Outbrain.com - Five-Star Blogroll Widget

What the biggest pain in the neck about an RSS reader or blog surfing? There is way too much good stuff you probably are not seeing, and tons of stuff you wish you had not read in the first place. Outbrain.com provides you with a tool that allows likeminded RSS and blog readers to float better content and flag stuff they found to be a waste of time. The site was founded by Yaron Galai and Ori Lahav, two seasoned experts that have launched sites like Shopping.com and Quigo. Their not quite official widget launch will provide users with a blogroll widget that offers users the highest rated blog content on the web. These five-star ratings also aid website publishers, they will now be able to gauge on scale of 1-5 how well the users enjoy the content they are providing. Outbrain has recently received an unannounced amount of VC funding from LGiLab, GlenRock, Sigma PCM and other private investors. They have announced, however, that the funding will be used to build their team, and work on a more highly developed business model.

“Each of the sources you"re tempted to subscribe to are probably read by many other people. Yet the irony is that each person has to read each post to know whether it was interesting or not. On top of that, you"re probably missing some wonderful gems in blogs you don"t subscribe to.