Incorporating Sphere It in EE site

lol that site won’t even load in IE right now (script errors)

It loads fine from where I am. Besides, if it’s good enough for O’Reilly, it’s good enough for me 😉.

Unless you have a different service that performs better, of course!

That’s hard to answer since I can’t see the site to begin with 😊

I was curious as to what it is. is it a site like this new blogrush thing? I think i’ve seen some sphere links on CNN stories.

No, I don’t think it is. Blogrush was new to me –thanks for mentioning it.

I’ve attached a screenshot of the home page of Sphere, so you get an idea.

Loads fine for me. One can easily see how well it works by using their SphereIt bookmarket. I randomly chose some articles from my feed reader…Tried about ten…here’s a sampling…

New York Times article on Russia…Gave me very little related. Several were OJ articles that were totally unrelated. GigaOm post on EchoStar buying Sling…Very good, almost all related. Engaget post about a new Camcorder…Hardly anything related. A DemoFall post about a new storage technology…Nothing related. Some were even about baseball.

It was pretty hit/miss for me. Out of ten, only two really gave me good related articles/posts.

I only tried it at GigaOM…. O, back to the drawing table then.

back to the drawing table then

I think it could be good but since the results are so site specific and varied, one would need to run the bookmarklet over several different articles on ones site to see. If ones site got the results GigaOm got, it would be good for that particular site. Otherwise it’s pretty useless.

I couldn’t agree more… It was a nice concept, though.