Comments on: Spotback Launches Their “Rate Everything” Widget

By: Another Personalized News Site Bites The Dust | Christian eBuddy Blog

Another Personalized News Site Bites The Dust | Christian eBuddy Blog — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 22:03:13 +0000

[...] competitors like Searchfox (deadpool, assets acquired by Yahoo), Findory (deadpool), Spotback (change in strategy) and Feeds 2.0 (no idea what their status is, site is [...]

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Revver Founder Launches Thoof: Personalized News Service — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:06:47 +0000

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By: Revver Founder Launches Thoof: Personalized News Service : Forecast-Blog

Revver Founder Launches Thoof: Personalized News Service : Forecast-Blog — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:17:32 +0000

[...] or another include Searchfox (deadpool, assets acquired by Yahoo), Findory (deadpool), Spotback (change in strategy) and Feeds 2.0 (no idea what their status is, site is [...]

By: Connected Internet

Connected Internet — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:44:43 +0000

Did You Spot I Added Spotback Widgets?…

I very quietly added Spotback Widgets to my site yesterday which I read about first on TechCrunch. I didn’t announce it as I wanted to see if anyone noticed. The Spotback Widget service is still in beta, but I think it looks very promising.
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By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:46:11 +0000

Micha -

Very cool stuff! Could this be used to rate postings in an online help (tech support) site? If so, is there a way to run reports to see the most useful postings on a site, etc.? Thanks!

By: Boomsoft

Boomsoft — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:40:38 +0000

@ earthshots, the widget looks great on your site. nice job. how did you get it already? i signed up but havent heard anything back yet.

By: earthshots.org

earthshots.org — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:31:44 +0000

we’ve just installed the widget on http://www.earthshots.org... let’s see how it does!

By: Mike Wheel

Mike Wheel — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:40:02 +0000

Andy,

That http://blogarate.com site you linked to looks very slick.
The 5 star rating widget looks almost beautiful

By: Basicity

Basicity — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:11:19 +0000

Very cool widget. Looking forward to testing it out on my sites.

By: thesubjective

thesubjective — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:45:13 +0000

It’s pretty rad.

Kudos.

By: Micha Kaufman

Micha Kaufman — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:49:08 +0000

@SorenG [28]
The system is not based on IP and soon you will be able to register and access your account from any computer.

@Laurent [29]
No problem. When we say ‘rate everything’ we mean EVERYTHING! Adding rating to comments is as easy as adding it to posts. We will post a sample of comment-rating in our blog shortly.

Micha Kaufman
CEO | Spotback.com

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:19:30 +0000

Hmm, maybe worth linking through to an existing live service such as

http://blogarate.com

It includes MyBlogLog like recent voters, and a central portal.

By: Wes

Wes — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:31:20 +0000

23.
Thanks Maor.

By: the last yeti

the last yeti — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 05:28:18 +0000

For those of you asking for a Techcrunch alternative, there’s always the newly-launched GigaCrunch.com (I though it was a joke, too).

By: Yaniv

Yaniv — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 04:30:26 +0000

Slick implementation. But then, that’s the way it usually is with the amazing Spotback team.

By: Adam Healey

Adam Healey — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 03:34:04 +0000

me likey. Sometimes the comments are FAR more interesting than the post.

By: Laurent

Laurent — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 02:12:21 +0000

what I want is a “digg for comments” on blog posts so that I can easily find comments that I should read.
It would be valuable for the readers of the blog, so the blogger would be interested in adding the service on their blog.
What do you guys think?

By: SorenG

SorenG — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 01:47:35 +0000

Without registration, I am guessing they must be using the IP address of the user. This is OK once there are not many users, but probably not so if it scales. If they are doing based on IP address (I am not sure how else they could do it) how do they make sure that I get my news versus my neighbors? Anyone from the company here to answer that?

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 01:06:28 +0000

All conflicts are noted here - http://www.techcrunch.com/about-techcrunch/. I have no financial interest in spotback.

By: ana

ana — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:11:36 +0000

hola mundo

By: Payola on TechCrunch

Payola on TechCrunch — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 23:32:20 +0000

For someone’s that’s been very vocal about PayPerPost and their issues with lack of disclosure, it’s surprising that you fail to mention that you are (or have been until very recently) an advisor to Spotback.
Could you elaborate on that relationship, on what interest you still have in the company, and how that interest has affected your extremely positive review of a ‘non stable’ product?

By: Adam Healey

Adam Healey — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 22:45:57 +0000

i can’t wait to not use this.

By: Maor

Maor — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 22:33:51 +0000

20.
Wes - not only will you be able to change the BG and all the design you will also be able to customize it in many different ways.

By: Egor

Egor — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 22:20:26 +0000

Все нормально. Но немного не понятно - зачем.

By: Nathan Kaiser

Nathan Kaiser — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:04:25 +0000

LOL - if you guys are looking for an alternative to TechCrunch, you should start you own. TechCrunch hits and misses, but most of the time it is a better resource than most other sites. That being said, there are a number of good sites; http://pulse2.com/, http://mashable.com/, etc.