Outbrain Buzz

"I just popped a little gizmo from outbrain.com on this blog that allows the reader(s) to rate each post, under the assumption that my fragile ego will be able to handle the assault. This should help me figure out which columns to send to random editors when I'm in the mood for rejection."

"It's a familiar concept with a few tweaks and upgrades for the specific needs of the blogosphere, brought to us by the far-smarter-than-I-am techie people at Outbrain. What's really unique about these five little yellow stars is that they don't only give you the overall rating for my post from all the lovely people who've come here. These ratings are personalized to your own rating history!"

"The thing that sets Ourbrain apart from any other ordinary rating system is their intention to have RSS aggregators actually use their ratings to propose recommendations. That is a lofty, nerdy goal that I can get behind. Outbrain ratings, ahoy!"

"I am talking about something even cooler than comments...This nifty little plug-in will let you place a rating bar at the bottom of your posts allowing readers to rate it... Even if your readers didn’t want to leave a comment (you have to think of something to say, and often there isn’t anything to add), but did want to let you know how much they enjoyed the post, they could click on the appropriate star."

"This is WAY too cool not to post about... This is a totally awesome idea... Now you can add a 5-star rating gizmo to all your posts and get immediate feedback from your readers! How cool is that? It’s called Outbrain and it is easy-peasy to install. Go, enjoy! Seriously, this may be the Killer App that forces me to go to a Wordpress.org hosted site instead of the freebie version."

"You don't need to log in to use it, just click a star that reflects your feelings towards the quality of the writing. This is brought to us by a company called Outbrain and they tell me that next up is a "top rated posts" doodad. Exciting."

"It is exactly what I was looking for."

"Ho pensato di inserire questo sistema perchè non a tutti piace dedicare un minuto del proprio tempo a commentare un post, ma da parte mia è sempre buono avere un feedback su quello che scrivo e capire cosa viene apprezzato maggiormente. Adesso non avete più scuse, giudicare un post prende meno di un secondo!"

"It gets 10/10 as it's so easy to install and looks great...AND it's free! =)"

"Is Outbrain the Spotback killer ? While spotback claims to allow you to 'rate everything', Outbrain focuses on the only important thing for us bloggers: rate your posts, install in one click."

"C'est l'un des plugins les plus simples qu'il m'ait été donné à mettre en place sous Wordpress"

"My absolute favorite part of the widget is that it's just for rating. No ajaxy effects, advertisements, logos, and there isn't a social networked tacked onto it. You don't even have to register to get it."

"Blogs that are on Blogger, WordPress or TypePad can now add the wonderful outbrain star ratings widget to their blog posts."

"The interesting part about Outbrain is that it finds people like you and shows you ratings for the group it places you in (along with the raw score)."

"Wow, you guys really made it easy!  I was expecting that to take a little while to figure out.... I really love having the ability to be rated on my posts.  It's good feedback for me about what my readers like."

"As of today, adding a rating system to your blog has just gotten a lot easier. Whether you use Typepad, Blogger, or WordPress to do your blogging, you can now easily add a rating system to your blog through Outbrain."

"Among the ones I read about I found the Outbrain Rating Widget to be the best. Its simple compact look and quick response while rating makes it a must have for any blogger who wants to understand if the visitors like what they are reading."

"I have been thinking whether i should use this rating bar instead of allowing comments, because there are a bunch of visitors who loves to read but do not like to leave long comments and in order to collect better stats, a simple way to collect instant feedback would be using a rating bar."

"Most of the visitors who visits the blogs show laziness in commenting about the work, this widget is a cool thing for them to show their views about the Posts."

"This morning I met with Yaron Galai and John LoGioco from Outbrain. Located in NYC are Yaron, CEO and John, Director of Business Development. The balance of the team is located in Israel. The most basic description is that Outbrain is a voting widget for your blog and RSS feed. You add a simple script to your template and then Outbrain will allow readers to rate your content with a simple voting mechanism. You can see a demo below or on Yaron's blog. John described Outbrain as a company that - 'makes sense of content'".

"Founded in June 2006, Israel and now NYC-based Outbrain has raised funding for its blog rating service. Outbrain is not fully launched at this point, but they indicate that it will offer personalization or recommendations of blogs and RSS feeds tapping the collective wisdom of RSS readers. As you rate blog posts, you get a feed from Outbrain that should be tailored to your interests."

"LGiLab, Glenrock fund and others invest in outbrain, a company formed by Yaron Galai and Uri Lahav. Outbrain will give users a platform to rate new blog posts (using the RSS reader). Outbrain will allow users to view posts with high ranking..."

"...The answer is a process that will be able to analyze specific interests and priorities and provide personalized “newspapers” tailored to specific readers. Such service will take the real advantage of RSS and harness it into sophisticated information service.
Outbrain is an attempt in creating personalized news service. Although Outbrain is in the very first stages the direction is right..."