October 26th, 2009 by Justin Thorp in Milestones
It seems like just yesterday that we were in the middle of planning for a Hackathon and someone threw out the notion of doing an add-on for Firefox so that end users could share the Web page they were on regardless of whether or not the publisher had the AddThis button on their page.
Fast forward many months to today and we’ve just hit a pretty exciting milestone. As of this morning, the AddThis Firefox Add-on has been downloaded over 400,000 times.
The AddThis Firefox Add-on has also been consistently placing in Mozilla’s Top 10 Most Shared Add-ons. (We’re currently #4.)
Thanks so much to all of you who’ve been using it and giving us such valuable feedback. Together, we’ve made this product an incredible success. We’re very excited as we continue to further evolve the add-on, to improve the sharing experience.
If you haven’t downloaded it yet, give it a whirl and let us know what you think.
Additionally, we’ve gotten word from Mozilla that our update to the add-on has been approved. It includes access to the 100 new sharing services that we added during the release we did back in late September.
October 20th, 2009 by Justin Thorp in Updates
Once you’ve started using AddThis, part of the fun is seeing what content gets shared and where it gets shared to. Traditionally, we’ve made this information available via AddThis.com. Well, after talking to many of you, we realize that you want more options for accessing your site’s sharing data.
Well, today we’re excited to announce integration with Google Analytics and an Analytics API that you can use to access your site’s sharing data.
Launched today, in public beta, Google Analytics integration will allow you to see all of your sharing stats right within your Google Analytics account. All you have to do is add a single line of JavaScript with your Google Analytics ID to your AddThis code on your site and you’re all set. Check out the documentation for more information on how to setup your site with Google Analytics.
Secondly, last week, we quietly launched the AddThis Analytics API. This allows you to programmatically access your site’s sharing data so that you can do whatever you want with it and put it into whatever analytics environment that suits your needs. We’ve already talked to a few customers who are going to use it to create a widget on their site which displays their most shared pages.Check out our Analytics API and let us know what kind of cool things you’re doing with it. We’d be excited to hear them.
Lastly, we’ve changed the promotion for browser add-ons and made them a little bit more prominent. All in all, our browser add-ons have been HUGE successes and have got people sharing more than ever before. This means it’ll be easier for your users to share your content more often.
We’re anxious to hear what you guys think about this release. Let us know. Drop a comment on this blog post, start a forum thread, or e-mail me personally at – justin@addthis.com