Well if centralized blogging sites (aka epinions and even closed review sites like cnet) are going down, then what will these aggregators aggregate? They can't live off of just blog content. Plus blog content usually ends up being unformatted, and tough to pick apart (how many sites have a standard way of rating stuff?). btw isn't noodly all about edge content?
Pete Cashmore
· 3 years ago
"They can’t live off off just blog content."
Why the heck not? There's more content out there in the blogosphere than all these silos put together.
TAD
· 3 years ago
I like the idea of the edge aggregators, but neither of these two really appeal to me. iNods is about shopping, and I don't do any reviews of that sort. Kritx requires you to put your review into a special format, which I don't care for either. It's too restrictive. I don't give my reviews a star rating, nor do I care for a lot of their other fields. It'll make my review look canned. They should just carry whatever I choose to write about as is. They can provide optional tags we can use which will make our content appear more attractive on their site.
Edge aggregation is the future, but I'm not impressed with what we have so far.
Vaibhav Domkundwar - iNods.com
· 3 years ago
Pete, you are right. There is a ton of valuable content, including review content on the blogs today and it will just continue to get better in value and better in structure.
Brian, if you check a few searches on iNods you will see that a very small percentage of results are from centralized sites like epinions.com and others. A large number of valueable content is coming from niche review sites that are tracking lcd monitors or ipods or other products/services. Most of these are affiliate sites and they ensuring their content is valuable to keep visitors coming back and fueling affiliate revenues.
Blogs will be really another kind of affiliate sites and we, at iNods, want to encourage that.
Also, centralized sites may not all shutdown ... they will have their own value proposition.
The egde content aggregation model may not apply to all segments but it is really a strong one for reviews and advice content.
TAD
· 3 years ago
Ok, now that I have actually bothered to LOOK at iNods, it looks pretty cool. I'm going to submit my reviews and we'll see what happens.
Vaibhav Domkundwar - iNods.com
· 3 years ago
TAD:
You will see that iNods currently covers areas beyond shopping as well including travel, lifestyle etc. We may not be as strong in it as yet. But stay tuned as we expand and make it more evident by changing the text above the search box :)
Also, I am completely in agreement with you with regards to structure. iNods will support structures BUT WILL NEVER require a review content writer to structure the content in any particular way. For example the game review "Game Review: Heroscape 2" post on your site will be seamlessly indexed by iNods and displayed for relevant search queries.
We will however "encourage" writers to simply submit their site/blog to us directly and will have a ping functionality setup soon along with a set of "suggested" guidelines to follow like you have said about optional tags.
Brian Breslin
· 3 years ago
I'll be honest, i didn't even look at inods. i looked at kritx a few months or weeks ago (whenever Pete mentioned it). But my issue was that these "silos" of information shouldn't be dismissed so handily, because I will take a review of a $800 camcorder from cnet ANY day over joe schmoe in little rock's blog post about it. And it would take a great number of joe schmoes clamoring over and over about it to make me take them as seriously as a lab tested device. (I know cnet reviewing something doesn't guarantee any superior knowledge to joe schmoe, but it does give me better points of reference). What I would like to see in this field is more of a "45 bloggers had positive reviews of canon supercam, and 21 had neutral, while 1434324 had negative reviews" (you get my drift)
Brian Breslin
· 3 years ago
oh yeah, and ps. kritx returned zero results for either canon, powermac, or lexus. what am I supposed to do if I want to buy a lexus hybrid suv loaded with a powermac g5 and a canon slr???
this still leaves a lot to be desired...
Pete Cashmore
· 3 years ago
Brian,
I agree - they both need work, and this idea has a long way to go before it can beat the centralised sites. But I think in the long run aggregators *will* beat the silos because of the huge volume of information out there in the blogosphere. In theory, you should be able to find more products listed on KritX and iNods than anywhere else, but we're not there yet.
TAD
· 3 years ago
Re: Reviews of consumer electronics... While I like to read professional reviews as well, I'm going to make my mind up by reading what real people have to say about the products. If cNet gives an awesome review of an item and then everyone on Amazon says it sucks, I'm not going to bother buying it.
Pete Cashmore
· 3 years ago
TAD,
I agree - with consumer electronics, one of the questions you ask yourself is: how likely is it that this product will break? If CNet tests a product for maybe a few days (or more likely a few hours) and then decides that it's great, you really learn nothing about the reliability or long term usability of the product. But if 20 people on Amazon say: this external harddrive broke after 3 months, you've got your answer.
Cyril
· 1 year ago
Hi do you know an easy way to create a website like yelp ? not really commercial project but for friends communauty in france
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btw isn't noodly all about edge content?
Why the heck not? There's more content out there in the blogosphere than all these silos put together.
Edge aggregation is the future, but I'm not impressed with what we have so far.
Brian, if you check a few searches on iNods you will see that a very small percentage of results are from centralized sites like epinions.com and others. A large number of valueable content is coming from niche review sites that are tracking lcd monitors or ipods or other products/services. Most of these are affiliate sites and they ensuring their content is valuable to keep visitors coming back and fueling affiliate revenues.
Blogs will be really another kind of affiliate sites and we, at iNods, want to encourage that.
Also, centralized sites may not all shutdown ... they will have their own value proposition.
The egde content aggregation model may not apply to all segments but it is really a strong one for reviews and advice content.
You will see that iNods currently covers areas beyond shopping as well including travel, lifestyle etc. We may not be as strong in it as yet. But stay tuned as we expand and make it more evident by changing the text above the search box :)
Also, I am completely in agreement with you with regards to structure. iNods will support structures BUT WILL NEVER require a review content writer to structure the content in any particular way. For example the game review "Game Review: Heroscape 2" post on your site will be seamlessly indexed by iNods and displayed for relevant search queries.
We will however "encourage" writers to simply submit their site/blog to us directly and will have a ping functionality setup soon along with a set of "suggested" guidelines to follow like you have said about optional tags.
What I would like to see in this field is more of a "45 bloggers had positive reviews of canon supercam, and 21 had neutral, while 1434324 had negative reviews" (you get my drift)
this still leaves a lot to be desired...
I agree - they both need work, and this idea has a long way to go before it can beat the centralised sites. But I think in the long run aggregators *will* beat the silos because of the huge volume of information out there in the blogosphere. In theory, you should be able to find more products listed on KritX and iNods than anywhere else, but we're not there yet.
I agree - with consumer electronics, one of the questions you ask yourself is: how likely is it that this product will break? If CNet tests a product for maybe a few days (or more likely a few hours) and then decides that it's great, you really learn nothing about the reliability or long term usability of the product. But if 20 people on Amazon say: this external harddrive broke after 3 months, you've got your answer.
do you know an easy way to create a website like yelp ?
not really commercial project but for friends communauty in france
many thanks