ShareThis revealed its impressive growth since launching its unified sharing button on November 7, 2007. The ShareThis button enables you to share content with just one click, without even leaving the webpage you’re on. Since its launch, this button has been installed by thousands of publishers, generating 100 million plus views from more than 26 million unique users every month.

ShareThis is not a destination site. Its button can be deployed on any site to drive traffic, stimulate viral activity, and track the sharing of content. ShareThis also simplifies social media services by reducing clutter on webpages, and providing instant distribution of content across social networks, affiliate groups, and communities. ShareThis will be announcing major partnerships with leading publishers, blogs, and content providers over the coming weeks.

“Our growth demonstrates the demand from publishers and users to make sharing easy, and the timing is good. Until now, sharing has been disjointed and complicated by too many choices,” commented Tim Schigel, CEO of ShareThis. “ShareThis is the quickest and easiest way for people to share anything online: it’s the one-click way to share any digital content– photos, videos, articles, and music.”

ShareThis raised a $6 million Series A round in 2007 with high-profile investors including: Blue Chip Venture Company, Illinois Ventures, DFJ Mercury, Queen City Angels and RPM Ventures.

Originally posted on January 23, 2008 @ 5:46 am

PublicRoutes.com, an international directions-based web resource for public transportation, announced the launch of a complete resource for navigating public transportation throughout the entire metropolitan areas of Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio.

This free service provides local residents and visitors to the area with point-to-point directions for all modes of transportation available – from bus to driving to walking directions. PublicRoutes.com also allows users to obtain information and door-to-door directions to each city’s top points of interest including restaurants, sporting arenas and nightlife venues. The addition of Cleveland and Columbus to the PublicRoutes.com platform enhances the company’s range of service to citizens across the United States and continues the company’s tremendous growth.

PublicRoutes.com now offers services to over 30 cities across the US and the UK. The company will soon expand to include more cities within the U.S. and internationally.

Originally posted on January 21, 2008 @ 6:16 pm

WorthPoint Corporation has reached an important milestone this week when its relatively new web site surpassed its one millionth page view.

WorthPoint Founder and CEO Will Seippel, a passionate collector and a tech company turnaround specialist, founded WorthPoint to make it much easier for people around the world to learn about the history and value of the things they own or want to own. The site boasts almost two million data points of historical and current prices, photographs and descriptions from more than 250 auction houses.

While the site is a growing information source for collectors, it is more than that as a business, Seippel said. “What’s underneath is more complex. We are a data company crossing collectors from around the world into one large financial market. Our social web 2.0 portal is only the first way to monetize and share the data. WorthPoint is creating a language for the $150 billion collectibles industry, setting up taxonomies and cataloging data.”

Originally posted on January 22, 2008 @ 12:02 pm

The Weather Network and MeteoMedia, Canada’s leading providers of weather information, bring consumers integrated highway maps of the latest road conditions, in conjunction with Microsoft Virtual Earth mapping software. Available in both official languages, consumers can now view the latest and most up-to-date highway road conditions on an interactive map, on a satellite image or a combination of both.
Within the new platform, consumers can “zoom in” to street level or “zoom out” to view conditions across the entire country. Accessing highway conditions will be more visual, user-friendly and interactive. Users can continue to access visibility data which has been integrated into the new Virtual Earth-based mapping system.

Originally posted on January 21, 2008 @ 4:06 pm