Saturday, April 14, 2007
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I will be going offline for a couple of weeks, starting tomorrow. This is not some innovative web2.0 experiment intended to explore the possibilities of living without email. Rather, it is a much more mundane call to reserve army service :).
I will be back with a vengeance come May 1st, with further coverage of some cool new features from outbrain.com, plus a review of Google Calendar and the wonderful ways you can make it work together with Outlook 2007.
See you in a couple of weeks.
urig.
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 given Spotback a "run for their money" (note that the service is totally free :) ), but it sounds promising. Their public launch should spice up the competition in the emerging arena of personalized rating-based content.
Check back here for a full review of Spotback's new public features.