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Korean company Egoing has introduced MonkeyFly, a browser plugin that allows a user to customize their Twitter. For users who feel the abiding need for monkeying around (rimshot) with everything they use, this could come in handy.

Among the features the plugin powers are a grid-style interface, lightbox profile, link tracking and easy photo upload.

A new version of Google Chrome for Mac is now available for download and this time it has a feature many Mac users have been anticipating - extensions.

Chrome for Mac was introduced in December and, to many people's dismay, did not support extensions. This latest version not only brings extensions to the Mac, but browser syncing for keeping your bookmarks organized and with you, wherever you may go.

Now that Google Chrome has entered the world of fully-extensible browsers, with its recent addition of extensions and Greasemonkey scripts, you've likely found yourself perusing the libraries and tweaking until your heart's content. With that, however, comes the inevitable - browser crashes.

Last September, Google launched Sidewiki, a Web annotation service that makes it easy to annotate any page on the Internet. Sidewiki, however, hasn't attracted a lot of users yet and the public discussion about online content continues to happen in comments and on Twitter.

Here at ReadWriteWeb, we're big fans of the Chrome web browser. Most of the bloggers here have made the switch, abandoning Firefox and Safari for the new, speedy WebKit-based browser from Google. And with the addition of extensions, we've found even more reasons to love it - over 1500 of them, actually. We each have our favorites of course, but recently, we came across one we just had to share with our readers: The ReadWriteWeb News Notifier!

Our friend Warren Benedetto of Transfusion Media has just released a spiffy Chrome extension that helps Internet users stay focused on the task at hand during the work day.

Akin to LeechBlock for Firefox, Benedetto's StayFocusd attempts to correct fundamental productivity issues associated with the social Web by allowing users to only spend an allotted amount of time on a "gray list" of websites. For example, if you give yourself 20 minutes a day to screw around on Twitter and Facebook, StayFocusd will block your access to those sites once it's determined that your 20 minutes have been used.

Google just announced that it has started to include some results from its universal search feature right into the list of suggested search terms beneath the search box. When you search for "weather in San Francisco", for example, the current weather will appear right at the bottom of the suggested search terms without having to hit the enter key. This new feature currently works for 10 universal search features, including weather, flight status, local time, area codes, package tracking, answers, definitions, calculator, currency and unit conversions.

The Google Chrome team released a beta version of its Mac browser this morning and opened up an official gallery of browser extensions. That's exciting news because the addition of more than 300 extensions, combined with blazing speed and good stability, makes Chrome the best browser on the market today.

We got a chance to talk with Nick Baum, Product Manager and Brian Rakowski, Director of Product Management at Google Chrome this afternoon and they shared a number of interesting tidbits with us about the nature and future of extensions in Chrome.