The AddThis Blog

Yesterday, we passed a really exciting milestone – the AddThis Firefox Add-on passed 200,000 downloads. This is exciting because not only have downloads increased, but so has the pace of the downloads. We got to 100K from April 2009 to July 2009. Our growth from 100-200K has been in just a month and a half – nearly 1/2 the time.

We’re incredibly excited about our toolbar strategy. People want the ability to share, no matter where they are or what they’re doing. The AddThis Firefox Add-on makes it so that, regardless of what Web page you’re on, you can always share and do it using the power of AddThis.

Given the success of our Firefox Plug-in, we also recently announced our AddThis IE Toolbar to help our friends using IE. If you don’t like toolbars, try our AddThis Bookmarklets.

If you have any questions or if there is a way that we can improve these products, don’t hesitate to drop me a line - justin@addthis.com.

Months ago, we announced direct integration with Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail address books right from the AddThis menu.  Based on feedback and testing, we are making this feature opt-in.

You’ll have to use our API to turn it on versus it being on for everyone by default.  In addition to making this feature opt-in, we’ll be adding Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail as services within the AddThis menu. When you click on those services, a new tab will be popped up in

your browser, and your e-mail service will open up.

We’re expecting this to be released sometime the middle of next month. We just wanted to give everyone a heads up.

It’s that time of year again. One of the biggest conferences in the Web industry, South By Southwest (SXSW) Interactive, has published their list of proposals for next year’s (2010) conference in their Panel Picker Web application and is asking the world to vote on who they think should be included.

Can you spare 5 minutes, check out our panels, and give them a vote? We’d really appreciate it.

Here’s the list…

• The Arms Race: Delivering Perfect Ad
• Building Your Community Across a World of Communities
• Growing Social: Using Social Platforms to Grow-Fast
• Government, Meet the People (Online)

Thanks so much for your vote.

Are you going to SXSW? If so, drop us a comment. We’d love to meetup with as many folks as possible.

Note: This was also published on the Clearspring blog.  (Clearspring is the parent company of AddThis.)

Today, we’re excited to announce two additions to our family of tools which make it easy to share the great content that you find online.

Over the last few months, we’ve seen tremendous success with the AddThis Firefox Add-on and Bookmarklets. Not only are people sharing with it, they’re sharing A LOT. We figured it was time to starting extending the same power of AddThis into other browser platforms.

You can now download the AddThis Internet Explorer (IE) Toolbar. Just like its older brother in Firefox, it will allow you to share the content you love to services that you love with just a couple of clicks, all using the AddThis functionality integrated right into your browser.

But the fun doesn’t stop there with the IE Toolbar; we’re trying something new. We’re adding a search box to the toolbar. Search (or discovery) and sharing are two pieces of functionality that go hand in hand. We’re anxious to hear feedback from our users and see how this will propel our users to share and connect over new and interesting content.

Just like we did with our Firefox Plug-in, we’re going to be promoting our IE Toolbar within the AddThis menu for those of you that are using Internet Explorer. Yes, this is self promotion on our part but the net result of people using the IE Toolbar is that they share more, which means they’ll be sharing your content more. It’s a win for all of us.

Additionally, today we’ve released our AddThis Moveable Type Plug-in. With this official plug-in, you can now easily integrate AddThis into your Moveable Type blog or Web site.

With this, we now have AddThis plug-ins for WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and Moveable Type. What are we missing? We want to make it as easy as possible for you to make your content shareable so that it can reach every corner of the social Web.

As always, if you have any comments, questions or concerns, don’t hesitate to drop me a line – justin@addthis.com.

Over the last year, we’ve seen AddThis grow a tremendous amount. We reach over half a billion people a month, which comes out to almost half of everyone on the World Wide Web. AddThis is used by Web publishers from all over the world, from many countries and in many languages. To support this, over time with the help of our users, we’ve translated the AddThis user interface into 21 different languages.

Going forward we’d like to support many many more. We’re pleased to announce the launch of our community translation system. Users can now easily find a language, translate the phrases, and submit it to us for quality assurance. They call also make suggestions about ways for us to improve and revise our existing languages.

All translation submissions will be reviewed and approved for addition to the AddThis sharing menu. This process may take up to 30 days.

Since we quietly launched this early this week, we’ve already gotten suggestions, revisions, and translations from the community. We hope to be using the input that we collect from this to launch many more languages soon.

Our goal is to empower everyone to be able to share the content they love to whatever destinations and services they use. This helps us get one step closer to that goal.

As always, let us know what you think – justin@addthis.com