I love the ease of use and rich feature set of the AddThis social media service. However, due to it’s popularity the design has become overused and mundane. I decided to see if I could customize it to match the overall experience of kevinleary.net.

The results came out pretty nice in my opinion. I may eventually swap out the [ + ] icon in the future, but for now I think it works. I’m always a bit hesitant to re-design consistencies.
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VKI Studios has created a FireFox Greasemonkey plugin to add social media statistics to your Google Analytics dashboard. The Social Media Metrics Greasemonkey Plugin For Google Analytics lets you track your social media stats for:

• Digg
• Sphinn
• Mixx
• Reddit
• StumbleUpon
• Del.icio.us
• Yahoo inLinks

How to Setup

1. Make sure you have Greasemonkey installed on Firefox.
2. Click on this install link.
3. You’re all done, now log-in to your Google Analytics account and check it out.