Sabeer Bhatia Launches BlogEverywhere : Comment on Webpages
March 8th, 2006Remember Sabeer Bhatia – an inventor of the Hotmail free email service that was later acquired by Microsoft for a huge sum of money and made him a millionaire. Now Sabeer Bhatia launches BlogEverywhere.com
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BlogEverywhere is a simple way for you to log your thoughts and comments on any web page as you surf the web. It enables a virtual water cooler discussion on every web page. Over time we build up an online journal of your first hand accounts and unique perspectives on pages of interest to you. Everyone visiting that page can view your comments giving you a potentially large audience. Other viewers can reply to your comments thereby creating a two way conversation.
Users of the website will have to download a toolbar that allows them to write and publish their own blogs, while also giving Hotmail users faster access to their messages. It will download email messages to the user’s personal computer when the internet connection is idle and speed up Hotmail and will let users to delete the e-mail messages from their desktop when they sign out of the hotmail. Read more about it in the Financial Times | ContentSutra
Since it involves downloading a toolbar, its success will depend on professional advertising which reaches a large blogging community and maximum users downloading the blogbar toolbar.
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There seem to be a few companies doing this, in a somewhat similar way. Such as – Poombay (http://www.poombay.com/).
I bet there’s got to be a better way for doing this than by installing browsers plugins.
Will any of them offer an open standard and API for it, Web2.0 style?
i think that s a great idea!