It's been in beta since the beginning of this year, but today it's official - we're releasing the Presently Chrome Extension as a full-fledged Presently client. We released the first version in January, and since then our developers have been adding functionality and making tweaks to give it bring functionality to the extension - so Presently users can enjoy a seamless integration of their corporate collaboration app within their Chrome browser. Now you can do almost everything you do on the native web app! In this version 0.1 you can:

If you're not already using the Presently Chrome Extension give it a try today! It gives you full access to your Presently network, letting you view and post updates and stay up-to-date throughout the day. The small notification icon that sits next to your address bar is unobtrusive yet distinctive enough to offer you a gentle reminder that you have unseen updates waiting for you.

I use the Chrome history tab when I forget about something I've looked up in the past. I initially thought that the data would be stored in a CSV or XML file and thought I could do some string munging for kicks and giggles. To my delight, when I looked in the "Application Support" directory for Chrome, I found several data-rich sqlite databases ready for mining. With a few Ruby tricks, I found some cool data. All the code this article covers is available on the chrome_spy project.

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