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Linker Chrome extension for smart link sharing

Linker is a free Chrome extension that you can use to make sending & sharing links ridiculously easy. The thing about sending links is that you need to select a communication medium, such as an IM, text message, social media or email client & then select the recipient & add a few niceties before you can actually send the link.

What Linker does is eliminate all this bother over a simple link. When you install the Chrome extension for the first time, you have to enter the contact info (emails) of people you frequently share links with.

linkerpageWhen you’re browsing, a little widget shows next to the URL bar in your browser. If you want to share the link, you just click the widget & then the contact to whom you want to send the link.

That’s all there is to it, & the person at the other end who also has the extension installed will see the link & may open it in their browser.

Even if the recipient is not online, Linker waits until such time as the link is opened before letting you know that link has been opened at the other end. That’s a cue for you to take the conversation further via other communication channels & demand a response from the recipient as to what they think about your possibly award-winning cute kitten blog post.

Recipients can also choose to have the links sent to their email, so that they may open them anywhere & on any device, & not just on a computer which has the Chrome extension.

One more excellent feature is that it remembers links that have been sent, in case you want to resend the same link again to someone else.

The team behind Linker is working not just on coming up with versions of the app for Firefox & IE, but also for Android & iOS devices.

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Get to know when someone has read the email you have sent

What is the biggest challenge (or let’s just say, anxiety) you face when you send across an email? Whether the person you have sent it to has opened it or not? To begin with, you are almost, always worried whether the recepient has even seen the email, or whether it has gone into his email’s spam folder.

Wouldn’t it be just great if there was some way you could know when the person has clicked on your email to read it? Or on the link that you may have sent in your email? Now, there’s a tool called Signals by well-known Inbound Marketing firm HubSpot that  claims to give you real-time notifications every time someone opens the emails you’ve sent.

As of now, Signals works with Gmail, Outlook.com & Microsoft Outlook, & only in the Chrome browser. The designers say they are working to include other email clients, too. The aim, say the guys at HubSpot, is to help users follow up with leads & customers more efficiently & more effectively, making it a great tool for Internet marketers. So now, you may send an email using your email tool, & Signals will send you an instant notification when your message is opened or clicked.

While the basic version is free, there’s a paid version, too, with additional features.

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