ShareThis
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The ShareThis button is an all-in-one widget that lets people share any content on the Web with friends via e-mail, AIM, or text message. The widget can also keep an account of personal contacts so that users can send an e-mail, IM, or text message with favorite links to friends. The button can be deployed on any site to drive traffic, stimulate viral activity, and track the sharing of content. Toolbar versions exist for Firefox, Mozilla Application Suite and Internet Explorer, and customized widgets are available for leading blog publisher sites including Blogger, TypePad and WordPress.
, engineering professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
, and Tim Schigel, then a Director at Blue Chip Venture Company (“Blue Chip”). ShareThis owns an exclusive license, with the University of Illinois, for Dr. Goldberg’s patent applications in the area of genetic algorithms and machine learning for the purposes of information discovery and learning from sharing behavior. ShareThis has headquarters in San Francisco, CA and Cincinnati, OH. Investors include IllinoisVENTURES and DFJ Mercury.
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ShareThis was founded by Dr. David E. GoldbergDavid E. Goldberg
David Edward Goldberg is an American computer scientist, and professor at the department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is most noted for his seminal works in the field of genetic algorithms...
, engineering professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...
, and Tim Schigel, then a Director at Blue Chip Venture Company (“Blue Chip”). ShareThis owns an exclusive license, with the University of Illinois, for Dr. Goldberg’s patent applications in the area of genetic algorithms and machine learning for the purposes of information discovery and learning from sharing behavior. ShareThis has headquarters in San Francisco, CA and Cincinnati, OH. Investors include IllinoisVENTURES and DFJ Mercury.