BlogMatcher is a dating service for blogs. Well, not exactly, but it seems as though every networking tool out there is either for business or dating. Through a blog into their search and it’ll give you back a handful of blogs with similar links. How cute!
hmmm, I think they need to work on their algorithm, my practice of pushing all my favorite RSS feeds onto my blog as hyperlinks also seems to push me to be the top match for way too many blogs, yours included. The more non computer generated hyperlinks on a blog the better the service seems to work. Think it work better if it could separate the blogroll links from the post links too. I’m way more interested in people writing about what I do then people who happen to blogroll the same people I do, although that info has its own value…
William – i definitely agree that the algorithm needs tweaking, but i still appreciate any system that tries to find the connections between people and thus the “fashion” of the web. Early days of Blogdex were a riot because they had a lot of these features built in – who were you and how did you relate to other bloggers? Of course, usefulness is not automatically implied in fun things like this.
You might also want to check out Tangent. They claim that “it’s like sex for web sites”.
I think that i’ve missed Tangent’s point. They arbitrarily link you to other sites based on having the same words, including very common words like “words.” OK.. so i think that most of the mating algorithms (for either me or my blog) are poor.. why would i devalue the link structure of my blog to publicly highlight these dreadful algorithms? For humor sake? Perhaps i just don’t get it…
I was seeing it more as an interesting emergent attempt to build the semantic web. (Bottom-up instead of top-down.) It seems like its a lot more configurable than you make it sound. And they won a web award at SXSW, so they must be cool, right? Well, it was more a point of interest than a suggestion to actually hop in the sack with them. Although you can give it a go without committing…
Ben – i put my blog through the preview and i still can’t see the value. I guess i sorta view linking structure as a really valuable part of my blog identity presentation. While i may link to folks that i disagree with, i never link to something that i know nothing about… It feels more like creating a meaningless entangled web as opposed to a semantic one.
But perhaps i’m just getting old and not realizing the coolness.