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This post is in answer to the question, ”What is the ShareThis icon you see at the end of every post?”
To paraphrase the programmer’s Web site, ShareThis is a one-step sharing tool that makes sharing information online hassle free. It is the easiest and most efficient way to share anything you want, where you want, to who you want!
Share with many friends in one step:
ShareThis lets you share content from this site to MySpace, Facebook, AIM, email, and even SMS to mobile devices simultaneously.
ShareThis also allows you to easily share to any of your friends by importing your contacts from Gmail, Yahoo, Facebook, MySpace, AIM, Outlook and more. Try it out, it is very easy to use.
October 2nd, 2008 at 8:43 AM
Hi Bob, my name is Justin Thorp. I’m the Developer Community Manager at the universal sharing service Clearspring Technologies. I was curious why you chose ShareThis for your blog. Are you familiar with AddThis (http://addthis.com)? It’s our bookmark sharing service. I’d love to hear your thoughts. Drop me an e-mail. (justin@clearspring.com)
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:38 PM
Hello, Justin. I will certsinly check out AddThis.
I started using ShareThis some time ago after finding it in the WP plugins directory. It was used because it offered site users an easy way to send their friends a notice that they found a particular post interesting. At the time, I was not aware of an alternative.