Wordpress Plugin: Sphere, find what’s related easier.

Posted by Apex

March 8, 2007

While i was surfing the AOL news website, i saw this little cool features. Its called Sphere. What is Sphere?
Its hard for me to explain to you until you try it for yourself. What i can describe about Sphere is it is a tool or plugin that can help you find or display high-quality, relevant, and timely blog posts and makes it possible for publishers to integrate contextually relevant blog posts alongside your articles. In short, you can find any related news that related to your post or articles easier than before.

Then i contact Tony Conrad, the CEO of Sphere how to have this cool thing so i can put it in my blog and today Tony replied me the email together with the plugin for Wordpress. If you wanna see Sphere in action for Wordpress blog, you can see it here, look at the end of each post there is a little Sphere button. Try to click it. Cool huh?

Who needs Sphere?

Everybody, of course! In one of three flavors…

1. People interested in timely topics, who aren’t quite sure about this whole blogging hoo-ha.

2. Readers who already use blog search engines, and are sick of disappointing results and spam. Those who secretly crave a faster, more intuitive, and feature-rich experience.

3. Publishers who might like to include some really good blog content in their websites, but only if it’s really, truly good.
What makes us better than other blog search engines?

There are over 60 million blogs, and counting. With so many people reading, writing, and commenting on blogs (where do we find the time?), getting to the high-quality, relevant content on a timely basis is difficult. For a variety of boring, complex technical reasons (such as an exclusive emphasis on freshness, or a simplistic computation of “authority” or the inability to identify spam), other blog search services deliver less-than-satisfying results.

Here’s what you get when you use Sphere:

1. An easy-to-use, intuitive search engine.

2. Great search results, with posts ordered by relevance or time.

3. Related mainstream media, books, photos and podcasts right next to the results for a complete picture of the conversation.

4. Recommended blogs by topic.

5. Sphere’s award winning Contextual Widget integrates results into several popular websites such as Time.com, Dow jones Market Watch, ZDNet, Techcrunch and GigaOM.