The ShareThis team explains some of the key new features of the new service. Here are some of the highlights:
- Sign-in with Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo and more -- You can sign in with your existing identities and curate what you are sharing across your networks
- Sharing Buttons with a Counter -- ShareThis publishers can now have a new ShareThis button that not only includes the ability to share across or to different networks, but will show how many times something has been shared
- New Related Content-Sharing Widget -- You can put an updated and "related posts" widget onto your sites
- Real-time ShareThis Stream -- You can watch what is being shared across the ShareThis network in real time, along with trending topics, a la Twitter
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This is actually a pretty innovative way to address the real-time nature of sharing links and information. And while on the surface it might not seem that dissimilar to Google Buzz or the built-in options for networks like Facebook and Twitter, what makes this different is that it aggregates data from across all of the different platforms. So you can see and search what people are sharing to Google Reader and Facebook and Twitter.
That's the beauty of multi-sharing tools like ShareThis -- it makes it easy for people to share content on their networks of choice. Adding a real-time streaming option is a real boon for both ShareThis publishers -- who can now see what's popular and also track what's getting shared from their sites -- and for users, because they can now see what's getting shared around and what related posts or information people might also be sharing.