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LouderVoice lets you tell the world how good stuff is
What do you get when you mix a Digg-esque ranking scale, a Twitter-like SMS roll, and a focus on amplifying the public opinion? You get LouderVoice, a review-anything web site that seems to have caught on. Opinions aplenty abound here, so whether you're looking for more XBox fanboy ammo or just a recommendation on a skateboard to get to work (hey, I ride my skateboard to work--don't you?), LouderVoice indexes somebody's opinion on just about every subject.
LouderVoice gets its content in one of several ways--by aggregating reviews from blogs (which any blogger can take advantage of, a la Twitter), by pulling in a review you've posted on your MySpace page, or by allowing you to submit a review via SMS on your mobile device. Needless to say, SMS reviews are really short and often suffer from typically poor cellphone grammar.
So is LouderVoice worthwhile for review bloggers? Perhaps, as it may drive some traffic to your blog. But, at least to us, it looks like LouderVoice is gaming bloggers for free content in order to (someday) profit from product-specific Amazon sell-thrus. Not a bad business model, if the site becomes popular enough.
LouderVoice gets its content in one of several ways--by aggregating reviews from blogs (which any blogger can take advantage of, a la Twitter), by pulling in a review you've posted on your MySpace page, or by allowing you to submit a review via SMS on your mobile device. Needless to say, SMS reviews are really short and often suffer from typically poor cellphone grammar.
So is LouderVoice worthwhile for review bloggers? Perhaps, as it may drive some traffic to your blog. But, at least to us, it looks like LouderVoice is gaming bloggers for free content in order to (someday) profit from product-specific Amazon sell-thrus. Not a bad business model, if the site becomes popular enough.
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Subscribe to commentsvittalNov 20th 2007 11:51AM
its a nice ... i like it very much
Conor O'NeillNov 20th 2007 3:47PM
Hey, thanks for the mention!
An important aspect of what we are doing with the blog reviews is that we publish them to your blog in an open community format called hreview. This makes your reviews portable (and better indexable by Technorati who co-developed the standard). So you could direct your reviews to any review site which supports this format. Your reviews are simply more valuable to you like this.
We genuinely don't see it as "gaming" bloggers. Our targets are the many bloggers who write great reviews/opinions but have few readers and no online reputation. Unlike all of the review silos out there, you own the content on your site and we send people to the source to read it.
Whilst we are a "review anything" site, we find it interesting that the bulk of the reviews so far are non-mainstream. You won't find 100 iPod reviews in there but you will find the only review on the web of Delicias Pepinillos Gherkins
TedlyNov 20th 2007 4:15PM
No sweat Conor. There's no shame in using people's content for to build a business. You compensate them with traffic and an audience, you compensate yourself by monetizing their content. Nothing wrong with that.