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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I’m pleased to announce the release of the Shareaholic Accelerator for Internet Explorer 8 here at MIX 09 in Las Vegas!

Similar to our Firefox add-on, Shareaholic Accelerator for IE8 enables you to quickly, and very easily share, bookmark, and e-mail web pages via a wide array of your favorite web 2.0 social networking, bookmarking, blogging, and e-mail services from Internet Explorer 8.

To install Shareaholic for IE8, simply visit this page using Internet Explorer 8, click on the orange “Get Shareaholic for IE8″ button. Enjoy!

UPDATE: Shareaholic Accelerator is now also available at the official IE8 Addons Directory!

Happy day! We’re pleased announce the arrival of Shareaholic limited-edition laptop stickers! YESSSS! I’ve always wanted these.

If you’d like one or more, and are going to be at SxSWi in Austin, TX later this month, please ping us on twitter, in the comments below, or via email, and we’ll make sure to get one to you in person, hand delivered.

Else, send us a self-addressed stamped envelope to our mailing address and the sticker is yours. It’s that easy. We ship anywhere as long as the postage is correct.

Jay Meattle
c/o I Want A Shareaholic Sticker!
32 River Street #2
Cambridge, MA 02139
USA

Thank you for continuing to use and support Shareaholic!

ps. we’d love it if you posted your sticker pictures on flickr! tag: #shareaholicstickers

Mozilla just gave the official add-ons website (AMO) a major upgrade! One can now customize Firefox by downloading and installing pre-packaged collections of easy to use add-ons with just one click using an install wizard. So so much easier. I really like this.

Tom Merritt at CNET was on the money when he said:

“The Firefox browser is excellent… but it is the add-ons that makes it legendary.”

By prepackaging add-ons into easy to download collections, Mozilla has just made add-ons more easily discoverable and more approachable to the less “tech-savvy”, more mainstream Firefox user, and of course potential users.

I do think that a thriving Mozilla add-ons ecosystem is Firefox’s strategic advantage in the recently re-ignited browser wars. As such, I expect Mozilla to keep pushing and doing a lot more around add-ons to keep the momentum going, and I can’t wait to see what’s next!

You can find Shareaholic in the Social Butterfly add-on collection. Also make sure you check out all the other cool add-on collections while you’re at it!