How many times did you finish seeing a wonderful movie, and said to yourself "whoa – this movie was so good, I’d like to tell all my friends to run and see it"?
But then when you got back home – how many times did you actually write an email about the movie and CC’ed your whole address book on that email? I’ll take a wild guess – you haven’t.
Blogs are the same. I read a ton of blog posts and find myself daily thinking "this was an excellent post that I’d love to share with my friends/family/blog readers/peers/etc". Sometimes I email the link to a couple of people. If I have time, I might write a full post about it on this blog. But usually I don’t have time to do either and those gems I find go away without any of my friends ever knowing about them.
Netflix has a wonderful solution for movies – You tell Netflix which movies you loved, and they in return aggregate and package those recommendations in a useful way that is automatically shared with all your friends (well – those who use Netflix at least). Your friends get access to the brilliant movies you find, and vice versa – you benefit from the gems that other people you trust find.
At outbrain we’re trying to do a similar thing for blog posts – you rate the stuff you read, and we’ll package and share it in useful ways among the outbrain community.
Outbrain’s new blog widget which you can see here… —————————>
…contains those blog posts that I recently read and found most interesting. Those are the posts that I’d love to send each one of you by email every time I stumble upon them. But I don’t. This is now the best place to peak over my shoulder and see the best things I read recently. I think you’ll enjoy the stuff that shows up here.
As of today, we’re opening up this widget for more bloggers to use on their blogs. If you have a blog and are interested in getting this widget – drop me a note:
galai [at] outbrain [dot] com
Or register here.