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Some due housekeeping. Ugh - I was hoping to avoid this post...:
A few months back I predicted that Google would not develop anytime soon a presentation app to compete with PowerPoint.
D'oh! - I was so wrong. Note to self: Never underestimate the Google'rs eagerness to inflict pain on Microsoft (and vice versa...)
"Prediction is very difficult, especially when it's about the future." --Nils Bohr, Nobel laureate in Physics
Thanks for the catch, Barak.
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.
Just landed in SF for the Web2.0 Expo this week. If you're around for the conference and want to catch some time together, drop me a note!
yaron [at] galai [dot] com
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