Today we deployed another request driven feature. We've had a lot of people asking to see more information on how many social points they and others have acquired. So we threw together a simple page to give a full view of all of your social points.

Its a great page for checking your status and researching the interests of a person you're considering to follow. The default view shows the top level categories and your cumulative score for that group. To see the individual scores for the subcategories just click on any of the rows to expand.

We've also added a list of your Popular Shares if you have any. These are links that you were the first to share and are currently on the popular page.

This page will likely evolve to show more statistics and information as its requested. Make sure to let us know what else you'd like to see!

You may have noticed yesterday a recent redesign of the Socialbrowse site, and a new homepage that promotes the most popular links for the day. These updates are actually a small preview of some big new changes we are working on. While we can't yet reveal all the details, we've been getting some tremendous early feedback and we think you're really going to like what we have in store. So keep the feedback coming and enjoy the new design!

We are changing the location of the Socialbrowse Meetup this Thursday to the Dunn Bros Coffee on University by St Anthony Main. This will allow us to better accommodate for parking and space. Please see here for directions and a map.

So bring out a friend or two, and meet me and Dave this Thursday at 6pm. We hope to seeya there!

A lot of you have already made friends (and maybe even adversaries) with other Socialbrowse users based on the shared links and lively discussions. Many people tell us that most addicting thing about Socialbrowse is interacting with the people they meet on it!

Now with the help of a dedicated Minnesotan Socialbrowser we're organizing our first ever Socialbrowse meetup on November 6th. This will give you a chance to meet some fellow Socialbrowsers in person, give us direct feedback, introduce some newbies to Socialbrowse and just kick back with cool people.

Why are we having it in Minneapolis? Well, Dave and I will both be in town and we've got a high density of Socialbrowse users in the area. If we get a lot of interest, we'll follow it up with a Silicon Valley meetup down the line.

We're currently meeting at Open Book's Coffee Gallery, however if anyone knows of other area coffee shops that can accommodate a large group, please let us know!

Let us know if you're thinking of coming. And we encourage everyone to bring some friends who might want to try out Socialbrowse.

One more thing: Dave and I will be giving a sneak preview of our biggest new feature ever to those who attend - we're looking forward to seeing you there!

We've just released a new, sleeker look to the sidebar. The new version opens up more space for your social feed and has a more pleasant color scheme. To pull in and start using the new layout, just close and reopen your sidebar.

We've temporarily removed the "invite friends' portion of the sidebar to optimize the real estate, but in the future we'll be adding that option but in a less intrusive and more feature-rich manner.

While this has been a minor update, we've got some more big stuff on the way so check back here tomorrow for more news (no, we're not getting acquired or shutting down Socialbrowse!).

This marks the 3rd blog post in 2 days, which is a record for us and means we've got lots of good stuff for you! Today we're releasing version 0.6.1 of Socialbrowse. While this version doesn't offer any dramatic new features, you'll find many usability improvements that will make Socialbrowse even easier to use. Note: If you don't want to wait for Firefox, you can grab the new version directly here.

* You can now conveniently toggle the settings for embedded icons and message popups from the browser's status bar. Just click the left icon to turn off the embedded icons, and the right button to turn off message popups (for when the sidebar is closed). These options are now removed from the Tools menu.

* Recently we provided a setting to let you open feed items in a new tab. While many of you appreciated this feature, we heard from you that you'd like the ability to choose which links are opened in new tabs. We listened: you can now open a single feed item in a new tab by holding Shift before clicking.

* If you are a mouse hater, we now provide mouse-less sharing. Use the keyboard shortcut Alt+s to open the share drop down, and use the arrows and enter key to select your category.

* The hover widget for an embedded icon is now cleaner, with a defined width, and intelligence to open on the correct side of the icon in order to stay within the page margins.

We hope you enjoy the latest enhancements!

In order to best market Socialbrowse to new users, we need to know where people are most likely to hear about us. Thus it'd be helpful to know where you, our existing users, managed to hear about us, and what made you decide to install Socialbrowse.

Did you hear about us on TechCrunch or another blog? Did you receive a friend invite from another Socialbrowse user? Did you find us through an unrelated Google search? And what made you think "I'll give this crazy sounding tool a try!" Please add a comment to this post (preferably using the SB commenting system) letting us know where you found us and why you gave Socialbrowse a try.

Thanks!

Socialbrowse aspires to be the the easiest and best way to share the web. Unfortunately not all of your friends are on Socialbrowse (yet!), but we don't think that should limit us from making your browsing social. Firstly we encourage you to invite your friends! Another way is to have Socialbrowse share links through email like never before.

We already allow you to send links to your friends through the toolbar's share button, but today we are launching a fancy new emailer for the Socialbrowse website. Click the mail icon underneath any link on a profile page, or your socialfeed and our new email widget will come up. The widget automatically generates an email for you, with the titled link, a feed summary of the page if available, and a link to the discussion happening on socialbrowse about the share. All you have to do choose who to send it to and an optional message.

Of course, no one likes having to remember email addresses, so we've made it so you don't have to. If you're a Gmail user you can sync your contacts, and our widget will then auto-complete your emails liked you're accustomed to within GMail. Other contacts services will be added over time.

Here is an example of what the people you're email sharing with will see. It looks great and is incredibly fast and easy! The new html formated emails are also used when emailing through the extension.

Today we released a new version of Socialbrowse that fixes minor bugs and introduces a convenient new feature: opening your feed links in a new tab! While one loyal Socialbrowse user beat us to the punch with a blog post about it, I'll expand on it a bit more here as well.

In the latest update, you can choose to open links from the sidebar feed into a new tab rather than replacing the contents of the existing tab. Since Firefox doesn't treat the sidebar content as typical links, we were forced to add it as a separate option. To toggle this option, in Firefox go to Tools->Add-ons and click "Preferences" or "Options" for Socialbrowse.

Firefox will automatically let you know when you can install the latest version. If you initially installed Socialbrowse from our homepage, the upgrade should already be available for you. If you installed via the Firefox add-ons page, you'll have to wait a couple days until the Firefox staff approves the latest change into their add-ons directory.

After 3 months in private beta, Socialbrowse has finally launched publicly! And we couldn't have gotten to where we are now without all the help from our test users - we received hundreds (maybe thousands) of pieces of feedback, and many of our improvements were in direct response to what you, our users, have asked for. For those who were with us from the start, thanks for sticking with us through all the changes!

We're all about to get A LOT more friends on Socialbrowse. This is our opportunity to continue to make the product better - the more good users on Socialbrowse, the more fun it is for all of us. So if you enjoy Socialbrowse and want to help us make it better, here are a 5 ways you can chip in:

1) Welcome the new users! If you see you've got a new fan, check out their profile and see if you'd like to follow them. Drop them a message and help them feel included.

2) Be active. Let's show all the new users how much fun Socialbrowse is. Spur some action by sharing good links and participating in discussions. Let's generate some buzz!

3) Help promote us. If you like SB, help us out by voting our home page up on Stumbleupon so more people can find us. If you've got your own blog, write a post about your SB experience and share it.

4) Tell your friends. The more the merrier!

5) Keep sending us feedback. Your feedback has gotten us this far, and we want to keep hearing from you! Just be patient with us waiting for responses because we're going to have our hands full for a few days. :-)

Thanks again for being part of the Socialbrowse community, and welcome to all new users!