Easiest Way to Share, Email, Tweet and Bookmark Stuff

Social networking can keep us jumping from one popular site to the next, sharing information and media as we go along. With the increasing number of websites people use to communicate with each other, keeping track of the sites individually might become difficult. Say you have an account on Delicious, Friendfeed and Twitter; you have found something that you want to share on all three accounts; normally, you would have to log in to each site separately and do the deed. But the Firefox add-on that we shall cover today can make sharing on multiple social networking websites considerably easier.

ShareaHolic is Firefox add-on that includes shortcuts to all major social networking websites; it tries to make it easier for the user to bookmark a page, and then blog about it, email it, or share it with other people.

After it has been added on to Firefox, here is how the add-on looks like:

We need a webpage to use as an example of something we want to share; let us use the homepage of Yahoo. After reaching Yahoo’s homepage, if the user clicks on any one of the green icons in Firefox’s bar, a drop down menus shows the popularity of that page. Here is how the drop menu looked liked in the case of Yahoo:

As you can see, the menu immediately tells the user that the page has been saved 593 times on Delicious, and has been ‘dugg’ twice on Digg. These statistics are a quick way to find out how popular a certain page is.

Now let us say that I want to share Yahoo’s homepage on my Facebook account: all I do is select Facebook from ShareaHolic’s drop down menu, and a small straightforward window appears in which I can publish the link to my profile like so:

Therefore, I do not have to open a separate tab, access my wall and paste Yahoo’s link there; I can quickly access my Facebook page via ShareaHolic and immediately start sharing. ShareaHolic can also be accessed by right clicking anywhere on the webpage:

ShareaHolic’s options can be accessed to check which websites are shown in its menu and which are hidden. Apart from social networking websites, ShareaHolic also has links to various blogging services, email services, link shortening, online shopping stores, and four miscellaneous links.

For sharing web content on popular social networking sites, ShareaHolic includes over 40 links

Furthermore, you can directly post anything you like on your personal WordPress blog or third party host providers including Blogger(also known as Blogspot) and LiveJournal. Links for these are also included in ShareaHolic

In addition to that if there is something you like and would like to email it to yourself you can do that by checking your Email Service provider. ShareaHoliclinks include the most commonly used email providers including Google Gmail and Hotmail;

After the launch of Twitter there is one noticeable boost in URL shortening websites. Because Twitter does not allow users to write more than 140 characters people shrink their online links using services such as TinyUrl. Shortcuts to these shortening websites are also included in ShareaHolic:

Only two shopping website links are included. But they are still worth checking out. The final tab in ShareaHolic will show you links to other unclassifiable popular websites

ShareaHolic supports over sixty services they are completely customizable i.e. you get to choose the ones you see.

ShareaHolic is the fastest and most convenient way publish/share webpages to your blog or social networking page.