Launched in September 2006, AddThis is the #1 bookmarking and sharing button on the Internet. AddThis has become the standard button for bookmarking and sharing. The AddThis button spreads your content across the Web by making it easier for your visitors to bookmark and share it with other people, again… and again… and again. This simple yet powerful button is very easy to install and provides valuable Analytics about the bookmarking and sharing activity of your users. AddThis helps your visitors create a buzz for your site and increase …

ShareThis provides a widget for easily sharing content found online with others through social networks, social news sites, and other online services. Users can also email content to friends with the widget.
The first version of the widget was launched in November 2007. The latest was launched in March 2008 and features tracking and usage reports for web publishers.

Clearspring Technologies is a privately held Web 2.0 software company that offers a web widget platform. Clearspring’s viral distribution product enables web widgets to be shared and distributed across blogging, social networking sites, and personal Web sites. Clearspring’s product offering also includes two approaches toward advertising with widgets: widgets that are served as ad content through an ad server, and an ad network that provides advertisers the ability to serve advertisements within a widget or across multiple widgets. Clearspring’s analytics suite enables the tracking and analysis of widgets on its …

Open Web Awards is the only multilingual international online voting competition that covers major innovations in web technology. Through an online nominating and voting process, the Open Web Awards recognizes and honors the top achievements in 26 categories. This year, we’re partnering with over 100 blog partners, Poll Daddy for extra security and ease of voting and extending the nominations period and voting rounds for greater participation.

Netlog is an online platform where users can keep in touch with and extend their social network. It is an online social portal, specifically targeted at the European youth. It is developed by Netlog NV, based in Ghent, Belgium. Netlog is currently available in 20 languages and has more than 35 million members throughout Europe, and this number increases every day.
On Netlog, you can create your own web page with a blog, pictures, videos, events and much more to share with your friends. It is thus the ultimate tool …

Open Web Awards is the only multilingual international online voting competition that covers major innovations in web technology. Through an online nominating and voting process, the Open Web Awards recognizes and honors the top achievements in 26 categories. This year, we’re partnering with over 100 blog partners, Poll Daddy for extra security and ease of voting and extending the nominations period and voting rounds for greater participation.
The first Open Web Awards achieved over 250,000 votes combined between Mashable and our 50 international blog partners. Winners included Facebook, Digg, Google, Meetup, …

The online world has changed dramatically even since we last drew up a list of 100 useful sites in December 2006. In the interim, there has been a revival of the browser wars – with Google’s Chrome and Apple’s Safari making surprising inroads into the Windows monopoly, and offering a new vision of what browsing can be like.
Many of the sites listed here were not available when we did our last list; although longevity is a mark of pride online, it is difficult for companies set up in the 1990s …

One of the companies adopting Facebook‘s new log-in system, Facebook Connect, is CBS, parent company of CNET and publisher of Webware. I’m glad we’re on board with this program, even if I do feel it’s a bit of Faustian deal. Here’s why.
First of all, CNET’s own log-in system (which you see when you want to leave a comment on a CNET blog post, write a user review, or participate in other CNET community features) is not universally loved inside CNET. There are factions here at the company who want it …

Power.com is an ambitious social utility that brings together all the networks you have on social networks such as Facebook, MySpace, and Orkut, as well on instant-messaging networks like AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, and MSN Messenger.
If you have have a presence on more than one network, it’s worth a look, though it has its own interface that awkwardly sits on top of your existing services when you use it.
The biggest draw of Power is that it really does bring everyone in your networks together for you. On the Power …