Using AddThis with Flash
As I have posted recently, my (former) sharing service of choice was ShareThis. No really good reason for that choice actually, just came by their service first, and it worked like a charm. But now it doesn’t anymore (update: well it does again, but there were problems), so I looked around for alternatives.
The largest such (might even be larger than ShareThis) is AddThis. Their API is incredibly simple, as you can actually share anything by giving a simply link to their site with url and title of what to share.
The simplest way to share via AddThis is by opening a link like this:
Integrating this into an example like my previous for ShareThis is then of course very simple as well – encode URL and title, append to URL of AddThis bookmarking page and open this page in a popup of the proper size (found by experiment). See example here.
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Category: API, Flash Platform, JavaScript, Mashup 5 comments »
July 15th, 2009 at 13:52
I just wanted to say thanks for posting this example and the ShareThis example, it has been a real help!
July 28th, 2009 at 12:15
Hej, – kan du sige mig hvordan man kan bestemme hvilke services der skal være i popuppen når man bruger addthis på denne måde?
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Kasper
August 8th, 2009 at 13:47
Hi Kasper,
I’m afraid that you cannot customize the services available in the pop-up – at least I cannot figure out a way to do it. The only thing I can figure out is to insert a logo (by adding a logo-parameter to the query string with the path to an image) or by displaying a larger list (by removing the v-parameter, which might be some version number).
There might be a way, but in that case it is not publicly disclosed :)
You might need to try the ShareThis option as mentioned in my other post: http://www.barklund.org/blog/2009/05/06/using-sharethis-with-flash/
August 10th, 2009 at 09:09
Morten, thanx :)
June 28th, 2010 at 19:41
Thanks for posting this, but is there’s any way we can customize bookmarks?
There are lot of bookmarks now.