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The Gmail Twitter Gadget lets you tweet your heart out from directly inside Gmail, complete with saucy emoticons. Thanks Wyn!

Social media maven (and Lifehacker alumnus) Tamar Weinberg has written up "The Ultimate Social Media Etiquette Handbook" over at her Techipedia blog, and, based on the breadth of advice and coverage of networking apps, it's not an inaccurate title.

Keeping track of business expenses can be a huge pain in the buttocks, but webapp Xpenser is out to make it as easy as a phonecall, SMS, or instant message.

Web site Tarpipe streamlines your updates to various social web sites, creating simple or complex workflows to update several buckets in one fell swoop. Let's say you want to do something simple like upload a new picture to Flickr and then tweet about it on Twitter. Normally you'd need to upload the photo to Flickr, find the URL of the pic, run it through some sort of URL shrinker, and then update your Twitter account with the shrunken link to the Flickr page.

Web site Tarpipe streamlines your updates to various social web sites, creating simple or complex workflows to update several buckets in one fell swoop. Let's say you want to do something simple like upload a new picture to Flickr and then tweet about it on Twitter. Normally you'd need to upload the photo to Flickr, find the URL of the pic, run it through some sort of URL shrinker, and then update your Twitter account with the shrunken link to the Flickr page.

In its third reincarnation since its debute in 1996 and redesign in 1998, web site Kvetch now harnesses the time-wasting powers of Twitter to call a farshtinken tokhis leker a schmuck behind their back. Users have to follow the service's account on Twitter in order to send it direct messages, which are then reposted at kvetch.com without any personal information.

The latest entry in the URL-shortening service is Tr.im, and while there are a number of features that might make you switch from reader favorite TinyURL, the most compelling is that with so few characters in the service's domain name, it creates really tiny URLs.

Google's official blog rounds up yesterday's top searches, with interesting oddities (cassoulet forever?).

TinyURL fends off an onslaught of new competition to take home the prize in this weekend's Hive Five Best URL Shrinkers. Up-and-comer Is.gd pulled in second, followed by Bit.ly.