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bywebmuse, October 30, 2009
ValAddThis module
I needed a tool which would allow me and my clients to specify which articles they wanted the Social Networking "AddThis" button to show. With just a little adjustments, this is the perfect solution.
I would have given it the full 5-stars except, now I have to "hide" the "Read more..." and add my own, and have this text within the article link to a menu link for this page, and ensure the menu link is selected in the module definition. A few more steps that would be necessary with a plug-in. It does meet my needs.
Owner's reply

Thanks for your vote! I'm glad the module met your needs; As with every module, you may have any module appear within an article and that would work just fine if you need it for an "Article Layout" view; Although if you intend to use it inside "Category/Section Blog Layout" views, it will probably not pass the appropriate URL/Title of the article, rather the Category's/Section's URL. For this kind of article layout-views it would be better if you used a content-plugin.

bywebmuse, October 29, 2009
AddThis
Wonderful tool, but because it defaults to adding the Share button on EVERY article, it makes it unusable for many of my clients. The time necessary to add "{addthis off}" in the majority of articles is unreasonable.

Here's how it could be improved:
1) Parameter to toggle on/off the automatic adding to all articles
2) if {addthis on} were used for those articles where the Share button is desired.

Possbily use this as a basis for a new extension called "Add This Here", which defaults to showing the Share button ONLY on those pages that include {addthishere} or {addthishere on} to those articles where it is desired.

Final recommendation -- add the Hide/Show as a parameter in the Article Editor - Parameters(Advanced).
bywebmuse, October 7, 2009
Vemod News Mailer
Richly featured component which will automatically pull content from selected sections and categories, and compile it into a single newsletter, or can send them separately. Utilizes the Joomla! builtin features for intro text and read more... links to keep the overall size of the email reasonable, and also bring visitors to your site.