SharePoint 2013 - How to add a new link next to Sites, NewsFeed, SkyDrive

If you are looking to add a new link just next to Sites, NewsFeed, SkyDrive etc on the top bar of your SharePoint site..  you can now do that with a new delegate control "SuiteLinksDelegate".

If you modify your master page in designer you can find it at

<SharePoint:DelegateControl id="ID_SuiteLinksDelegate" ControlId="SuiteLinksDelegate" runat="server" />


So if in case you need to hide it or override it you have your refrence of the control that displays Sites, SkyDrive, NewsFeed etc.