Can Bookmarks be Sexy?

Sep 05

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I don’t know about you, but I have seen quite a lot of sites recently using little pop-up icons to represent the different ’social-sharing’ services, allowing people to let others quickly know how much they enjoyed the post they have just read (hopefully).

I have been using the great ShareThis service which I thought was nice looking, iconic and subtle. You do not see anything until you click on the nice green ShareThis icon.  However, this does mean you have to click on the icon, assuming that you know what it might do I suppose.

I did wonder how these other bloggers had got these little icons on their posts that popped up when you hover the mouse over them.  So, on one site, I viewed the source for the page and found a reference to SexyBookmarks.  Checking out the site I found it was another free (or donationware) WordPress plugin, giving you quite a few options for which services to include icons for. Nice!


I don’t think that SexyBookmarks has any tracking like the ShareThis service, but I do like the pop-up design of the icons.

So, which do you prefer?  I have included both below on this post, let me know, in the comments, which one you prefer to see.  And if you know a bit more about either service or use them yourself, please also let me know.   Thank you.

Update: Added twtpoll to make it easier.  Please vote and let me know what you think.


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