The AddThis Toolbar has now been downloaded one million times. Thanks so much for sharing. Read this article and then download it and try it. You will like it I am sure.
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AddThis Toolbar - Thanks a Million
Thursday, January 21st, 2010A Lot to be Grateful for - A Lot to Mourn and Miss
Thursday, December 24th, 2009It is the heart of the holiday season, the festive week of Christmas to New Year’s. It is time to reflect and be grateful for what we have and not miss what we don’t have.
Last year this time we all were feeling doom and gloom. The market was down. There were no loans to be had. People were losing jobs left and right and the aura and psychology of the market and the overall economy was really bad.
As we close on 2009, I must confess that the year was one of goodness and counter intuitive wins mixed with sadness.
I am most grateful for the health of my family and friends.
And the Washington Capitals had a magnificent twelve months on the ice and off the ice. We had a really great record. We finished last year strong and won our first playoff series in 10 years and we are now well positioned for this next year. We also sell out all of our games. We have a backlog of people awaiting season tickets. We were able to raise our prices and we have very happy customer satisfaction levels. Who would have thought we could be that successful in this economy? I am very grateful to you all.
The Washington Mystics also grew quite fast and became one of the best performing teams in the WNBA and turned their on court performance around as well as we qualified for the playoffs.
Revolution Money grew fast; built out its platform; and - as was reported in November - was acquired by American Express at a healthy return to investors. We await final approval by the government but I believe this deal will close sometime in Q1 of 2010. This was the third largest acquisition of a new media payments platform ever behind PayPal and Bill Me Later (both by eBay) so it was a big win for us all and I am very excited about helping the American Express Company in the future as we roll out this platform into a new series of great consumer beneficial products and services.
Proud
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009AddThis is now a Top 5 add-on to the Firefox browser. Go and click on this link to take you to the page. Then plug it in and go. This is wonderful news for us at Clearspring Technologies. A great product with a wonderful new distribution partner. Big news.
A Rush of Productivity
Saturday, October 24th, 2009My book project - ”The Business of Happiness” - has been turned into the publisher. A first indication from their editors is that they are “happy” with it and I am very happy with my partnership with John Buckley who worked with me on the book. We hope to get it into market in early 2010. I never knew how hard writing a book would be. It is a great relief to get the book sent to the publisher.
A new film that I am helping to produce has been sent to the Sundance Film Festival. We all have our fingers crossed that it will be accepted. I am very proud to be associated with another “Filmanthropy” project such as this. Rick Allen, CEO of SnagFilms, has been working with me and the first time film directors on it. It is a very moving documentary about an inspirational character who overcomes great odds to win at the game of life!
Some of the companies that I am associated with as founder, majority owner or as an investor, Chairman or serving on their board have been having some break out activities of late. A few names spring to mind - Groupon; SnagFilms; Revolution Money; The Washington Capitals. Customer satisfaction is very high with these companies. Business is booming of late. Growth is off the chart with all of these organizations. All four of these firms are in the business of happiness.
We are blessed. It has been a wild and exciting last six months of work!
New AddThis Switchboard to the World of Content Sharing
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009My how we have grown.
Check out the new AddThis. There are more services; more personalization; and more features than ever before.
Sharing is goodness. Sharing is today. Sharing is global. How can 534 million users be wrong? Try it and you will like it. 
More Robust AddThis
Monday, August 17th, 2009Click here to go to the new AddThis website. AddThis is red hot right now, the #1 sharing platform on the web. We have even added a new AddThis toolbar feature for IE.
If you have a website, a blog or need to bookmark content and services, simply add the AddThis piece of chrome and one click your way to integrating with the web. We offer free world class analytics. We open that menu billions of times per month. We now have more than 300,000 publishers using this service. Sharing is mandatory on the new web and AddThis is the #1 provider of this utility like service.
AddThis is part of Clearspring Technologies, a company founded by Hooman Radfar and one which I am proud to serve as Chairman. Check out the new site and add AddThis today to your site or blog. Thank you.
ReadWriteWeb on Clearspring - Reaching Half of the Internet
Thursday, May 28th, 2009Click here for a very good Q&A on Clearspring and its just announced metrics from Comscore.
It is a very daunting challenge to syndicate social media apps for 300,000 plus publishers to more than 500 million monthly unique visitors. To those who much is given, much is expected. This is important news for our industry and I am honored to serve as Chairman of this firm.
Everything Old is New Again Redux
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009Been there. Done that again. Read this story. Doesn’t it sound old and familiar? This doesn’t represent innovation or new thinking.
Interop - single sign on - dual-headed clients. Sign up once and get an open ID into the web.
Ever hear of Microsoft Passport?
How about AOL’s Magic Carpet?
Or Sun Open SSO?
Or Google Talk and AIM cooperation and interop?
Clearspring Makes a Great Widget for Tough Economic Times
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009Check out this great widget from The Survivors Club on how to survive tough economic times. Service media lives and breathes via a widget. Embed it today.
