Big Week for The Blog Recommendation Folks

We had a big week at Outbrain. A new site launched with several updates and enhancements as well as upgrades to the widget kept us all busy. Our R&D team did a great job and our evangelist bloggers were quick to point out tweaks. Thanks. Allen from Centernetworks broke the news, Adam Ostrow from Mashable and Frank Gruber also blogged it. The home page really says it all in that we are squarely focused on ratings and content recommendations. Some think of us as the blog rating folks, but really we are the recommendation folks. We will post more about the "how and why" but this is really the beginning as more and more bloggers like Allen start to see an increase in page views and new referrals from using the Outbrain rating and recommendation widget. Please, tell us what you think about the new site keeping in mind that criticism is valued over compliments.

Speaking at BlogWorld in Las Vegas

I will be speaking at the blogworld & new media expo in Las Vegas on Thursday November 8th at 3PM on the Presentation Stage. The title of the presentation is "How To Fire Up Your Blog With Ratings and Recommendations." The goal of this prezo is to introduce bloggers to Outbrain, have some fun with a visual presentation and share some insight on how to effectively leverage ratings and recommendations on a blog. We are allergic to powerpoint data barf and strive to make our talks enlightening so come on over and learn how to fire up you blog with some cool tools.