I’m very pleased today to announce the release of Capsule, the developer’s code journal. Capsule replaces the scratch document you have…
How to best provide support for the software you create is an interesting point of deliberation. I’ve gone through various stages and…
It was 6 years ago that I first floated the idea of a generic icon for sharing1 – I’m thrilled and amazing at how well this little icon has done. It’s great to see ShareThis going strong as well. Above are a few screenshots I’ve captured over the years of the share icon in action.…
Awesome to see Google using the Share Icon in the Android Market app.
As many of you probably already seen, there is a new ShareThis widget lurking behind the share icon. There are a bunch of great changes you’ll notice: More compact and less obtrusive in the page. More responsive JavaScript performance. An improved Address Book and slick auto-complete behavior. No more tabs – the better for people…
There’s a brand new site up at ShareIcons.com! The new site really does a great job highlighting the icon as a resource for everyone to use (including the original Open Source licenses), and the download includes source files in vector format.
The ShareThis team has posted a set of Share Icon Guidelines as an RFC. I’ve watched this go through a few different revisions and provided my input along the way. I think the guidelines are excellent1, they keep the icon free for everyone while helping define how it should be used, so that its meaning…
As many folks (thanks all) have written in to tell me, yesterday Google launched a social bookmarking/sharing service that uses the Share Icon. This is excellent. The Share Icon has been showing up in all sorts of places – it is, as hoped, becoming the standard icon used to represent sharing on the web. As…
Over the last few weeks, I’ve engaged in an e-mail interview with Thord Daniel Hedengren of Bloggertalks. That interview has been posted on Bloggertalks. Thord asked some good questions, I hope my responses are interesting.
I’ve updated my Share This plugin to version 1.4. This includes a number of minor changes since the last release: New method of including Prototype for WP 2.0.x users (can be used by other plugins as well) to avoid including Prototype twice, if possible. This technique is also used in my new WP Grins release.…
I’m getting e-mails (and comments) from people asking where they can get a copy of Share This (my social web/e-mail plugin for WordPress) for: Moveable Type (and TypePad) Drupal Blogger LiveJournal Firefox Extension Safari Extension Greasemonkey scripts for inclusion in web-based apps like Bloglines, Google Reader, etc. Add more in the comments… I haven’t built…
It looks like my Share This plugin is catching on with WordPress users. On Dec 12th, there weren’t any pages that showed up on a search for “powered by share this”1, now there are nearly 200,000240,000. That’s a pretty good initial adoption of Share This. I think it might be time for step 2. Which…
I’ve released version 1.3 of my Share This plugin for WordPress. This version has two main changes: Support for a Share This link in feeds via a custom page that presents the Share This information along with the post content. This also works for mobile visitors and visitors that have JavaScript disabled in their browser.…
I’ve created a web site for the Share Icon project: shareicons.com. I’ve released the icon concept under four licenses (quad-licensed): GPL LGPL BSD Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Right now I’ve got my initial icon concept up there since that is the one that got the most support here. This isn’t to say that this design…
I added little comment icons and put in the share icon for my Share This links. I had icons on links like this in my previous design and was kind of glad to be rid of them in the new design. However, I think these work OK.
Bob had some good ideas from my previous concept, and I’ve come up with a second concept for a Share This icon based on one of them: Here they are in context with the Feed and OPML icons: Concept #1 Concept #2 Concept #2a Comments are open.
As previously discussed, I think it would be a good idea to come up with a generic “social bookmarking”/”sharing” icon for use with things like my Share This plugin. I’ve come up with a rough concept icon: It’s in the same vein as the feed icon as Chris discussed. The connected dots represent information/data/ideas passing…
