More Content
BlogCast is content you care about. 1-step install puts up-to-the-minute links to some of the most popular content on the internet in front of you and your readers.
More Value
Are you a casual blogger? A pro? Either case can benefit from the BlogCast service. BlogCast gives you constantly updating content that’s “tuned” to the current topics in your blog. Your audience’s demand for new information is virtually insatiable, why not provide them with a user-powered tool that delivers fresh, high-quality links to stories and information they care about?
More Money
BlogCast doesn’t just take up space. Contextual advertising delivers unobtrusive, relevant ads to your audience and puts cash in your pocket (no, we don’t know our revenue split yet, but it will be GENEROUS).
So…
What do you think?
Love it?
Hate it?
Meh?
Let us know!
Take our poll and please, please, PLEASE (yes we’re begging, the fate of a web2.0 application is at stake here people!) comment this post with your thoughts!
I’m a very small fish in the blogging pond. This is a little beyond me, and I really don’t like the idea of having ads on my blog. I know a lot of people do, but it’s not for me.
I don’t like ads either. Perhaps one day if a sponsor is in the picture, I will allow a tasteful “plug”, but naw… not for me.
i’m completely aligned with the previous comments — i would definitely install on at least a trial basis if it weren’t for the adverts.
i like the general idea, but can’t live with the marketing side of it.
Well I have no qualms with the ads. They never keep me from reading my favorite blogs, likewise they never ‘force’ me to click on an ad. I think if it really is contextual and is consistent then rock on. I like the tabs and broader range…
To be honest, I can’t quite tell what BlogCast is from the one page description of it. Maybe I’m just not tech saavy enough, but I can’t figure out what it is, enough to know if it’ll be something I want to use.
Hope this is a help to you guys.
My blog is small enough and I’m well read enough to include my own sites of interest. I cite a lot of articles in my posts. And I really, on a gut level, don’t like the idea of advertising on my blog. It makes me feel like I am promoting a machine that I have no personal control over.
If this were purely informational…kind of a technorati listing of who else has written on a topic I am interested in…and if I had the ability to pick and choose what was on my site…that would be a different story.
I just barely understand what a blog is but this looks like a good tool even to me
Looks like an OK idea to me — but if you go forward with it, please be sure to make the feeds *completely* customizable, especially in terms of height and width.
This idea in not my favorite. I like the idea of “instant” resources and information, but I really like to filter what is on my blog. It is meant to be an encouragement to moms and I wouldn’t want them to get slimed by some yucky internet gunk, or bummed out by meanies.
Thanks for asking for input. I love my word cloud, by the way, and have sent several folks your way.
I have a “crafty” blog, which is business related, so I don’t think I’d use this. I’d like to have more control over what content appears. Now, make it so that *I* can enter a list of sites to cull from and you’d have something! Looks good, and I’m sure a lot of people will bite– it’s just not for me.
Like Nicolle, I don’t really care about unobtrusive advertising on blogs. I have the Google ad at the top of mine, but sometimes it’s completely random and has NO relation to the content. They just picked up on words found here and there…like my post about not wanting kids somehow led to an ad for Mommy & Me events–in Rhode Island. Which is 3000 miles away. Entertaining for my readers to make fun of, but counterproductive to the advertiser.
Like David, if I were to use it, I would definitely need it to be completely customizable to blend well with my templates and whatnot.
Agree with the rest. Not that hot of an offering. Although it’s user-selected – who are the users??? Are they like me?
And you have to work on the explanation – i didn’t really get it until the fourth paragraph.