Happy Holidays from Shareaholic!As this year comes to a close, all of us wanted to take a moment to share our gratitude and thank you for being part of Shareaholic. We can’t tell you how much we appreciate all your support. We are very excited for 2010!
Happy Holidays!
Warmly,
Your Shareaholic Team
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Announcing: Shareaholic for Firefox v1.9 featuring the Shareaholic Buzz Monitor
Today we’re pleased to announce the release of the latest version of Shareaholic for Firefox – v1.9!
You can get the latest version of Shareaholic here, or if you already have Shareaholic installed, simply wait for Firefox to automatically notify you of the update.
You’ve been asking us for quite some time to do more on the content discovery end of the equation. The release of the Shareaholic Buzz Monitor marks our first real experiment in this area. This feature is powered by our own proprietary data-set, and those from our friends at OneRiot, and Twitter.
Shareaholic users can now easily discover and stay on top of the latest trending topics as they emerge on the realtime web. In order to share, users need to discover something worth talking about, which is why we think the addition of the Shareaholic Buzz Monitor is a natural extension of the user experience. Now Shareaholic users will have immediate access to the most chatted about content on the social web – the stuff that’s worth sharing, right now!
Do let us know what you think, and how we can improve. We continue to improve Shareaholic based on your valuable feedback.
Today, we’re also pleased to announce a formal partnership with our friends at OneRiot. Shareaholic makes sharing fast and easy, helping drive the growth of the realtime web, while OneRiot organizes the realtime web and helps users find the most socially relevant content on the web. In short, a partnership between us made a lot of sense. I’m looking forward to what more we come up with in the future.
Su.pr – StumbleUpon’s new url shortening service
Mozillaca – microblog service for the Mozilla community 
Hub.tm – url shortener by inbound marketing company HubSpot
Followup.cc – an email based reminder service
TBUZZ – a nifty Twitter link submission toolnote: if you use the NoScript for Firefox Add-on, please make sure you read this and update your white list.
Bzzster growing up – gets an “About Us” pageA couple of days ago, David and I decided that it was time to put up an about us page for Bzzster.
Though not everyone wants to know more about us, and it is probably the last page that most people will visit, we don’t want to disappoint those who do want to know more about the people, idea and values behind Bzzster and Shareaholic.
About Bzzster: http://bzzster.com/about
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Bzzster’s goal is to be the best way to recommend videos, news stories, blog posts, etc to friends and colleagues – open, easy, opt-in, customizable, and all leading to one thing – a tool to extend conversations.
David Cancel [blog]
David is the co-founder & CTO of Lookery. Before starting Lookery he co-founded Compete.com where he was the CTO from 2000-2007. David oversaw Compete’s overall technology strategy, including the design of its patent-pending architecture. Before Compete he was the CTO of BuyerZone.com, now a part of Reed Elsevier [NYSE: RUK]. In the late 90’s he was a part of the founding team of Bolt.com & part of Lycos.com.
In addition to Lookery, David is on the board of directors of Geezeo.com, and the advisory boards of Compete.com, Visible Measures, MyPerfectGig, Sonian Networks and Swift. David is originally from New York City and now lives in the Boston, MA area with his superstar wife and daughter. He loves making something from nothing.
Jay Meattle [blog]
Jay is the Product Manager of Compete.com. He manages the overall development and growth of Compete.com, a rapidly growing and award winning competitive web intelligence service. Before managing Compete.com, Jay was part of Compete’s client services group where he worked with companies such as Bank of America, Lycos, and Yahoo!, helping them better understand and leverage online consumer behavior. In 2000, he founded HEPGURU ventures, a company focused on building IT-enabled services in the consumer internet and media & marketing verticals.
Jay received a B.S. cum laude in Computer Science from Tufts University. He minored in Entrepreneurial Leadership and Multimedia Arts. At Tufts he was awarded the MacJannet scholarship. Jay now lives in Cambridge, MA and hopes to spend more time in India. He loves creating, and lives for technology and innovation.
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