. We will go through each step to setup this Farmvillebot.

After installing the tool in your desired location, launch the bot and enter your login details to launch Farmville. Wait until your farm is loaded and remember you can not perform any manual activity on the farm in Farmvillebot. After the farm is loaded, move to settings tab and here you can choose the crops to be planted automatically. The crops can be added by clicking “+”. Add the required crops and check the plant checkbox. The crops can be latter removed using “-” button.

There are also four checkboxes and activating them will automatically

§ Harvest Lands (Crops)

§ Help Neighbors

§ Harvest Tress

§ Collect Products from Livestock (Animals)

The Advanced Settings tab lets you modify some parameters regarding Farmvillebot. This tab also shows the current status and next task to be executed. There are parameters like Interval (Between starting the bot) and the program restart time. It is suggested not to modify default values. At the end, you can check to refresh farm and enable pop up messages which show the activity performed by the Farmvillebot.

Farmvillebot’ extensibility using Plugins is an attraction for developers. There have been some efforts which resulted in very useful plugins which we will discuss here. To install the plugins, download and then extract them to plugins folder which is by default “C:\FarmVilleBot\plugins”.

Before installing and using these plugins, it is highly recommended to go through the discussion and experiences of the Farmvillebot’s community. It will save your time and also will not get you in trouble.

Superplow
This plugin is now included in Farmvillebot package by default. You don’t need to download and install it separately. The plugin allows creating a number of plots on a given single position thus infinitely increasing the size of the farm.

Sell Item
If you want to sell some items like cherry tree or toygreensoldier, this plugin can be really useful. The operating procedure is a little bit tricky but you will learn it quickly.

Exchange
You have a lot of coins and I mean a lot of coins but you are lagging in experience. Using this plugin, you will sacrifice coins to earn more experience.

OnceAday Neighbors Helper
There was an option in settings tab to help neighbors automatically; if this is enabled and you have a large number of neighbors the bot might get stuck. This plugin will save you from such a situation.

OutOfSyncDeleter
This plugin might be the most tricky to get worked out according to the discussion. Be extra careful. If your farm gets out of sync, then you need to delete item manually. With this plugin, you will save your time and delete all items at once.

Farmvillebot is the most powerful tool to cheat and hack Farmville. Its extensibility through plugins makes it more strong and useful. It is a all in one tool to auto plow, plant, and harvest items in Farmville. To best of my knowledge, it is the best and free auto player or bot for Farmville out there.

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The participation of online users in online community games is increasing with the growing use of online social communities like Facebook and MySpace. Some of these games are more popular and Mafia Wars (Developed by Zynga) is one of them. Mafia Wars is available on Facebook, MySpace, Tagged, and Yahoo!. Recently, it has also been released as an iPhone application. According to statistics, Mafia Wars has more than 26.9 million monthly active accounts on Facebook alone, as of November 2009. It has also received Webby award for People’s Voice Winner.

In Mafia Wars, Players create mafias by recruiting players and use reward points to hire extra mafia members. The main theme of the game is to perform and master jobs in order to earn cash and experience. Finally, the player establishes and advances in one’s criminal empire. There have been some concrete efforts to cheat

and trick the Mafia Wars game. These efforts have resulted in some GreaseMonkey scripts to simplify and enhance player’s experience with the game. It is recommended that you use Firefox with Grease Monkey add on to get the most benefit. There are some alternatives available to use these scripts with Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Opera.

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Mafia Wars Auto Player

What if you don’t want have much spare time to spend on Mafia Wars? What if you have just initiated the game and you are eager to move forward rapidly and leave your friends behind? What if you are tired of doing jobs yourself but you are still interested in gaining the cash and experience? Mafia Wars Auto Player takes the driving seat and performs following tasks automatically.

• auto refresh page with random time
• auto mission mastery + (will get required loot/inventory)
• auto fight / Rob
• auto stats
• auto health replenish
• auto banking feature
• job energy returns calculated
• auto energy-pack usage
• auto property purchase
• auto property protect
• auto property heal
• superior log info collection
• statistic collection
• ride hit list feature

Caution: The script should not be used frequently. It can be used for 1-2 hour in a day otherwise it will red flag your Mafia Wars profile and it may be disabled.

Mafia Wars Experience Remaining

This Mafia Wars script does pretty nice job of different calculations. The primary calculation will inform you about the experience required to reach next level as well as necessary ratio to be maintain based on current energy level. It also calculates the ratio required to achieve next level if the player uses all of its current energy along with a full energy pack. Further, it displays

· Ratio of experience/energy for each Job.

· Ratio of money/energy for each Job.

· Total amount of money needed to get all items required for a Job.

· Ratio of experience/energy needed to reach next level.

There are also other enhancements which you can understand better by examining the screenshot

Mafia Wars Auto Help

Mafia Wars have a courteous feature which enables a player to help another friend if he is stuck in some situation. Basically, the player in need requests his co players to assist him in completing a mission or attacking another mafia. The post appears on the wall (feed) of friends and the one who accepts first, gets bonus and experience in return. This script continuously examines your wall and automatically takes a step to help out your friends as soon as a request arrives. In this way, you are always ahead to get bonus and experience.

Mafia Wars Gift Sender

This handy script allows you to send multiple Loot-, Vault- or Boost-items directly from the Mafia Wars interface to any user. It is ideal to use in situation when you only want to send gift items to a particular player amongst a huge list of friends. In traditional menu, it will create a lot of burden. You can use the Facebook ID, Facebook profile (with ID number) or Mafia Wars profile link for the recipient.

After installing the script, you should show it using Mafia Wars menu or userscript’s command from the Grease Monkey menu.

Move on to Gifting page. Now get the Gift key by using Mafia Wars menu or the command in Grease Monkey menu.

The id of the recipient can be obtained by visiting the profile page. Finally, select quantity and type of loot to send the gift.

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The social addicts or even normal internet users utilize the chat facility through different platforms. The primary purpose of chat is to remain in contact. The chat be text, voice or video. Further, it may be  one to one direct chat or group chat. There are many desktop clients for chat which support either one protocol or multi protocols. Instead of downloading, installing and managing a client for each platform, you can use one client supporting all required protocols. Still, there is a possibility that you are roaming around and your personal computer is not available. You can utilize one of the Web based Instant Messengers which are multi protocol. There may be also a case that using desktop client is prohibited in your school,college, or office and Network Administrator has blocked the services. These web messengers will no let you remain cut you off  from your chat community.

Another advantage provided by some of these services is that

they provide you a specific identification. Employing this identification, you can manage and log in all the chat platforms which you use often.

eBuddy 

eBuddy is one of the poplar web messengers which support all major chat services like MSN, Yahoo,AIM, Google,Facebook,MySpace, and ICQ.The web interface is sleek and simple. You can sign in multiple accounts. A new window will appear for every signed in account. Besides, you contacts will also be shown in the first chat window. The service also provides a free ID which connect  all your IM accounts to eBuddy. After signing in with  eBuddy ID, all IM accounts associated with this ID will login automatically.

imo.im

This online web messenger is bit fresh but supports all major Instant Messaging platforms. imo.im also provides choice to use Skype without a client. If you have listened about Real Time interaction provided by Google Wave and haven’t yet tested it. You can experience a this Real Time interaction provided by imo.im which is called White Board. White Board lets your create drawings, diagrams, and text documents with your friends in real-time. imo.im also provides a 2 GB free space to upload you photos. Contrary to eBuddy, all your signed in accounts will appear in one window. It doesn’t also offer any specific ID like eBuddy and meebo .

meebo

meebo is another elegant online instant web messenger providing support for popular chat platforms. It has also the ID feature which collects and connects all instant messaging accounts in one place. In case of facebook, it has an exception comparing to the previous mention service.It doesn’t directly connect you to facebook chat rather you are confirmed by facebook first to allow meebo access to the account.

In short, these three online instant web messenger services provides an easy access to all major chat services like MSN,Yahoo,AIM,Google,Facebook,MySpace,and ICQ. The user can easily access the chat accounts from anywhere at one place and don’t have to worry about managing different desktop clients for chat

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The exponential and rapid growth of Facebook has also participated in the growing use of online community  games. The most popular games have been developed by Zynga like Farmville and Mafia Wars although total developed games are thirty. According to statistics, Zynga Games’ users have risen to 180 millions. Further,the most favorite game is Farmville with almost 56 million users. In Farmville, you grow your own crops and manage a farm. The number of built farms is almost 20 times larger than actually exist in US. If this number of farms would have actually existed, it is likely that the food crisis would have gone.

There are usually many cheats and tricks available for a PC game but this trend goes down with respect to online games. The following tricks lets you manage and play Farmville with more

flexibility. It is recommended that you use Firefox with Grease Monkey add on to get the most benefit. There are some alternatives available to use these scripts with Internet Explore, Google Chrome, and Opera.

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FarmVille- View Simplifier

You may not want to switch into full screen mode for better viewing. Still, you can remove the clutter created by advertisements in Facebook and simplify your view. You can turn on/off this view simplifier from the button in the right corner

FarmVille- Time of Harvest

If you are good at math, you might do it with you brain but to easily estimate the time of harvest for the crop, this script is really helpful. You just have to select, the percentage of crop grown and select it from drop drown menu. It will show you the exact time when you will be able to harvest. You should also know the maximum time of growth and check it respectfully.

Facebook Mass Accept Request

You usually get many Farmville gifts but acceptance is a time consuming and boring process. You have to accept one gift at fist then move back to gifts page again and accept another. This script puts a check box behind each gift and you can check them at once and then accept them in batch. This can work on other Facebook accept invitation as well.

Farmville Add Friend Helper

If you have many friends to add as neighbors , you may be in a difficult situation to click on each friend, move to Farmville and then again return to add as friend. The above mentioned script eases the way dramatically. You just have to go to the Farmville friends page and it will automatically add all Farmville friends as neighbors.
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FarmVille Wall Manager

Your Farmville friends share different kind of item like bonuses,  bouquets,  animals,  eggs and many more. They appear on the wall of your friend and also in your feed. So, all the friends have got a chance to cash them but they are on “First Come First Serve” basis. This handy script keeps an eye on your feed by refreshing it after some interval and it grabs all of the items as soon as they appear. In this way, you are always head to accept bonuses, grab bouquets, adopt animals, and hatch eggs.

You can also adjust some settings according to your requirement. These settings can be obtained by accessing related user script commands in Grease Monkey menu. These settings let you select which items to be grabbed or not.

Note:

* Bookmark this page. I will update it as soon as new tricks arrive.

**This post is dedicated to my Family because they are also an indication of Farmville’s popularity.

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No doubt! Facebook is the most active and popular social network on the surface of Internet. Its rich features and elegant interface make it so much popular. Although Facebook was being challenged by Twitter but recent reports indicates that the difference between new users has widened and Facebook dominates the quest. Have you ever imagined some sort of integration between this social giant and some Online Maps Service? This integration could have resulted in some useful application.

Facebook Earth is such an interesting application which combines the services of two applications. It is a useful utility which will update you about

the locations of your friend. You will get to know where the majority of your Facebook friends exists. Even you can estimate that how much you are social in a local area, your home country, or internationally.

Facebook Earth uses WPF, Virtual Earth, Facebook Developer Toolkit and Yahoo Map Service. Just install the application and launch it. The application will launch in full screen mode and a Facebook login window will appear. Just enter your credentials and it will get you login into Facebook Earth. In the following window, you have to get your list of friends which will appear in the right side bar of the window with large profile images of your friends. If you click on get map, it will present you with the locations of your friend on earth map.

*Caution! it will take some time depending on the number of your friends

This utility can be really helpful when you are moving around and easily find out if there is a friend in the area where you are roaming. After finding the desired friend, just right click and fix a meeting point. Then move the cursor above your friend’s image and notify them about the meeting point by sending a message.

In short, Facebook Earth will never let you forget to meet your friend whenever you are in his territory.

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Now a days Twitter is one of the popular micro blogging platform but you shouldn’t undermine Tumblr. Tumblr is a micro blogging platform that allows user to post text, images, video, links, quotes, and audio to their “Tumblelog”. Tumblr is more concerned about customizability and ease of use with a  simple sign-up process. Recently, there are reports that the number of new Twitter users is becoming steady or even declining slightly. When you compare these two micro blogging service, Twitter and Tumblr, with respect to loyal users, Tumblr has a clear advantage. According to Reuters, Twitter has a

40% retention rate while Fast Company states that Tumblr has 85% retention rate. It can be deduced that Tumblr has almost double loyal users than Twitter. If you haven’t used Tumblr, give it a try.

WinTumblr is an elementary application which brings your Tumblelog at Desktop. Instead of Browsing your Tumblelog in a web browser, you can easily post right from your desktop. It has a pretty simple interface. In a small window, you have choices to post text, images, video, links, quotes, and audio.

Before using WinTumblr, you have to add your account which can be accomplished by clicking the blue flower and then choosing manage accounts. Enter your login details, add the account and then validate.

WinTumblr settings lets you choose whether you want to close post windows after successful posting or not. You can also select to auto insert line break {<br> tag}. The user can also configure network in settings window.

You can also choose to minimize WinTumblr in system task bar and automatic launch at Windows startup.That’s it, you can start posting to your Tumblelog from your desktop.

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