Share2me - Social sharing done easier
By Vivek | January 31st, 2007 at 11:52 pm ET
Share2me launching at DEMO wants to make it way easier and fun to share information on web. Share2me idea is pretty straight forward. Import contacts into your Share2me account from your address books located on Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, Outlook…., install Share2me IE/Firefox button, and you are ready to share the web with your contacts.
For any webpage you share through Share2me, your friends on the other end receive an email or IM with the URL of the webpage you sent or in case you sent Youtube video, link to the Share2me site where they can view the video. Share2me also works with social networks and currently you can post information directly to your MySpace profile. All the information you send gets added to your Share2me account so that you can reference it at anytime.
Kaboodle, Google Toolbar, and plain email are just some of the other options you have, but none them are a comprehensive enough solution to be suggested for full-time use. Consider the case of Send-to-Gmail context menu button that you get as part of the toolbar install - You can’t send emails using your Google Apps account. Only Gmail account will work. In case of Kaboodle, they want to get you to their site. Personally I don’t want to add another site to my daily list.
What I would like to see is the ability to select multiple images from a webpage without text and send them over IM networks that enable file transfers like GTalk/YahooIM. Also it would prove to be much more useful to the ability to annotate around selected text/images/videos instead of sending just the webpage.
With an initial round of funding from Blue Chip Venture Company and Illinois Ventures, Nextumi(parent company of Share2me) is looking to target more towards the MySpace and Facebook crowd. As part of future plans Share2me is developing mobile based sharing application and expanding its social networking site coverage. Personally I would still like to see a clearer picture of the application pack lineage towards the target market.
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on February 8th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
Vivek, thanks for the review. We agree that people already have too many sites on their daily lists, which is one of the reasons we made sure Share2Me didn%u2019t require registration by the recipient. We wanted sharing free from constraints, easy, and convenient as possible. To help achieve that goal, we will be integrating more IM services and adding other features, such as an IE and Safari bookmarklet during the next month. We still have some more testing to do but you and your blog readers are welcome to try out the bookmarklet that will work with IE at share2me.com/share. We%u2019ll keep you posted. %u2013Mike Blackwell of Share2Me