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"We're having a blast tonight playing with Cortex, an insanely fast, beautifully built extension for Google Chrome. It's lightweight as all get-out, and it lets you share content all over the web literally faster than you can say, \"Hey, look at this.\"\nHere's the gist of it: Install the extension, find content you want to share, then click and hold. When you do, your mouse will be surrounded by a wheel of options. Flick your mouse in the correct direction, release your finger and voil\u00E0, your content is shared to Twitter, to Tumblr, to a specific Facebook friend's wall \u2014 wherever you desire \u2014 accompanied by a charming \"whoosh\" sound.\nThe entire process takes about two seconds, and it's as good-looking as it is fast.\nThe Cortex interface is incredibly unique. We're generally big fans of apps that get out of your way when you don't need them; we love it when features are unobtrusive and recede gracefully. \nIn that sense alone, Cortex is the perfect antidote to the array of hideous sharing mechanisms that populate the web today \u2014 those obnoxious bars, frames and buttons that clutter up the visual space and make your eyes long for rest. From a design perspective, Cortex is a breath of entirely fresh air.\nIn terms of user experience, the extension also makes sharing incredibly easy for users. It chooses header text and shortens URLs; it even lets users share just an image or specific selected text. Cortex also lets you track your history of shares. The only thing we wish worked a tad better is image sharing; right now, Cortex sends a link to Twitter and Facebook when we try to share images.\nRight now, you can share to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Instapaper. More options will be coming soon.\nHere's a brief demo video that shows how Cortex works:\n\n\n\n\nCortex was just launched along with the all-new Chrome Web Store. It comes from the brain of Google intern-turned-entrepreneur Joey Primiani, who said in an e-mail, \"Learning from building successful products at Google, I love focusing on things people use on a daily basis. It's a technology that I think is really focused, very simple and useful.\"\nExpect to see tablet and mobile features for Cortex soon. In the meantime, give it a shot and let us know in the comments what you think.\nDemo video courtesy of Good Morning Geek."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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