With the Golden Globe nominations announced yesterday, we have movies on our mind. This year’s top grossing movies have kept us on the edge of our seat with action and warmed our hearts with sequels to animated films.
With the new year just around the corner, don’t be caught with your pants down without these tips/suggestions in your back pockets. (Did you catch the pun there?) 
1. Get on the Responsive Design Train
Mobile ready, mobile now! If you’ve been slacking/pushing it off, now’s the time to bring that idea into the front burner, and crank it out. More and more sites are getting responsive, as more and more people use their phones as a primary want to connect to the internet. (Btw, Smart Layers is mobile-ready.)
Anyone that has their Google Alerts set up to include native advertising knows that it’s been tough to keep up with the sheer volume of opinion and news on the topic this year. From defining it, to debating the pros and cons, to understanding the new advertising solutions––there’s a lot to consider for any brand, publisher, or Website owner that’s considering a native ad strategy.
In many cases, the way someone refers to a person or topic of conversation can reveal how that person feels about the subject. The same can go for sharing: the way people share content about a subject can say a lot about how they feel/think about it.
Case in point: in September and October, we saw a great deal of political conversation around health care reform in the social world. Continue →
We want you to start the year strong, and this infographic is a start to help you create content your visitors will love engaging with.
From all of us at AddThis to our lovely community around the U.S., we want to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving! We’re very grateful for our users, and we’d like to take this moment to thank you for being awesome. We thrive to work on products that’ll help YOU reach your site goals. Thanks for giving us that chance. 
About a year ago we released metrics-reporter-config to help us manage the configuration for all of the metrics our applications were generating using Coda Hale’s Metrics library. Continue →
Thanksgiving is a holiday characterized by food comas, friends, and family. While some traditions stand strong among American families, diet trends and new events have shaken up the typical Thanksgiving celebration. Using data from the AddThis network, we looked at social data trends of traditional and non-traditional Thanksgivings.
For the November NoVA UX meetup at AddThis HQ, coding architect and Lucid Technics partner David Hodge demonstrated what it’s like to use and design for Google Glass. Continue →
We’re so excited about AddThis user, NASA, launching on another endeavor into space! Next Monday, NASA will launch a probe to Mars. It’s called the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN probe, or MAVEN, and it’s designed to study the upper atmosphere of Mars and how it interacts with solar wind. Though it might not make sense at first, this information is very important for knowing more about the history of Mars and it’s past potential for habitability.
