It was confirmed last week that 9Rules the premium blogging network was purchased by Splashpress Media. 9rules has to be one of the longest running network of blogs, but for a long time now they have just been completely pointless. 9rules profiles the best blogs in each sector, well thats what they claim to have but in reality they have pretty much have none of the top blogs within their network and just seem to promote the blogs they like.
This leads me to Splashpress Media which has a good number of blogs in their network that seem to make some decent money, however I dont really understand why they would purchase 9rules. Obviously the purchases didnt disclose the amount and it doesnt seem like 9rules was purchase because of their earning potential, so Im not too sure why Splashpress did the deal.
How is Splashpress Media going to improve 9rules?
They need to get the actual top blogs in each sector on board – Sites like Regator provide much better quality in terms of content and 9rules are just so far behind its not funny.
9rules needs to move away from just aggregating posts – Instead of just profiling blog content they need to have a different angle. 9rules would be a great platform to develop an exclusive advertising network. They could sign the top sites and sign them to exclusive advertising deals.
Revenue model – currently 9rules doesnt make any money and hasnt done for quite a long time.
Regator is a very popular news directory which profiles some of the best blog posts from all over the world on a variety of topics. The directory only profiles the Crème de la crème of sites and then only the best articles on those sites.
Today Regator is announcing the launch of their iPhone application. Features include:
· Browse posts from over 500 topics as diverse as beekeeping, geology, indie music, pop culture, job hunting, or basketball.
· Search Regator’s extensive archive, returning results that users have described as being consistently more relevant and higher quality than those returned by Google Blog Search.
· View the most popular blog posts across the blogosphere or in your favorite topic.
· See trends to get an up-to-the-minute, spam-free look at exactly what bloggers in any niche are writing about right now.
· Keep up with the newest blog posts, updated every few seconds.
· Read the full text of posts on the original source blog.
· Share posts via email, Facebook, or Twitter.
· Find more information on a story with Regator’s related posts feature.
Finding quality articles can be time consuming in today’s era where we are hooked to reading interesting and worthwhile info on topics we like. Regator is such an aggregator portal which searches and provides interesting articles and latest news and happenings in technology, health, entertainment, sports, and latest happenings in business and finance sector, all organized and categorized at one place.
Regator is a portal where you can find links to various interesting article published on web from time to time. So you don’t have to search and keep looking for an hour for something useful and interesting to read. The Site has various categories where you can find articles of that niche and click on the link to read it. Actually regator has a team of few people who work to search these articles from sites and blogs that provide quality content and put them at one place for people to read.
You can even search posts and articles on your favorite reality shows or episodes. There is a ’search’ and even ‘advanced search’ feature for you to search for specific reviews of products like your favorite ‘iPhone’ or cool new ‘Nokia N97’ and you will find tons of posts on it. Also you can register on site and rate the posts you read on regator and the highest rated articles are shown on the front page of regator, just like the other social bookmarkers like Digg. You can personalize a lot on regator including organizing, saving and rating your favorite articles and posts.
Not only does it have article search but also audio and video posts for those who like watching more than reading. If you specifically like reading content from blog, they also have that search category – ‘Blog results’ on front page. Regator has nearly 2 millions posts archived by them till now. Its actually archiving the best of weblogs content and presenting it in a organized and searchable way.
(By) An avid freelance writer and technology enthusiast, Sagar Trapasia from India. Fanatic about the web, he also writes a blog.
