The growth of our network is remarkable. On July 26 this year we posted about the state of our traffic at that time:

“Since we opened our service as public beta three months ago, nearly 2,000 websites chose to install our rating and recommendation tools, generating a total of more than 500,000 pageviews per day.”

Now, less than two months later, we are happy to report that our installation base has grown to more than 3,000 websites and we serve recommendations to more than 1,200,000 web pages per day.

To learn more about our rating and recommendation tools, please visit http://spotback.com

About ten days ago, Seeking Alpha launched its new website. The new site includes a number of new additions (you can read about the new version here), including a great new story feedback and recommendation system powered by Spotback. The new recommendation system allows users to rate specific stories as interesting or not interesting and receive recommendations to additional relevant content based on their preferences. Spotback also handles Seeking Alpha’s Top Stories.

If you are interested in stock market opinions and analysis from blogs, money managers and investment newsletters as well as high-value, complementary financial content, you should check out Seeking Alpha.

Screenshot of Seeking Alpha story rating and recommendation powered by Spotback

Screenshot of Seeking Alpha top stories powered by Spotback

The first generation of our rating and recommendation tools was primarily focused in offering better content discovery inside a specific domain, increasing pageloads and visit length. As of today, Spotback releases the next generation of its tools, helping content owners to expose their content to a wider audience and drive more traffic from other sites in the Spotback Network.

Since we opened our service as public beta three months ago, nearly 2,000 websites chose to install our rating and recommendation tools, generating a total of more than 500,000 pageviews per day. Using our new tools, any content owner can now enjoy the benefits of being a part of this fast-growing network and promote their content throughout the net.

This is an example of one of the early adopters of the new Spotback widget

It the lovely blog of the great photographer “Jeff Singer Photography Blog”. As shown in the screenshot below, the widget also has a new look and feel and number of great new features.

Another new ability (not shown on the screenshot) is the full integration of the rating with the RSS streams, allowing RSS readers to rate directly from the RSS feed.

If you want to get the new widget or upgrade your blog from an earlier version, simply visit http://spotback.com/joinspotbacknet/invite and create your new widget.

That’s right boys and girls - from now on you can rate photos using the new ‘Spotback-Flickr Photo Rating’ service. Photo fans will dig it.

The new service allows you to rate any photo you find in Flickr, without having to install anything. It is so easy and effective way to give feedback to photographers and expose their photos to others.

You can rate your own pictures, your friends pictures and any other cool picture you ran into.

Your rated pictures will be saved, along with the rest of your rating in your user page at Spotback.com, as well as in the Spotback - Flickr page.

All you need to do is drag a small ‘Spotback Rater’ button to your browser toolbar and start rating!
Get the toolbar button here

When you use the toolbar button when visiting a specific photo page on Flickr, a small comments is inserted below the photo on Flickr with your rating. Clicking on this comment will allow others to rate this photo as well.

Go to Spotback - Flickr page to find to find the hot photos and personal recommendations to more photos that you should check out.

How cool is that?!

We are delighted to announce a new partnership with YouLicense to provide music discovery and recommendations to an online licensing marketplace.

YouLicense, the online music licensing marketplace has chosen Spotback as its rating and recommendation platform.

YouLicense enables artists and those seeking musical content to conduct business directly without the need to deal with music companies. Through their unique search engine content is indexed and easily searchable.

The special thing about this business relationship is that Spotback have provided YouLicense tools to improve search results. The rating data is not only used to show music buyers personal recommendations and top rated content, it is also used within the search engine to achieve more accurate search results.

Maor Ezer, CEO of YouLicense:

“Implementing the Spotback technology on YouLicense has given us a competitive advantage and I am certain this will improve user experience, in the short and long term.”

If you own a website and you wish to implement our technology, please contact business relations: dana [at] Spotback [dot] com

Here’s an implementation of the rating widget in Japanese. Kudos yoichi!

This is an extremely useful feature that instantly connect stories that people like with other relevant stories. When hovering with your mouse over the rating widget, a list of related content will appear exposing users to additional relevant content that other users liked.

It looks like this: