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- The AddThis Flash Cookie… We Need Your FeedbackJanuary 5
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Wow! 2008 has been quite the year. In the last six months alone, a lot of exciting things have happened. In September, AddThis became part of the Clearspring family of sharing products. Since then, we’ve been heads down working to make the tool the best it possibly can be.
As we announced back in October, we’ve started using a Flash cookie (the same one that’s used in Clearspring’s analytics engine) to help give us insight into how we can give you all a better sharing experience, deep publisher analytics, monetization capabilities, and more.
There has been a lot of discussion around this. We’ve been tracking all of the conversations, reading every piece of feedback, and responding as much as possible. We really care about you guys. You guys are the reason why AddThis is the success that it is.
Well, from when we started using the Flash cookie, we’ve learned a lot. In this post, we wanted to tell you a bit more about the roadmap for AddThis and what the Flash cookie is allowing us to do.
First and foremost, our goal is to provide you with a tool that’s going to help your content get the most sharing possible and then provide you the data so you can learn about how your content is getting shared.
With the cookie, we’re going to be able to provide you with data about the number of unique visitors that you’re getting. For th
- How I Installed AddThis in MediaWikiDecember 30 2008
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As part of a side project, I’ve been playing around with the ever-popular wiki software MediaWiki. It’s the software that’s used to power Wikipedia.
After I got MediaWiki installed, I wanted to figure out how to install AddThis on all of my pages so they’d be shareable. Here’s how I did it…
Obviously, first I created an AddThis account. From there, I clicked on the “Get Your Button Code” button in the upper right-hand part of the page. I created a sharing/bookmarking button for a website and got my AddThis button code.
Next, I found the appropriate file for my MediaWiki skin. If you’re still using the default skin, it’d be skins > MonoBook.php. Open the file in your favorite coding application.
The file will show all the PHP that marks the beginnings of the HTML page.
I wanted to put the AddThis button right after the page’s title. If you’d like to do that, find this code <h1 class=”firstHeading”… After that line, paste the AddThis button code.
Finally, I published that file and I was set to go.
Let me know if you find these instructions useful. Drop me an e-mail - justin@addthis.com
- AddThis Wordpress Plugin ReduxDecember 23 2008
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As a holiday present from us to you, we’ve finally updated our WordPress plugin. It’s way more customizable, and integrated with the WordPress dashboard so you don’t have to know anything about PHP to make changes.
Download it here:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/addthis/As always, we appreciate your feedback! Many of the features of this new plugin came straight out of forum discussions.
Enjoy!
- Check Out The New AddThis Video TourDecember 17 2008
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We’re really excited about AddThis and how easily it can make your content shareable. We’ve been brainstorming ways that we could share our excitement and the value proposition with you.
Our genius creative director recently put the finishing touches on an AddThis Video Tour, kind of a 60 second commercial, and I wanted to share it with you guys.
As always, if you ever any questions, thoughts, feedback, or you just wanna say hi, e-mail me - justin@addthis.com. We ALWAYS love meeting our users.
- Vote for Clearspring & AddThis in the Mashable’s Open Web AwardsNovember 20 2008
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Note: This has been cross-posted on the Clearspring blog.
Friends, I have some great news. With your help, we’ve been nominated for three categories of Mashable’s Open Web Awards. Clearspring has been nominated for best in Embeddable Widgets. AddThis has been nominated for best in Blog Plugins and and Social Bookmarking.
All I can say is THANK YOU!. Your nominations & votes mean so much to us. We wouldn’t be where we are today without you. It’s all of your time, thoughts, and feedback, which have helped to make our tools best-in-class. We’re absolutely a team in this process.
Well, we need your help again. We’re on to Round 1 of voting for the Open Web Awards. Mashable has created these handy dandy widgets to help with the voting process. (See the links below) We’ve taken their widgets and wrapped them with our widget platform Launchpad so that you can place them and share them all over the Web.
Until midnight on November 30th, you can vote once for Clearspring and AddThis every 24 hours in the categories we’re in.
Thanks again for all your help with this. Here are the widgets: