Watch: Shareaholic at MIX09, Las Vegas (IE8 keynote)
by Jay Meattle at 11am, March 24th, 2009 / 
E-mail this post »Last week I attended the MIX09 conference in Las Vegas. At the conference, Microsoft announced the release of its next major web browser – Internet Explorer 8.
It was a lot of fun attending MIX09 (thank you Tobias and Robert!), the Add-on-Con CodeFest (hosted by IE8 and OneRiot), and most of all meeting all the people behind Internet Explorer 8.
With the assistance of the IE8 team at the Add-on-Con CodeFest, I was able to complete an Accelerator for IE8 that lets anyone share information with other services such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Delicious, and a variety of other services within the IE8 browser — very similar to Shareaholic for Firefox. It can be downloaded here.
The highlight of the event for me was the inclusion of Shareaholic in the IE8 release keynote by Dean Hachamovitch, the GM of Internet Explorer. It was certainly a privilege, and I enjoyed every minute of it!
I stitched together this short 02:53 video from the main keynote recording. Hope you like it!
Full keynote video can be viewed here.
It didn’t take long to go from nothing to keynote ready. IE8 is a step in the right direction in making it easier for developers wanting to extend Internet Explorer easily — however I do already have a wish list for the IE8 team :)
A big thank you for your support, for without which none of this would be possible. Lots more coming very soon – stay tuned! Also, please keep those suggestions coming, we’re listening.
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March 24th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Nice one Jay :) Great to have worked with you on this!
March 24th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Way to go!
March 24th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
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April 5th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
Please enable localization for your addon and upload it to BabelZilla. It will surely a good way to help spread your addon :)
April 14th, 2009 at 2:06 am
I like your style.
April 25th, 2009 at 4:12 am
Nice post Jay meattle, Its really very helpful, The video is pretty good.