You can get the latest version of Shareaholic here, or if you already have Shareaholic installed, simply wait for Firefox to automatically notify you of the update.

NEW: Shareaholic Buzz Monitor - Enabling Discovery

You’ve been asking us for quite some time to do more on the content discovery end of the equation. The release of the Shareaholic Buzz Monitor marks our first real experiment in this area. This feature is powered by our own proprietary data-set, and those from our friends at OneRiot, and Twitter.

Shareaholic users can now easily discover and stay on top of the latest trending topics as they emerge on the realtime web. In order to share, users need to discover something worth talking about, which is why we think the addition of the Shareaholic Buzz Monitor is a natural extension of the user experience. Now Shareaholic users will have immediate access to the most chatted about content on the social web – the stuff that’s worth sharing, right now!

Do let us know what you think, and how we can improve. We continue to improve Shareaholic based on your valuable feedback.

Partnership with OneRiot

Today, we’re also pleased to announce a formal partnership with our friends at OneRiot. Shareaholic makes sharing fast and easy, helping drive the growth of the realtime web, while OneRiot organizes the realtime web and helps users find the most socially relevant content on the web. In short, a partnership between us made a lot of sense. I’m looking forward to what more we come up with in the future.

Other new stuff in Shareaholic for Firefox v1.9:

• New destination services:
  • Su.pr - StumbleUpon’s new url shortening service
  • Mozillaca - microblog service for the Mozilla community
  • Hub.tm - url shortener by inbound marketing company HubSpot
  • Followup.cc - an email based reminder service
  • TBUZZ - a nifty Twitter link submission tool
• Updates to BzzAgent, Techmeme Tip submit code
• Added support for Songbird 1.2
• Misc. performance tweaks and updates

note: if you use the NoScript for Firefox Add-on, please make sure you read this and update your white list.

Thanks Steves Mac Fix!

If you use the NoScript for Firefox Add-on, please make sure you read this and update your white list.

What’s new in v1.8:

• Additional supported destination services:
  • AttentionMeter - if you’re into website stats, you’ll like this
  • Blogger / Blogspot
  • BzzAgent Bzzscapes - share stuff about your favorite brands
  • DiggBar - URL shortener
  • Diigolet - another way to share to Diigo
  • Identi.ca
  • Instapaper - save web pages for reading later
  • Is.gd - URL shortener
  • LiveJournal - most requested service for this release!
  • Your Desktop Mail Client (Outlook, Thunderbird, etc)
  • Netvibes
  • Ping.fm
  • Smaknews - news site for women
  • Smush.it - useful service for webmasters
  • TinyURL - URL shortener that started it all :)
  • Tipd - financial news site
  • Tr.im - URL shortener with a fantastic domain name
  • Tweetie (Mac) - the #1 mac Twitter client? a big shout out to our friends at atebits!
  • Vi.sualize.us
  • Wordpress.com / Wordpress.org - our blogging platform of choice
• Users can now specify their Bit.ly account settings for custom click tracking under advanced options
• Updates to Twitthat, LinkedIn, Buzzster code
• Misc. performance tweaks and updates

We’ve already started work on Shareaholic v1.9 is. Please keep the feedback coming!

Thanks Steve!

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ps. the bookmarklet should work in any browser.

Over the past two years, we heard all sorts of varying pronunciations of “bzzster” and thought we’ll just make it easier for everyone :) Hope you like it! More to come.

Today, I am pleased to announce that the Open Share Icon has a new website!

Why do we need another icon?

I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while, and it of course it took me a couple extra days to actually get these thoughts down, so here goes.

Background:

What started back in November 2007 with a take-down request sent to Shareaholic, turned into much much more thanks to a great web community.

Way back, the original Share Icon - - was designed with community input, and driven and popularized by Alex King and his popular wordpress plugin. We at Shareaholic bought into Alex’s mission for a standardized sharing icon, and were glad to include the icon within our products to further the cause.

Then it began:

A few months later Alex sold both the icon and his wordpress plugin to ShareThis/Nextumi, Inc. Ordinarily, this would have been fine, but unfortunately the new owners decided to change the license terms without notice, and subsequently sent Shareaholic a take-down request.

After some back and forth, we decided to comply with ShareThis.com’s request and stopped using the icon. Shareaholic was a side-project back then, but I guess big enough to make ShareThis.com a little nervous!

It just wasn’t worth it to us to spend the time or money fighting for it, even though we likely had a very good case since the icon was originally released under several Open Source licenses. In any case, at this point we had lost all trust in the new owners of the icon, and their intentions.

ShareThis has since changed back the licensing terms on their website to the icons original terms, but really, nothing prevents them from sending us or anyone else another take down request. They’ve done it before, and they can do it again.

The community rallies - yay!:

Thankfully, the web community picked up on what had happened, and decided to rally behind us to establish and support an alternative to the Share Icon that was free from the restrictions imposed by ShareThis.com. As a community, we felt that ShareThis.com’s actions did not reflect the original spirit with which the original share icon was created, and hence felt the need for a new, truly open, free and more flexible community-driven approach. As a result of this effort — the Open Share Icon was born!

The final design for the Open Share Icon is based on a lot of community input. We hope you like it. All we hope is that users of the Open Share Icon will use the icons in the spirit in which they are intended, and just play fair.

You can learn all about the Open Share Icon here, and join the conversation in our Google Group here.

I’m very thankful to the folks at AddtoAny, SmugMug, OneRiot, Scribefire, and countless more organizations, and all the volunteers and community members that stepped up to join the Open Share Icon effort for all their awesome hard work. A special shout out to Frank Dobbelaere, David Hall and Bruce McKenzie (coordinator: GeoTag Icons), and David Cancel for all their special help and support. Truly, thank you.

If you use the NoScript Firefox Add-on, make sure you read this.

If you have any suggestions whatsoever, please do let us know. We’d love your feedback.

What’s new:

• You asked for it, you got it :) v1.7 adds support for:
  • Amazon Wishlist
  • Diigo
  • Evernote
  • Google Notebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Posterous
  • Sphinn
  • Techmeme Tip
  • Tr.im
• We’re big fans of this: We’ve added the option to turn on the Shareaholic button in the URL bar right next to the orange RSS icon. We feel that this is a very natural place for the icon to live within the browser. It is turned off by default, one can turn it on from Shareaholic’s option menu.

  

• We can now toggle the main nav menu button on/off from the option menu. You have complete control.
• All services in the services drop down have keyboard shortcuts associated with them now.
• Cleaned up Options menu – services are now categorized to make them easier to go through

  

• Fixed edge case issues with Gmail, Google Bookmarks
• Updates to Twine, Soup.io, Twitter code
• Misc. performance tweaks

Some users have reported that NoScript (a very popular Firefox add-on) by default blocks certain scripts from some services like FriendFeed, Twitter, etc that need to run in order to share links with them.

For you to overcome this in the least troublesome way, we’ve compiled a whitelist for NoScript of all services that Shareaholic supports.

To use the whitelist:

1. Save the latest white list file to your desktop
2. Go to NoScript “Options”
3. Select the “Whitelist” tab -> click “Import”
4. Select the file you just saved to your desktop, and that’s it.

This should fix most issues with sharing while using NoScript.