There are lots of ways of sharing a hypertext link or a thought on the web, but none of them work the way they should. The current morass of sharing systems include: sharethis, the facebook bookmarklet, the friendfeed bookmarklet, the twitthis bookmarklet, the reddit bookmarklet, the google reader share button, share with notes button, and bookmarklet, delicious (good luck inserting the periods), sociable, and a few hundred dozen others I am probably forgetting (sorry).
Although some of these systems are more elegant than others, they all suffer the same flaw. All of these methods of sharing either assume (a) you want to share the link on just one website community (facebook, friendfeed, twitthis, reddit) or (b) you want to share the link on more than one website community by using multiple clicks, logons, etc. (sharethis, sociable).
The truth is, most of the time I want to share something, I want to share it across all of the communities I belong to with one click. I often want my input to go everywhere, perhaps with some customization. The communities on the other side can decide what’s important to them (using the friendfeed hide function, the reddit vote down function, etc.). Yet there is no tool that lets you easily share a link, thought or idea across all of the different websites out there with one (or a minimal number) of clicks.
C’mon Internet, hurry up and fix this. Like you did last time: my request and the response.
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