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May 23, 2006

Sphere and others : related posts from the blogosphere

Filed under: blogs, conversation, search

Sphere is providing related links from the blogosphere for related items to stories in time magazine…these results aren’t only based on blog posts that explicitly link to the article, they are related to the topic in other ways as well (perhaps content analysis)…you can do this via a bookmarklet to see related stories to the current web page you are on.

See TechCrunch for more.

Technorati don’t have a related feature, they have a link feature, that lets you see who is talking about (linking to) a story, they too have a bookmarklet, and work with publishers.
I like that Technorati show the titles of posts within the newsite, whereas Sphere is only linked to.

Tony Conrad of Sphere explains the differences, and Sphere seems to be delivering.

I think both types of conversation strategies are relevant (pardon the pun), Technorati provides a more explicit conversation, where people are actually referencing each other, whereas Sphere is more topical based, not neccessarily the same conversation.

I guess Technorati Tags could also be included in this discussion…first you could find out who links to a conversation, this result page could list a tag cloud for tags used for each item on the result page, clicking on a tag would show related items.

Whatever happened to Waypath Related…Google and Yahoo! also have a related feature…also click on the related link on any Google News story.

More from the citizensphere

Then we have Pluck Insite, where you can include author blogs into your portal…also see Topix, Newsvine, CommonTimes, gabbr, NowPublic, Gather, etc…blogburst (Pluck again), topix again, newscast (newsgator), blogs on demand (newstext)…

Whether it’s inbuilt blogs or a link to a blog engine for more, citizen insight is exploding.

[ADDED 13/06/06: ScooptWord]

[ADDED 15/06/06: What about Sphere related posts from my blog only, ie. for each blog post it would show other posts of mine that are related…or what about related posts from my OPML instead of the whole blogosphere]

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