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Jay MeattleShareaholic nows supports Songbird Media Player!

by Jay Meattle at 1pm, April 30th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

A couple of months ago, Shareaholic was picked as one of Songbird’s 40 most community-requested add-ons - “…highly desirable to the Songbird community…” :)

When the community asks, we give. So we went to work, and we’re pleased to announce that Shareaholic now fully supports Songbird!

What is Songbird?

Songbird is a desktop media player mashed-up with the Web.

Get Songbird

Songbird is committed to playing the music you want, from the sites you want, on the devices you want, challenging the conventions of discovery, purchase, consumption and organization of music on the Internet.

Songbird is a player and a platform.

Like Firefox, Songbird is an open source, Open Web project built on the Mozilla platform. Songbird provides a public playground for Web media mash-ups by providing developers with both desktop and Web APIs, developer resources and fostering Open Web media standards, to wit, an Open Media Web.

You can download Songbird @ http://www.songbirdnest.com
Shareaholic @ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5457

A big thank you to Stephen Lau, the Developer Advocate at Songbird! He was always there to answer questions, and made the entire process dead simple.

Shareaholic in Songbird:
Songbird #2

The “thank you” package full of goodies from the SB team. Thanks guys!:
Songbird #1


Jay MeattleTwitThis.com is down

by Jay Meattle at 11pm, April 9th, 2008 | 2 Comments »

…and hence “Post to Twitter” from Shareaholic is currently not working.. If you are aware of an alternative to TwitThis.com, please let us know!

update (22-April-08): TwitThis.com appears to be back online, which means “Post to Twitter” in Shareaholic is functional again!


Jay MeattleShareaholic updated for Firefox 3 beta 5

by Jay Meattle at 10pm, April 8th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Beta 5, the last Firefox 3 beta, has shipped. There are an estimated 1.2mil users running Firefox 3 betas. This Shareaholic update is for you early adopters! — Shareaholic now fully supports FF3B5. Get it here.

Firefox 3 b5


Jay MeattleJoin Shareaholic on Facebook!

by Jay Meattle at 12am, February 25th, 2008 | Comment »

Find Shareaholic on Facebook

Fan of Shareaholic? Join the Shareaholic page on Facebook!

Jay MeattleShareaholic Wins Grand Prize in Mozilla.org’s Firefox Contest!

by Jay Meattle at 12am, February 19th, 2008 | Comment »

Mozilla Firefox Labs Hearts Shareaholic

What do Garrett Camp (founder, StumbleUpon), Brendan Eich (CTO, Mozilla and creator of JavaScript), Jesse James Garrett (president, Adaptive Path), Tariq Karim (founder, NetVibes), and Joshua Schachter (founder, del.icio.us) have in common?

They were all part of the tech celebrity judge panel that picked Shareaholic as a Grand Prize winner of Extend Firefox 2, a Mozilla sponsored contest for the best Firefox extensions!

Grand Prize Winner!The winners were announced last week. Three Firefox extensions, including Shareaholic (!!), were named Grand Prize winners after being selected from a list of more than 100 submissions.

About Extend Firefox 2:

Extend Firefox is a developer contest to encourage development and innovation in Web experience through add-ons to Firefox 2.

All entries were judged and scored by a panel of experts based upon excellence in: (a) User Experience (30%); (b) Creativity (30%); (c) Platform Leverage (15%); (d) Technical Correctness (15%); (e) Open Source and Use of Standards (10%).

Check out Mozilla’s official announcement and rest of the winners and runners up here.

The grand prizes are awesome, but we are very much more excited about how many more people will now find out about Shareaholic as a result of winning the contest, and the resulting momentum. If you don’t already have Shareaholic, you can get it here.

A big thank YOU for supporting, using, and believing in Shareaholic. Much more to come :)

Read what others have to say: ReadWriteWeb, Mashable, Mozilla Links, Wikinomics

Jay MeattleSuper excited about SxSW Interactive 2008

by Jay Meattle at 2pm, February 18th, 2008 | Comment »

SxSW Interactive 2008

March 7-11, 2008
SXSW Interactive
Austin, Texas

The SXSW Interactive Festival features five days of exciting panel content and amazing parties. Attracting digital creatives as well as visionary technology entrepreneurs, the event celebrates the best minds and the brightest personalities of emerging technology. Whether you are a hard-core geek, a dedicated content creator, a new media entrepreneur, or just someone who likes being around an extremely creative community, SXSW Interactive is for you!

It’s going to be my first time attending. It sounds like A LOT of fun, can’t wait! Ping/tweet/email me if you’re going, would love to connect and catch up :)

David will also be in the Austin area the weekend following SxSW Interactive.