Comments on: Social Bookmarking Widgets: AddThis vs ShareThis.

By: Vlad Zablotskyy

Vlad Zablotskyy — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:31:48 +0000

Michael,
Thanks for stopping by. If you can manage to do your own bookmarks like this you probably better off. Any time you implement a javascript code of a third party you are at the mercy of their servers. For me AddThis is working well, so far I have never seen any downtimes on their side.

By: Michael Hendrickx

Michael Hendrickx — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:28:39 +0000

I use AddThis on my site, and the part which I don’t like about it, is the flash tracking cookie it builds in. Sometimes it creates a 15px white border at the top, and it looks bad (I have a black background in my title).

While the stats are great, i think I might opt for my own set of buttons. They are “just links” in the end, and the top ones are twitter, fb, digg and google.

By: Vlad

Vlad — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:23:36 +0000

Nate,

Thanks for stopping by and clarifying…. I was not sure if ShareThis ever added SSL support… This explains why AddThis is more visible on tons of online stores.

By: Nate

Nate — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:26:36 +0000

I agree with Vlad. After spending several hours implementing and customizing ShareThis, I realized they don’t support SSL? Very bizarre. There is no excuse not to offer the scripts with ssl support.

AddThis however does, so this is what I am now using and I am very happy with it so far.

ShareThis really missed the boat on this one.

By: Vlad Zablotskyy

Vlad Zablotskyy — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:26:44 +0000

@Mike,

I sure need to update the post. I initially used the “Share This” widget but then switched to “Add This”. I believe at the time I made final decission Share This did not offer support for secure pages, which I needed for a client of mine.

Thanks for the heads up, I will update the post.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:12:41 +0000

Interestingly you write near the beginning that you have chosen “Share This” yet clearly the tool at the top of this post is by “Add This.”

What gives?
Mike

By: Vlad Zablotskyy

Vlad Zablotskyy — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 06:24:28 +0000

John,

Following extentions are specifically written for Joomla:
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/content-sharing/social-bookmarking/5070 – ShareThis

http://www.addthis.com/tools/joomla – AddThis

I have not tried those myself since I rarely use Joomla. But I am sure they should work well. Let me know if you tried any of the two and how did it work out for you.

Thanks for stopping by!

By: John Mosier

John Mosier — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 06:10:38 +0000

Is anyone using Addthis or sharethis with Joomla?

By: Jeff Wong

Jeff Wong — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:19:52 +0000

Hello again Vlad, I just wanted to check in and see how things were going. We’ve just made some huge enhancements recently. Our menu is optimized for every user—every menu optimizes for each individual user. We also have over 170 service, thanks to all the open service directory. We’ve opened up our directory for any service, utility, or social bookmarks to join.

I know you’ve blogged us on several occasions, and I wanted to get your opinion on any changes you’d like to see. Let me know if you have any ideas or thoughts. You can email me, or express ideas on our forum (http://www.addthis.com/forum)

Thanks!

By: Vlad Zablotskyy

Vlad Zablotskyy — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:27:40 +0000

Thanks Michael… Will be corrected.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:33:43 +0000

You have a pretty embarrassing typo. You called “Sharethis” “Showthis” twice. No worries!

By: Email: No, Disqus: Maybe « V Bit Set

Email: No, Disqus: Maybe « V Bit Set — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:19:41 +0000

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By: Vlad Zablotskyy

Vlad Zablotskyy — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 08:30:37 +0000

Looks interesting Tom. Will check it out.

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 03:51:59 +0000

Yeah I am using http://www.crowdsend.com on my site! Much better!

By: Kerri

Kerri — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:59:56 +0000

Hey Thanks for the info, I found it very useful. I look forward to reading more.

By: AddThis Improves Usability and Reporting

AddThis Improves Usability and Reporting — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:01:12 +0000

[...] allow your readers to share the content of your blog on variety of social bookmarking websites- AddThis and ShareThis. At the time I was experimenting with both widgets across my blogs. While AddThis may have been a [...]

By: Jeff wong

Jeff wong — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:15:47 +0000

That's great news. We're happy to hear you've made the switch. We've got slot of new things brewing. Thanks for the positive feedback. Jim and I will share your comments with our team! Thanks!

By: Vlad Zablotskyy

Vlad Zablotskyy — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:56:11 +0000

Yes Jim,

I noticed that. It was tipping point for me to abandon ShareThis. Look forward to new features. Thanks for stopping by!

By: Jim Lane

Jim Lane — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:27:43 +0000

Hi Vlad, I'm the UE lead here at AddThis, working with Jeff- just wanted to mention that we added domain filtering to analytics, with lots more to come — stay tuned.

By: Vlad Zablotskyy

Vlad Zablotskyy — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:18:43 +0000

Jeff it has been a while since I logged into my account at Addthis… The changes you have made are great! I will probably write a follow up. Great job!