AddThis Blog » Blogroll http://www.addthis.com/blog News and updates from AddThis Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:16:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Is Your AddThis Code Up-to-Date? http://www.addthis.com/blog/2011/09/09/is-your-addthis-code-up-to-date/ http://www.addthis.com/blog/2011/09/09/is-your-addthis-code-up-to-date/#comments Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:41:58 +0000 Jim Lane http://www.addthis.com/blog/?p=2973 If it’s been a while since you got your AddThis code, you may not be enjoying all the benefits AddThis analytics have to offer. We’ve introduced a new Code Checkup feature for registered publishers that can examine your site’s AddThis code and determine whether it is up-to-date, and has the most recent features enabled.

Using Code Checkup

To checkup your own site, sign in to AddThis.com. When you start in Analytics, you’ll see a new link called Code Checkup next to your domain:

When you select that link, we’ll examine the code on your index page and make sure you’re all set to go with the latest AddThis analytics features like measuring traffic back to your site from social destinations, and tracking when your visitors copy your URLs into emails and IM conversations:

As always, we’d love to hear what you think about this new feature.

Not Registered with AddThis?

If you didn’t register when you got AddThis for your site, why not create an account and grab the latest code so you can take advantage of features like Code Checkup and industrial-strength analytics with live reporting and audience analysis? It only takes a moment, and we’ve added the latest sharing tools like Twitter Follow and Google +1.

 

]]> http://www.addthis.com/blog/2011/09/09/is-your-addthis-code-up-to-date/feed/ 11 Get the Latest AddThis Sharing Tools http://www.addthis.com/blog/2011/09/08/get-the-latest-addthis-sharing-tools/ http://www.addthis.com/blog/2011/09/08/get-the-latest-addthis-sharing-tools/#comments Thu, 08 Sep 2011 12:35:23 +0000 Jim Lane http://www.addthis.com/blog/?p=2976 We’re always looking for new ways to improve the user experience of our tools and offer elegant new ways to make sharing easy and fun. Along the way we strive for solutions that are simple, streamlined, and respectful of the look and feel of sites in which publishers install our software.

We’ve added three new entries to AddThis Labs that demonstrate these ideas and introduce some exciting new sharing tools you can use in your site or blog.

Design Updates

All three tools utilize enhanced AddThis sharing experiences that include:

  • a vertical sharing menu that presents more of the viewer’s personalized services to boost sharing
  • a redesigned email interface
  • a redesigned expanded service selection menu, to make finding your favorite services easier than ever
  • a redesigned share counter to visually match other counters you might be using on your site

 

Updated Toolbox

The first addition to AddThis Labs is an elegant 32x32px Toolbox which includes the design enhancements above. See it in action or just grab the code.

We’ve also create two other new surfaces for your sharing enjoyment:

 

Floating Horizontal Bar

Imagine a sharing tool that only presents itself when your readers are ready to share. The new floating horizontal bar is easy to install and remains out of the way until the viewer begins scrolling down your page. You can customize the size of the sharing options, as well as the color of the bar. See it in action or just grab the code.

 

Floating Vertical Bar

Like its counterpart, the floating vertical bar stays with the reader as he or she scrolls down the page, but does so in the margin of the page instead of across the top. Like all AddThis Tools, this menu is completely customizable and includes the design enhancements above. See it in action or just grab the code.

 

We want to hear from you!

We’d love to hear what you think about these features. Please visit our forum and leave us some feedback and as always, thank you for using AddThis.

Jim Lane
Director of User Experience
AddThis

]]> http://www.addthis.com/blog/2011/09/08/get-the-latest-addthis-sharing-tools/feed/ 17 Moving to Bigger, Better, and Faster Servers http://www.addthis.com/blog/2007/01/19/moving-to-bigger-better-and-faster-servers/ http://www.addthis.com/blog/2007/01/19/moving-to-bigger-better-and-faster-servers/#comments Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:50:32 +0000 Dominique Vonarburg http://blog.addthis.com/?p=4 We certainly hope you all had a great holiday.

The traffic on AddThis is continuing to grow very fast – we are now serving about 750,000 buttons per day, or over 8 per second – so we’ve decided to finally move to bigger, better, and faster servers.

The move will happen over the weekend. Disruption should be minimal.

]]> http://www.addthis.com/blog/2007/01/19/moving-to-bigger-better-and-faster-servers/feed/ 0 Santa Bringing ‘AddThis Widget’ to Readers of Popular ‘Read/Write Web’ Blog http://www.addthis.com/blog/2006/12/26/santa-bringing-addthis-widget-to-readers-of-popular-readwrite-web-blog/ http://www.addthis.com/blog/2006/12/26/santa-bringing-addthis-widget-to-readers-of-popular-readwrite-web-blog/#comments Tue, 26 Dec 2006 23:37:43 +0000 Dominique Vonarburg http://blog.addthis.com/?p=5 Popular blog Read/Write Web just offered 5 widgets to its readers for Christmas. Guess who is on the list? Yep, the AddThis widget. Here is the list, from the original post:

Top 5 widgets every blogger must haveTracy Pizzo, the Director of Business Development at Widget box, emailed us a handpicked list of the top 5 must-have widgets for every blogger. This list was compiled based on popularity on Widget box, as well as ease of use and user appeal. The top 5 are:

Thank you Alex and Tracy, for mentioning us to Santa! ;-)

]]> http://www.addthis.com/blog/2006/12/26/santa-bringing-addthis-widget-to-readers-of-popular-readwrite-web-blog/feed/ 0 AddThis.com Serving 500,000+ Buttons Daily, Only 3 Months after Launch at DEMO http://www.addthis.com/blog/2006/12/22/addthiscom-serving-500000-buttons-daily-only-3-months-after-launch-at-demo/ http://www.addthis.com/blog/2006/12/22/addthiscom-serving-500000-buttons-daily-only-3-months-after-launch-at-demo/#comments Fri, 22 Dec 2006 18:37:13 +0000 Dominique Vonarburg http://blog.addthis.com/?p=6 Less than 3 months after our launch at DEMOfall 2006, AddThis.com is already serving over 500,000 buttons each day (or over 20 millions to-date).

It’s probably time to upgrade our servers…! But we are just warming up. We think we’ll probably reach 1 Million in January.

So, thank you, to all of you for using AddThis. Please continue to spread the word.

We wish you a happy holiday season and a very social year 2007!

]]> http://www.addthis.com/blog/2006/12/22/addthiscom-serving-500000-buttons-daily-only-3-months-after-launch-at-demo/feed/ 2 AddThis Makes Top 3 of Most Popular Widgets at WidgetBox.com http://www.addthis.com/blog/2006/12/12/addthis-makes-top-3-of-most-popular-widgets-at-widgetboxcom/ http://www.addthis.com/blog/2006/12/12/addthis-makes-top-3-of-most-popular-widgets-at-widgetboxcom/#comments Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:02:26 +0000 Dominique Vonarburg http://blog.addthis.com/?p=7 We are happy to report that the AddThis social bookmark button is now in the top 3 of the most popular widgets at Widgetbox.com.

]]> http://www.addthis.com/blog/2006/12/12/addthis-makes-top-3-of-most-popular-widgets-at-widgetboxcom/feed/ 1 AddThis Button for Blogger Beta http://www.addthis.com/blog/2006/12/08/addthis-button-for-blogger-beta/ http://www.addthis.com/blog/2006/12/08/addthis-button-for-blogger-beta/#comments Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:18:07 +0000 Dominique Vonarburg http://blog.addthis.com/?p=8 We’ve just added support for Blogger Beta. If you are using Google’s Blogger Beta for your blog, you can now add our bookmarking button on all your posts (past and future). All you need to do is add this code once to your template, and you are done.

]]> http://www.addthis.com/blog/2006/12/08/addthis-button-for-blogger-beta/feed/ 5 “Add This!” FeedFlare For FeedBurner Users http://www.addthis.com/blog/2006/12/06/add-this-feedflare-for-feedburner-users/ http://www.addthis.com/blog/2006/12/06/add-this-feedflare-for-feedburner-users/#comments Wed, 06 Dec 2006 19:20:24 +0000 Dominique Vonarburg http://blog.addthis.com/?p=9 If you are using FeedBurner to manage your feed, you can now easily add the “Add This!” FeedFlare to it. This will automatically add an “Add This!” link below each post (see image below).

Here is the URL of the FeedFlare. Copy it and paste it into your FeedBurner->Optimize->FeedFlare->Personal Flare box, and press “Add New Flare”. Then, check the two checkboxes next to the new entry, and hit “Save” at the bottom of the page.

http://www.addthis.com/feedflares/link.xml

And if you have a TypePad blog and you’ve decided to connect it to FeedBurner, the “Add This!” link will also show up in your blog.

Note: You don’t have to have Feedburner to include the “Add This!” link or “Add This!” button into your TypePad blog. You can also do it this way.

Socially yours!

]]> http://www.addthis.com/blog/2006/12/06/add-this-feedflare-for-feedburner-users/feed/ 8 AddThis Del.icio.us-ly Popular http://www.addthis.com/blog/2006/12/01/addthis-delicious-ly-popular/ http://www.addthis.com/blog/2006/12/01/addthis-delicious-ly-popular/#comments Fri, 01 Dec 2006 15:32:40 +0000 Dominique Vonarburg http://blog.addthis.com/?p=10 Here is a powerful proof that AddThis simply works. Thanks to our button (and those of you using it, of course), today AddThis was listed on the Del.icio.us Popular page, [update: and the hot list, on main page] sending us a lot of traffic.

To make sure this is not just a coincidence, we looked at our AddThis Statistics tool, and sure enough, we observed a significant increase in the use of our button for bookmarking our website to Del.icio.us within the past 24 hours.

]]> http://www.addthis.com/blog/2006/12/01/addthis-delicious-ly-popular/feed/ 1 Blog Post Social Bookmarking Buttons http://www.addthis.com/blog/2006/11/30/blog-post-social-bookmarking-buttons/ http://www.addthis.com/blog/2006/11/30/blog-post-social-bookmarking-buttons/#comments Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:29:38 +0000 Dominique Vonarburg http://blog.addthis.com/?p=11 This is way overdue, but we finally found some time to develop them. We now also provide social bookmarking buttons that you can include in all your blog posts. This will make it easy for your readers to quickly bookmark a story from your blog (and promote it to the social bookmarking services). For an example of the buttons, look right below this post.

To get your button, go here. What you need to do is include the code we provide into the template of your blog. When you do that, it will automatically add the AddThis bookmarking button in all your posts (past and future). We support TypePad and MovableType, Blogger, and WordPress. More platforms will also be supported soon.

It’s easy to add the button to Blogger and WordPress. With TypePad it’s a little bit trickier. If you have TypePad and use their ‘Basic Template’, you first need to convert it into an ‘Advanced Template’. If you need help you can always contact TypePad Support; tell them that you want to add the AddThis social bookmarking button at the bottom of your blog posts. They will be able to help you.

On another note, if you haven’t noticed, we also recently added a ‘Demo Area’ to the AddThis website. This area shows some examples of websites and blogs that have included our buttons. Take a look!

Add This is really taking off. Everybody love our buttons. This is very encouraging. By the way, if you find a bug or would like to make suggestions for new features, remember, there is a form for it. We keep hearing great things about our buttons. If you don’t like something about them, please let us know, we want to hear that too. Here is the form again.

Have a great social day!

]]> http://www.addthis.com/blog/2006/11/30/blog-post-social-bookmarking-buttons/feed/ 2 AddThis Partners with HitsLink.com http://www.addthis.com/blog/2006/11/13/addthis-partners-with-hitslinkcom/ http://www.addthis.com/blog/2006/11/13/addthis-partners-with-hitslinkcom/#comments Mon, 13 Nov 2006 16:25:56 +0000 Dominique Vonarburg http://blog.addthis.com/?p=12 “Established in 1999, HitsLink is a leading online service to track hundreds of real-time website statistics. Easy to implement, simply paste a small tracking script on your site’s pages and start viewing reports within seconds. HitsLink is provided in two versions: HitsLink Entreprise and HitsLink Professional.” HitsLink.com

AddThis is very pleased to announce a partnership with HitsLinks.com. We are looking forward to a long and fructuous relationship with this great website statistics service.

]]> http://www.addthis.com/blog/2006/11/13/addthis-partners-with-hitslinkcom/feed/ 0 Rohit Bhargava on AddThis.com http://www.addthis.com/blog/2006/11/08/rohit-bhargava-on-addthiscom/ http://www.addthis.com/blog/2006/11/08/rohit-bhargava-on-addthiscom/#comments Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:53:02 +0000 Dominique Vonarburg http://blog.addthis.com/?p=13 Rohit Bhargava of Ogilvy Public Relations is being credited with coining the term “Social Media Optimization”. Here is what Rohit says about AddThis:

“As the growth of personal media and blogs in particular continues to explode online, every blogger will need smart tools to help optimize their sites for social media.  AddThis.com offers some of the best tools I have seen for helping to optimize your blog by quickly creating and integrating buttons for RSS feeds and social bookmarking sites.”

Rohit has also added the AddThis buttons on his blog. Read about Rohit’s 5 Rules of Social Media Optimization.

Thanks a lot, Rohit!

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We are glad to introduce GetAFreelancer.com as a new partner. We are looking forward to a succesful relationship with them. If you need to outsource a project, visit this great service, GetAFreelancer.com.

]]> http://www.addthis.com/blog/2006/11/03/addthis-partners-with-getafreelancercom/feed/ 0 AddThis Launches Public Beta http://www.addthis.com/blog/2006/10/02/addthis-launches-public-beta/ http://www.addthis.com/blog/2006/10/02/addthis-launches-public-beta/#comments Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:00:00 +0000 Dominique Vonarburg http://blog.addthis.com/?p=15 Last week we officially launched our new product AddThis.com at the prestigious DEMOfall 2006 conference. The event was a blast, so many new ideas and products, so many great people, and so much attention. We really recommend attending or presenting at this conference.We took the stage, like 67 other pre-selected companies did, and demoed AddThis to a crowd of tech journalists and investors. One great thing about DEMO is that is offers its presenters a level playing field. Big companies or small, all have exactly 6 minutes to present their product.

Each company also has a booth (all the same size) where they can futher demo their product or technology to attendees. A lot of people came to ours, many were very curious about AddThis.

This week we are launching our public beta. We already have several beta partners, with Globat.com and TemplateMonster.com among the biggest. If your company is interested in becoming a beta partner for AddThis, drop us a note.

We wanted to take this opportunity to thank all of you who have participated in our private beta. Your feedback played a key role in the launch of AddThis.

]]> http://www.addthis.com/blog/2006/10/02/addthis-launches-public-beta/feed/ 0 Add Me Unveils "AddThis Button", Announces Public Beta http://www.addthis.com/blog/2006/09/25/add-me-unveils-addthis-button-announces-public-beta/ http://www.addthis.com/blog/2006/09/25/add-me-unveils-addthis-button-announces-public-beta/#comments Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:00:00 +0000 Dominique Vonarburg http://blog.addthis.com/?p=16 Add Me, the popular Internet marketing company, today unveiled its new product AddThis.com at the prestigious DEMOfall 2006 conference in San Diego, California. Add Me also announced the launch of the AddThis.com public beta, which will begin in October 2006.

]]> http://www.addthis.com/blog/2006/09/25/add-me-unveils-addthis-button-announces-public-beta/feed/ 0 AddMe Selected to Present at DEMOfall 2006 http://www.addthis.com/blog/2006/08/30/addme-selected-to-present-at-demofall-2006/ http://www.addthis.com/blog/2006/08/30/addme-selected-to-present-at-demofall-2006/#comments Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:00:00 +0000 Dominique Vonarburg http://blog.addthis.com/?p=17 We are very excited to announce that AddMe has been selected to present at the prestigious DEMOfall conference. DEMOfall 2006, an emerging technology launch platform, will take place in San Diego, California, from September 25 to 27. The new product, AddThis.com, will make it easier for web publishers to distribute content and web users to collect it. “AddThis.com is a clever service that could well change the way people bookmark Websites and subscribe to feeds,” Said Chris Shipley, executive producer of DEMOfall.

]]> http://www.addthis.com/blog/2006/08/30/addme-selected-to-present-at-demofall-2006/feed/ 0 AddThis.com Goes Online http://www.addthis.com/blog/2006/06/15/addthiscom-goes-online/ http://www.addthis.com/blog/2006/06/15/addthiscom-goes-online/#comments Thu, 15 Jun 2006 14:00:00 +0000 Dominique Vonarburg http://blog.addthis.com/?p=18 AddThis (aka Add This) goes online and launches its private beta

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