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A Brief History of Using AddThis Dynamically

May 7, 2013 / written by Paul / Features & Tips / 2 comments

AddThis provides several ways of making our code work on dynamic websites. Here’s a quick rundown for the JavaScript savvy audience out there.

Asynchronous Loading

Asynchronous loading allows you to put our bootloader script–addthiswidget.js–on your page without loading the other assets until you’re ready. To use it, just add the #async=1 flag to the addthiswidget.js URL and then call addthis.init() in a JavaScript function when you’re ready. That will load the assets, and render the AddThis tools. Continue →

Don’t Panic! UX Methods Apply to Mobile

April 30, 2013 / written by UXMatthew / Design, Features & Tips / 3 comments

Everywhere you look, people are talking about “mobile.”
Mobile-first design, mobile responsive design, mobile apps, mobile sites, etc.
“Mobile” is clearly a handy buzzword for all of the new devices, but…

What does “mobile” actually mean?

On the go?
A small screen?
A touch screen?
Handheld?

Unfortunately, the term “mobile” is used to describe many different things. Continue →

Latest AddThis Update: Joomla

April 11, 2013 / written by Ifdy / Features & Tips, What's New / 9 comments

In the latest round of product updates, we’ve got new plugins and modules in store for Joomla users. You can also get follow buttons for your Joomla page!

Click here to download the sharing tools.

“Honey, I lost the buttons!”

April 9, 2013 / written by Paul / Engineering, Features & Tips / 16 comments

We’ve received some questions lately from folks whose AddThis buttons seem to have disappeared. Naturally, this would be really disconcerting, so here are a few things that you can look into to calm your nerves!

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Facebook Like Counters, AddThis, & You

March 28, 2013 / written by Paul / Features & Tips / 6 comments

On Monday, around 1PM Pacific Time, Facebook had an issue with their comments and the counter for their Facebook Like button that made it appear for many people–including TechCrunch–that they had lost all their Facebook Likes.

Unfortunately, this was out of our hands since the problem happened on Facebook’s end. But I thought this would be a good time to explain how counter values work, and where those values are stored. Continue →

Follow Button Social Profiles

February 27, 2013 / written by Greg Franko / Engineering, Features & Tips, What's New / 5 comments

Today, we are happy to offer the new Find Profiles feature to help you with creating AddThis Follow buttons.

The Find Profiles feature helps you find all of your Twitter and Facebook profiles (usernames and pages), and then allows you to select which profile(s) to use for your follow buttons. Continue →

Named to OnMedia Top 100 Private Companies

February 26, 2013 / written by susan / Features & Tips / 1 comment

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Recapping a Golden Night at the Oscars

February 26, 2013 / written by Greg Cypes / Features & Tips / 1 comment

The 2013 Academy Awards will be remembered for Jennifer Lawrence, the number of men with beards, Life of Pi, the relative brevity of the show (3 hours and 35 minutes, well short of the 2002 record of 4 hours of 23 minutes), and Seth MacFarlane’s relatively benign monologue and hosting. Continue →

No Power Outage? Twitter Still Takes the Grammys

February 12, 2013 / written by susan / Features & Tips / 6 comments

Did you watch the Grammys this weekend? From debut performances to Hunger Games like costuming, the program was as much a string of concerts as awards show. As usual, we took a look at what was happening across the web during the show. Humor me while I geek out for a moment, because this is super interesting. First, some overall social trends: Continue →