Loading ...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.
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August 20th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
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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August 20th, 2007 at 5:46 pm
Hi Jay. Thanks for dropping by and letting us all know about the coming features!
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March 12th, 2008 at 11:59 am
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.
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