Adam’s Blog

Reaching Over Half a Billion People

At the very end of May 2009, we had the pleasure of announcing that our sharing platform now reaches over half a billion people. It’s amazing to see how much we’ve grown since we were acquired by Clearspring back in September of 2008. Thanks so much to all of you who’ve used our tools, helped us make them better and attain this pretty amazing reach.

AddThis for the iPhone

So much of our lives are spent away from the computer. More and more people are using the iPhone as their portable computer of choice for staying up-to-date with what’s happening in the world around them. Thus, we’ve decided to optimize the AddThis menu for sharing from the iPhone. Check it out. We plan to due a lot more things in this area. Stay tuned.

Download the Official AddThis Joomla Extensions

Do you use Joomla as the CMS for your site? Well we have a treat for you. Right now you can download the official AddThis extensions for Joomla and easily make your content shareable with our industry leading tools. Download it now.

Upgrade Your AddThis Code Today!

As you’ve seen, we’ve made A LOT of improvements to AddThis over the last 6 months. If you’re using the default configuration and your button doesn’t interact like the sample button on AddThis.com, try grabbing a fresh version of the code. If you’re logged in, you can go here – http://addthis.com/web-button-select. We want to make sure that you’re enjoying all the fruits of our labors. If you have any problems upgrading or if you have a more complicated customized setup, drop a comment in our forum. We’d be happy to help. – http://addthis.com/forum

Helping AddThis and Flash Play Nicely Together

Ever have a problem getting the AddThis menu and Flash to place nicely together. Flash objects often conflict with other HTML elements – this is a common problem. Well worry no more. We have a help page which will walk you through solving this problem. Go here – http://addthis.com/help/flash.

The ‘MJ’ Effect – How People Connected to Discuss the King of Pop

Because AddThis has been adopted so much, we get pretty interesting insights into when and what people share online. Well last Thursday, when news that Michael Jackson had passed away made it to the Web, we saw a pretty amazing spike in sharing usage for Facebook. Read all about it and check out the graph in a recent blog post from Mashable.

Have you tried our friends Lijit and JS-Kit?

At AddThis, we’re running across great online tools all the time. We’ve recently recommended Lijit and JS-Kit Comments. Have you tried them yet? We’d love to hear your thoughts. E-mail me – justin@addthis.com