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Social Browsing: Share Your Favorite Finds

Social browsing extensions harness the power of collective clicking to help you find and share the best of the Web. You can save, tag, and share a link to a hilarious new video--or an insightful market analysis--with a select group or with the world at large.

StumbleUpon This supreme time-waster and Firefox favorite is now available for Internet Explorer as well. Click a button and commence stumbling onto a huge variety of sites that have earned a thumbs-up from other Stumblers in one or more categories of your choice, or enter a particular search term in the toolbar's search box and see what comes up. Influence others' meanderings with your own site ratings and tags to help categorize sites.

Del.icio.us Save Web pages to Del.icio.us and label them with tags simply by clicking a couple of navigation-bar buttons. Afterward, access those bookmarks from anywhere, share them with friends, and browse the Del.icio.us site to see what other people think is interesting.

Del.icio.us Bookmarks Del.icio.us bookmarks are typically stored separately from your regular bookmarks; this add-on integrates them so that every new bookmark acts like a Del.icio.us bookmark. You can also view bookmarks by tags.

Trailfire Toolbar This innovative new approach to site sharing has you create a "trail"--an overlay of small markers--anywhere on a succession of sites. You can add your own critiques or call out parts of a page with comments that show up when visitors mouse over a marker. All the markers in a given trail are displayed in a sidebar, where you can click through each step or skip ahead.

Trails may be private or public, and you can share them by posting or e-mailing a link. You can also toggle whether you want to view other people's markers as you browse. The company is working on adding functionality that will show trails and markers only for selected friends.

eSnips Uploader Clip text, images, videos, or entire pages from sites with a toolbar from eSnips, and upload them to 1GB of free storage. Tag your uploaded clippings, recorded voice, or video to share it with friends or with the world.

Clipmarks Click this toolbar button, click and drag to "clip" a section of a Web page, and then save and share your clips, with tags that you define, on Clipmarks' site. You can also use the applet to print a selected portion of a page.