The “Year of Mobile” has been upon the industry for some time now. Despite this, it seems that consumers still haven’t integrated mobile into their lives at the expected pace. However, the Q2 2014 Consumer Sharing Trends Report which we released today provides evidence that we haven’t been crying wolf; mobile stock is finally soaring. The rate at which consumers have adapted to mobile and social has been astonishing, and our report takes a look at the devices, channels, topics and demographics driving the mobile sharing revolution. We offer actionable insights to help marketers and publishers engage their audiences who are sharing on the go. (more…)
New ShareThis Multi Post widget updates coming today. As you recall, last year we updated our website and our logo. Well, the updates are still coming. This subtle change will give your social tools a more modern look and improved user interaction. And don’t worry, the widget still functions the same way so your users Read more…
The technology has almost written off MySQL as a database for new fancy NoSQL databases like MongoDB and Cassandra or even Hadoop for aggregation. But MySQL has a lot to offer in terms of ‘ACID’ity, performance and simplicity. For many use-cases MySQL works well. In this week’s ShareThis workshop we discuss different tips & techniques Read more…
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Promising reliability and availability of services to a large production environment requires large scale automation. Automation includes deploying packages reliably, restarting services, health checking services for failovers etc. Any production environment can be vaguely defined as heterogenous clusters, each running homogeneous apps within. A well organized organization will have one of the clusters as an Read more…
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For this month’s edition of Shared Conversations, we’re shifting our focus to spotlight the technology side of the business. We spoke with Balaji Gopinath, VP Emerging Technology at Turner Broadcasting, to delve into how technology is affecting the evolution of media. Read on to learn more about Balaji’s exciting work with Media Camp, the first Read more…
We are seeing tremendous growth in direct peer-to-peer social sharing spurred by the popularity of WhatsApp and similar platforms. With the momentum behind mobile, texting and sharing, we understand what publishers need to make these platforms work for them. Today we’re thrilled to announce that ShareThis has partnered with AT&T to create the AT&T Text Read more…
A new report from ShareThis contends that the growth of recent mobile activity affirms previous forecasts that 2014 would be the “Year of Mobile.”
We tend to talk about social networks in terms of their size, because audience reach is one of social media’s biggest advantages.
Pinterest continues to boost its e-commerce services in order to help brands further engage with consumers. Shortly after it designed a new Follow button for brands, the platform has unveiled another new feature to make brands’ pins more discoverable.
