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Spotback is now in public beta
14 April 07 10:10 AM | urig | with no comments

Spotback which advertises itself as the "rate everything!" platform for the web 2.0 is finally out of private beta and available to the public. Spotback provides widgets that blog writers can embed in their blogs. The widgets enable readers to both rate blog posts and see which blogs posts have received the highest ratings from others. Spotback users are also provided with a personalized recommendation service that takes their past ratings into consideration - a bit like outbrain.com . I haven't...

תגים:tools, blogs, social software, outbrain

Outbrain.com - Personalized blog recommendations
09 April 07 07:50 PM | urig | 1 comment(s)

A couple of weeks ago I've had the pleasure of attending outbrain.com 's "friends night out". A small get together of bloggers, outbrain.com crew and sympathizers. Not only was it great fun, it was also educational as Dr. Nahum Sharfman (of shopping.com fame ) gave a short talk about the recent web 2.0 startup boom. Dr. Sharfman's bottom line seems to be that nobody knows what's going to catch on and what isn't, with the one exception that a viable business model should be the prerequisite for anyone...

תגים:firefox, rss, blogs, cool, outbrain