I Share, Therefore I Am (Online)
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on February 01, 2007,
I use dozens of Internet-based services daily. What about you? I'm sure you use email, instant messengers, various social networks, blogs, etc. All of these advanced services are usually terribly disconnected. But developers of the new Share2me application decided to do a good deed and bridge the gaps between them.
To start using Share2me you will need to download a Firefox extension to add a Share2me button to your browser's navigation bar. After that you will create a contact list that will combine all your contacts from your IM and email accounts. Currently available are MySpace, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, AIM, AOL, MSN Hotmail.
Suppose you find a great song, photo, e-book or application when surfing the web. Your first desire is to share this awesome thing with your friends - and that will become really simple tomorrow when Share2me launches: you click the Share2me button, start typing in the names of your friends to use your address book (auto fill, by the way - I am sure sometimes such small things make applications actually user-friendly) and share the link with the contacts you choose. Besides, the shared content can also be shown on your MySpace profile.
Share2Me extension to be launched tomorrow only works with Firefox 1.5 or greater. But still though Firefox is supposed to be Web 2.0 browser, I think they will need to add support of Internet Explorer if they want to reach a broader audience.
There are two more things that do not work as I thought they would (judging by the description). First: I expected a larger number of IMs and email services integrated - but I'm sure that's only a matter of time. But second is more important to me: some of my contacts are present both on my Gmail, AIM and Yahoo! Mail contact lists and I expected deeper integration; for example, the system could detect by a contact's real name that several listings belong to the same person - the way it is now it all seems like a huge and somewhat too complicated address book. But the idea is good enough to wait for updates from the very beginning. By the way, now that you are reading it you can sign to their launch notification here - to start using it tomorrow.
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Share2me, a site-independent “send to a friend” product…
What have I been working on all of January that I haven’t been able to talk about? I’ve been busy working on Nextumi’s flagship product, Share2me, which they are unveiling at this year’s DEMO 2007. I still can’t go……
Svetlana, great post and your right on it. I appreciate you trying us out! We already have the IE version in the works have been testing it as a bookmarklet. We still have some more testing to do but you and your blog readers are welcome to try out the bookmarklet at share2me.com/share. Also, during the next month, we will be indeed be integrating more services and adding other features that we think will fit your expectations for a great service. – Mike Blackwell of Share2Me
Mike, thank you for your comment, it was actually a pleasure to test Share2me. It’s great great you are already testing the bookmarklet for IE, I will definitely give it a try myself. We’ll be looking forward to see the new features - we will be happy to cover them on Profy.