Open Share Icon Project
I don’t know if you saw this or not, of course since I’m writing to myself these days probably not, but I do a lot of WordPressW stuff and looking for a decent WordPress plugin for Social tagging and bookmarking for this site, I found the Open Share Icon Project.
The Open Share Icon Project | Google Groups
The Open Share Icon Project Public Group
Mission: Designing, Implementing and Evangelizing the Open Share Icon Project – a free, open, community driven alternative
The Open Share Icon Project is inspired by Alex King’s Share Icon — which is now wholly owned and trademarked by ShareThis.com/Nextumi Inc
hand (as in “pass it on” or “sharing”), and at the same time works as an “eye” reference (as in “look at this”).
I think it looks pretty damned good and I like the idea. One of these days I’m going to get around to redoing this site to include the icon. In the meantime check out this chart that they did against ShareThis.
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The Open Share Icon Project | Google Groups
The Open Share Icon Project | Google Groups.
The Open Share Icon Project
“Designing, Implementing and Evangelizing the Open Share Icon Project – a free, open, community driven alternative”
The Open Share Icon Project | Google Groups
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Standardizing Icons for the Web | Wisdump
Thus, the Open Share Icon Project was formed to address such limitations. The open share icon shows a hand passing an object to another hand. It also looks like an eye. This is much more descriptive than the share icon, …
June 8th, 2009 at 12:41 am
There are plenty of social plugins for WP.
The one I use is called Sociable.
I never heard of Open Share Icon, but might give it a try.
Thanks for this info.
Tony
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August 27th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
I’m actually using Sociable here on the site. It’s right under the “I Don’t Come to Your Site Without Bookmarking You…Bookmark this Post!”
I think that the purpose of the Open Share Icon is to get us out from the diabolical hand of ShareThis and their plans to dominate the world with their collection of user stats.