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Continuing on my AddThis journey from last post, I’ve moved away from doing something really custom for the social bookmarking part of this project. My fear as the designer is that a slick functionality is going to take away from the project itself. My fear as the developer is that making something that doesn’t hook up to AddThis’ data will become obsolete and will require updates. So, I decided to do some research on getting the native AddThis popup menus to work with a Flash site. I was kind of leary about it, but I read this post and decided that it might be worth attempting. Read more …

I’m working on social bookmarking integration on a project. By far, the easiest way to do this is to use the AddThis service. It gives all the tracking and metrics information if you want it and it takes of the little differences between how each service bookmarks and homogenizes it down to a simple link that redirects you to the service. Basically, AddThis works as a middle man between a lot of the social bookmarking sites out there. As of this post, AddThis has 54 services that it supports. It also has a good API that allows an AddThis badge to be added quite easily to a HTML page. Read more …