“Sharing” has to be one of the biggest buzz words of the internet over the last few years. With the introduction of services like email, instant messaging, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and now Google Buzz, people have been provided with the tools for staying in contact with friends and family continuously. These services are used mostly for staying in touch, catching up on recent personal events and chatting but they have also introduced one of the most used functions of our day, sharing. People share photos, videos, links to web sites, links to music, favorite articles… the list goes on forever. “Sharing is the center of the social web.”1
In the beginning, digital sharing was done via email. Attachments were sent and frustrations elevated when emails were not received or “kicked back” because the attachments were too large. Sharing methods have evolved and changed over time and we are now inundated with hundreds of ways to share information with one another. Facebook and Twitter are by far the most popular, but many others have great feature sets and large followings. Only one service pulls them all together seamlessly, ShareThis. That little green button (the trademark of ShareThis) has made it’s way onto 130,000+ sites and reaches over 400 million users per month.
What makes ShareThis different?
ShareThis is different because it allows you to share information via other share sites/methods. When you see something you like, you can click on the ShareThis icon and send a link via email, text, Facebook, Twitter and/or 40+ more social services. The ShareThis button is already a part of many of the sites you visit every day and you can add it to your browser, so everything you see on the web can be shared in an instant.
The Most Popular ShareThis Options
Not only is ShareThis easy to get to, it is easy to use. Set up an address book within your ShareThis account and sending a link is as easy as typing a name. You can import your existing address book from Gmail, Hotmail or AOL email services. By creating an account and sharing links, you can also view a history of what you have shared called My Shares. It’s a great tool, in case you forget the name of that site that you shared a few days (or even weeks) before.
Recent Changes
Today, ShareThis introduced some new features and updated some existing components, like the ShareThis button. The Live ShareThis Stream has been introduced, combining the content your friends are sharing with what people are saying about it, and you can now connect to ShareThis account using your Facebook, Twitter, Google or Yahoo! account. Take a look at the video below and/or read this article (by Nick Bertrand of ShareThis) to get a better idea of what ShareThis has to offer.
ShareThis and JumpstartMyPC.com
Regular readers of the JumpstartMyPC.com blog will notice a few changes to the layout of our articles. We’ve been changing the sidebar (over there on the right) and we’ve recently added the ability to “Buzz this” (a Google Buzz implementation). Today, we updated our ShareThis button, which is posted below every article we write. We have provided the ShareThis button since our very first blog post and notify many of our readers about the latest articles by sending emails through the ShareThis tool daily.
Try ShareThis today. Set up an account and add some of your friends and family to your Contact List. ShareThis is FREE and has proven itself as a trusted and valuable sharing tool for all. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do.
1 – Taken from the article Google Buzz Puts Sharing at the Center of the Web on ShareThis.com
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