Shareaholic. Not you, the extension
Socialize this, socialize that. Yep, its all about letting others know what you like and snooping on what others like.
If that works for you, Bzzster has released Shareaholic, a Firefox extension, that lets you share the current visited web page through some of the most notable link sharing sites: digg, reddit, Facebook, StumbleUpon and Google Bookmark. One click and you are ready to go. No more looking for web publishers provided buttons, and no more bookmarklets piling up.
Additionally you can also send a link by email using Bzzster service, a different approach to bookmark sharing that still provides the convenience of a record of all shared links and the opportunity to find a gem among other’s submissions.
The Shareaholic menu also lists the twenty something most recently emailed links by Bzzter’s users and displays how many times the current web page has been dugg or saved to del.icio.us.
I just hope it was extensible and more social sites could be added (and removed) from the share menu and that it was available as a status bar icon. I guess emailing links via Gmail, Yahoo! and other web mail providers is out of question since it’s Bzzster’s business.
Get Shareaholic from Mozilla Addons.
Comments
Percy Cabello
Hi Jay. Thanks for dropping by and letting us all know about the coming features!
Andrew Conkling
An interesting idea, but I hate extensions that insist on adding items to your context menu. I’ve been using this extension happily, but I wish extension authors would use such additions sparingly.
Robert Walborn
How do I completely remove the unwanted Yahoo toolbar I really like Firefox,but I don’t usually use programs that give me no options as to what programs are installed on my computer, Whose hairbrain idea was it to just add it, instead of offering it as an addon, for those who would want it.-
Jay Meattle
Hi Percy,
What a pleasant surprise! I’ve been following you blog for a while, and I jumped up when I saw Shareaholic written up here!
I’m the creator of the extension. I am pretty close to releasing the next version of the extension — added Twitter and Magnolia + some tweaks. Stay tuned.
Feel free to email me directly with suggestions. Would love to hear your thoughts.
And no, emailing links via Gmail, Yahoo! is not out of the question — if that’s what everyone wants. I do however strongly believe Bzzster is the way to go for emailing links :)
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