Lu.ly – Twitter and Facebook in your browser
I ran across Lu.ly quite by accident from a posting on what seemed to be a French blog that was linked. What I found was a browser extension that places an action bar to view the stream and even tweet. You can also shorten URL’s using the Lu.ly domain name and get Facebook updates. Basically a more limited client but acts like a ticker instead of having to look elsewhere.

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