Have you ever run across a brilliant application and you think, “Damn, I should have thought of that!”
To me, Spotplex.com is one of them.
For years, everyone has been trying to get around the Digg voting by assembling groups of friends and paying people to submit stories, but Spotplex is offering a different solution.
Just place a piece of code, and Spotplex tracks the number of visitors your article receives. Then, depending on the traffic, the story has the ability to get onto the home page.
Spotplex is a web service
The part I like about it is that it really is so simple. From the functionality side, Spotplex is a web service, no different than MyBlogLog. (I am by know means comparing the two, but they are both web services.)
The change being a twist in the algorithm whichs keeps track of the number of hits on one post and ranking them accordingly.
The simplicity is that the blog platform is irrelevant. It doesn’t matter if you use TypePad or WordPress or Blogger, it just takes a code snippet to alleviate all of those issues.
What do you need?
As entrepreneurs and developers, think about it – This web service market is new and inviting. Startups are constantly getting funding by bringing ‘code snippets’ to the table. Granted, there is a backend to the service where all the computing happens, but it isn’t anything too daunting.
Even better yet, Google and Yahoo are looking for the next web services that they can implement in their software. You know what that means, right?
The web service market is a new, undefined phenomenon. With more people always on (as in broadband), there is more transparency in the way the internet is interacting with websites and our desktops.
Why not make the most of it by trying to discover the next new web service?!
via Techcrunch
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