You know them…the little green buttons found near the bottom of many thousands of blog posts across the Internet.
Well, Share This has gone social. Create a ShareThis account and now you can tune into what is being shared in real-time across the net.
Check out the ShareThis Stream page to see what they are talking about.
…did you notice that they mentioned a widget in the video?
The widget is still in “invite only” beta. You’ll have to sign up at http://sharethis.com/publishers/stream
AddThis.com is a service that makes it very easy for bloggers and website owners to add all-in-one social functionality to their pages. AddThis provides a great widget that allows your readers to easily share your content across their favorite social sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Orkut and many, many more. 223 services to be exact!
AddThis was founded in 2006 and is currently viewed more than 30 Billion times a month. Clearspring Technologies acquired AddThis in 2008 and continues to improve the service.
AddThis labs introduces Sharebar
Sharebar is an unobtrusive bar that appears at the bottom of the browser and allows your visitors to share your website content with all of their social contacts throughout the world. The Sharebar makes it so your readers don’t have to look for your creative sharing options. All the sharing options are located in one easy, convenient location. This frees up precious space on your website for more content or widgets or whatever.
Sharebar is still a beta as it was only released on December 17th 2009.
Sharebar is an AddThis Labs experiment, so please note that we cannot provide the same level of support for this feature as we do for the AddThis menu and other interfaces.
I have started seeing the AddThis Sharebar on a few sites. There is a forum where AddThis encourages you to share your experiences with Sharebar. http://www.addthis.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=11
With the sheer number of posts on the forum since Dec 17th (13 days ago) I can see that Sharebar will be quite successful.
Get Sharebar at http://addthis.com/labs/sharebar
Sharebar is also available as Google Chrome extension.
We’ve released an AddThis Google Chrome Extension which uses Sharebar. As you will see it does not look like Sharebar (it’s not even a bar), but it uses the same code with a different layout option. Google Chrome only supports extensions in the Windows beta, Mac support should be coming any day.
…and as a browser bookmarklet.
If you want to try Sharebar on your site without adding any code use the Sharebar Bookmarklet: Sharebar.
Drag that to your bookmark bar and you can use Sharebar on any site.
LiveIntent (beta–Invite only) offers a widget that allows you to add Twitter users with a suggestion to follow them. Lets say you have 5 editors on your blog. You can add them to the LiveIntent widget as suggestions to follow on Twitter. You could add anyone that you think is worthwhile to follow.
The widget:
At this point, the widget appears as a small “Share This” chic-let style embed that, when you mouseover it, a box appears that displays your suggested Twitter users. The LiveIntent widget is currently using JavaScript.
LiveIntent is focused on “Making social media connections that matter”.
The actual scope of LiveIntent is rather fuzzy. There is a LiveIntent blog post that indicates the direction of the company.
One of the things that we discuss a lot here at LiveIntent is, appropriately, intent. Consumer intent. Advertiser intent. Publisher intent. Even our intent! The real-time web is all about intentions and our goal is to digest and learn from these intentions. Our theory is that the more alignment of intent that we can create, the higher the utility that we provide.
…Technological innovation has long been fueled by advertising dollars and if social media is going to continue it’s explosive growth, it too will require a sustainable advertising model. At LiveIntent, we hope that we can create this model by providing meaningful, targeted, intent-aligned connections on social media.
Yesterday, ReadWriteWeb broke news that MyBlogLog is slated for the Yahoo! chopping block in January 2010. Aggravating to say the least!
MyBlogLog and WidgetsLab.
I believe WidgetsLab is one of the only widget based blogs to still be displaying the MyBlogLog visitors widget. The visitor widget has spent time in the footer (highly customized) and in the sidebar where it currently resides. It has been on WidgetsLab since late 2006 and has outlasted many, many other widgets.
Marshall Kirkpatrick says:
Five years to the month after it was founded, cross-blog social networking widget MyBlogLog will be closed down by Yahoo! in January, we’re hearing from sources close to the project. MyBlogLog is a service that shows blog writers and readers the faces and profile information of other MyBlogLog users that visit their sites….
…Yahoo! has let the service atrophy for years and will now put it to rest. To think that this service offered publishers and developers access to personal, demographic, taste and activity data of a website’s readers – and yet that offering has in the end gone no where – that’s downright crazy.
View entire story at ReadWriteWeb.com
Wait…there’s more!
This comes from the Yahoo! Developer Network Blog
Yesterday, rumors surfaced around Yahoo!’s imminent shutdown of its MyBlogLog service. Frankly, it’s no secret within Yahoo! that we’re actively discussing the future of MyBlogLog. However, it’s also true that we have not made any final decisions at this point. Is a shutdown on the table? Sure, that’s an option. But there are other options as well. We know this creates some uncertainty for current MyBlogLog users. While we aren’t quite ready to share more details, we promise to keep you posted.
Chris Yeh, Head of YDN
Scott Rafer, one of the MyBlogLog co-founders commented on the ReadWriteWeb story:
I would like to draw your attention to this portion of Scott’s comment:
The various MBL alumni are figuring out how to bring out helpful new publisher services. News on the first project that should see the light of day will appear @hearttheweb in January.
What is Heart The Web?
hearttheweb.com
http://twitter.com/hearttheweb
Vidrollr is a new creation from Invokemedia, the makers of HootSuite.
With its crisp, simple interface and ease-of-use, it’s a slick new way to share thoughts and get people talking within your branded environment. Effectively, Vidrollr is a non-intrusive advertising platform that engages your target audience in a way no other platform can and is especially suited for Social TV.
According to Wikipedia Social television is a general term for technology that supports communication and interaction in the context of watching television, or related to TV content.
Until now there has been no easy solution to integrating the two mediums. Vidrollr makes this issue easily solvable and does so nearly instantly. It is low risk since it uses existing technologies and it becomes a revenue center because it is branded/sponsored.
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