In 2006 I began working to create a generic 
sharing 
icon that would be suitable for actions related to social bookmarking, memetrackers, etc. like the Share This plugin for WordPress.
This is the final design, shown alongside its peer icons for Feeds and OPML respectively.
The Share Icon is now owned by ShareThis and is available under the same open source licenses I originally released it under. Visit the Share Icon Project web site.
Here are blog posts on the topic:
- Does Share This Need an Icon?
- “Share This” Icon Concept #1
- “Share This” Icon Concept #2
- RSS, OPML, Tag, Bookmark Icons
And more on del.icio.us and Flickr.
I like it, but… how can it be a standard icon for sharing???
Is there an organization to do that or it becomes a standard when people start using it a lot?
I think it becomes standard once enough people adopt it. I’ll be implementing this on my site within the next few weeks. It looks MUCH better than the icon buffet currently displayed at the bottom of many people’s blog posts.
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Love the icon, added it on my blog (Dutch language alert).
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This is pretty cool – i’m gonna look into it as a replacement for sociable
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Can you release a vector version of your logo?
Try clicking the big Download button.
Hehe… on a side note, that button camouflages under your layout 😉
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lovely!… can this also be used on blogger?…
thank you.
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What about personal sites?, not blogs, I mean.
Inspired by the incredibly popular “Share This†wordpress plug-in — The Shareaholic extension for Firefox makes it easy for you to submit the web page you’re viewing to digg, del.icio.us, facebook, google bookmarks, reddit and stumbleupon. If you prefer, you can also e-mail the web page to a friend.
Check it out at http://shareaholic.com !
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I am new to blogging however I recognise this symbol already… which constitutes a ‘generic icon’ to me.
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can I use this with blogspot?
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Nice icon! I’ll be using this on my own website. I’ve been looking for a “share” icon and was playing around with hands, but it just didn’t look right, especially for a 16×16 icon. This scales down quite nicely.
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Found this site through StumbleUpon. Excellent icon. I am already seeing its widespread adoption on the net.
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Just an FYI, but the download link to the icon returns a 404. 🙁
Yeah, I’m getting a 404, too. I’d like to use this plug-in!
Sorry about that, the download is fixed again.
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I had downloaded ShareThis before and had attached it to my blogs but for some reason I removed it, maybe it is time to re-explore this as things are looking quite jazzy
Thanks
Hi –
Rather than invent , I was casting about for a ‘sharing’ icon and found yours. I want to modify it, is that possible? and use it in a context like this:
http://bcmastergarde[...]-eat-it.html so that It somehow becomes a vegetable/produce theme and the slogan would be
Grow It Share It .
Thanks in advance for your response.
You can do whatever you like that is allowed by the licenses.
Thank you for neat little share icon much appreciated 🙂
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