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In a number of important regards, this headline is surprisingly quite accurate. The typical concept of a Salesforce connector for Microsoft Outlook is something that integrates Chatter, events, and pertinent messages into the familiar Outlook front-end. This is not at all what LiveOffice has made, and from its vantage point, this isn't even what customers may want.

No, what LiveOffice (whose principal product is an e-mail archiving system) premiered at Salesforce this week is, from a technical standpoint, more like an e-mail reflector - the kind that folks used with BlackBerry back when folks used BlackBerrys - which makes e-mails and attachments from Outlook viewable and manageable within Salesforce.com.

To help combat what is quickly become a muddled mess of share buttons, Mozilla has rolled out a new service called F1. The browser extension adds a button to the Firefox toolbar, so that sharing Web pages to Twitter, Facebook or email is much simpler.

Currently the add-on only supports those three services. Mozilla says it picked those because of their popularity, their API support and their use of OAUth. Other services, such as Yahoo's email, required a CAPTCHA authentication prior to sharing, something that defeated the purpose of a single-click share button.

Xobni, the contacts- and email-management company, is using the Gmail API we reported on earlier today, to create a developer platform for killing two birds with one stone. Using Xobni, developers will be able to make contextual gadgets for Gmail and easily port them over to Outlook.

In a blog post, the company's CEO, Jeff Bonforte, announced a Xobni for Outlook Developer Preview "that will allow any developer to test their Gmail contextual gadget in Outlook 2003, 2007, and 2010 (32-bit and 64-bit)."

DeeperWeb's recently released add-on/plugin for IE and Firefox allows users to see traditional Google search results with enhanced results in a sidebar.

The suite of DeeperWeb enhancements to Google results include tag clouds, metrics, Q&As, and results from specific sources such as journalism sites, blogs, and Wikipedia. And unlike other next-gen search engines, DeeperWeb plays nice with Google, allowing users to maintain the familiarity of the Google interface and the reliability of Google results while experimenting with new paradigms.

Despite the number of add-ons available in the Firefox ecosystem, it can still sometimes feel like there are only a few truly good ones out there. That's why when we find one that's actually worth using, we get excited. The latest add-on getting installed into our small but critical collection of extensions is Pixelpipe's new drag-and-drop uploader. This utility lets you upload media directly from your computer or the web to any of the 75 plus services you've configured at Pixelpipe.com.

Thanks to its extensibility, Firefox quickly became the favorite browser for most power users. But while extensions are a great way to make Firefox more functional, Mozilla's designers are also currently thinking about a complete redesign of the way the browser looks and feels, in order to keep up with changing usage patterns. The most radical proposal we have seen so far would do away with the standard browser tabs, and replace them with an interface that looks more like iTunes than Firefox.

The Cooliris browser add-on was just updated to a new version that now offers something many users have been clamoring for: Linux support. With the 1.10 release of this 3D photo and video viewing plugin, Linux users running Firefox 3 can now also take advantage of this visually impressive software program for surfing through rich media on the web. In addition, the new version of Cooliris includes improvements to their Facebook support, the ability to browse local files on your computer, and the addition of metadata to the content you're viewing.

Reframe It, a social web annotation tool we first reviewed last Fall, just announced that it has added integration with Twitter and Facebook to its features today. Thanks to this, users can now syndicate their annotations to both Twitter and Facebook, where they can continue their discussions with friends who are not using Reframe It yet.

Reframe It also announced that it has added Lawrence Lessig, John Seely Brown, Terry Winograd, and Clay Shirky to its Advisory Board, which already includes an all-star line-up of Internet luminaries like Esther Dyson, Henry Louis Gates Jr, and Howard Rheingold.

Yahoo has just released a new application which brings their location-aware platform Fire Eagle to Facebook's social network. The new app called "Friends on Fire" lets you easily share your current location with a set of trusted friends. Fire Eagle users can also share short, Twitter-like posts with each other. These are quick updates and tips tied to your location and displayed on a map within Facebook. In addition, the Fire Eagle team has also introduced a Firefox extension that lets you update your location with just one click.

Around this time last year, we were excited about a new Firefox extension called MySocial24x7 which brought FriendFeed activity streams right into your browser sidebar. Built on the Google App Engine platform, the add-on was one of the first to make use of the FriendFeed API. Unfortunately, the add-on's creator Sandosh Vasudevan stopped work on the extension and soon it became out-of-date. But now, with permission from Sandosh, a new developer has taken over and the add-on has returned.