AddThis is a social sharing service. I’ve installed the AddThis WordPress Plugin on many Websites and use it on my own. With the Plugin, sharing icons/buttons are shown in Pages and/or Posts making it simple for visitors to share the content with services such as Google+, Facebook, Twitter and so on. This is very beneficial […]
Titanic battle between Twitter and Facebook
I always find it interesting to see the various stats regarding Social Media; which is growing and which is falling … Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Orkut, Instagram, Youtube, Linkedin …. Big news in the media over the past few days has been the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. I was fascinated to see […]
Blog Dugg to Death
A blog, fushnchups.co.nz, has received the equivalent of the digg Effect. Various newspaper and online articles have named the controversial content of the blog in the past few days. This has led to fushnchups.co.nz being unavailable (at the time of this articles writing). The ‘digg Effect’ is a reference to articles in digg becoming so […]
Social Media Bookmarking and Sharing Services
Just what are Digg, Mixx, Delicious, Reddit, Furl and the multitude of other ‘sharing’ and ‘bookmarking’ services? And more importantly, why should a website owner pay any attention to them? Often sharing and bookmarking services, and the ability to post to the services are combined such as with the tell-a-friend, add-this and ShareThis services (see […]