Sphere Contextual Widget

Matt Mullenweg (and several others) gave me a heads up that the below post was password protected, sorry about that rather clueless mistake. Here it is again

Last week Sphere presented as part of the Web 2.0 Conference’s Lunchpad. One blogger who was there has a brief writeup here. The focus of our presentation was our new Sphere It Contextual Widget for blogs (Tim O’reilly’s Commentary on the widget). There was a coordinated launch of the widget on 50+ of the top tech sites today. You can see it here.

• ZDNet Blogs
• Market Watch Articles
• GigaOM
• O’Reilly Radar
• Techcrunch
• Techdirt
• John Battelle’s Searchblog
• Venture Beat
• Infectious Greed

There are several more large publishers and prominent micro publishers who will launch the contextual widget in the next few weeks or so – . In the meantime, please take a spin and let us know your thoughts.

Got Sphere’d?

Data Mining is a blog written by Matthew Hurst, one of the founders and core technologists of the company behind the blogpulse blog search engine. Here’s what he posted yesterday about our widget and site relaunch: Data Mining: Sphere Update

After he posted that, it turns out that he “got Sphere’d” from our widget running in You’ve been Sphered. Here are all of his previous posts on Sphere.

Matt correctly points out that there is a network effect that can occur with our technology – this should serve the blogosphere well in it’s goal of reaching a larger audience.

US News and World Report names Sphere “One of Five Internet Stars To Be”….Nice!

This is a pretty cool article written by a U.S. News reporter who saw our Web 2.0 Launchpad presentation. Sphere is mentioned along with four others as one of Five Internet Stars To Be.

Suzanne