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Jobbing with WizzRSS and the new Blat Blog Platform

Outbrain is proud to be a part of Mike Kroger’s burgeoning technology empire in South Africa. Mike is the brains behind WizzRSS, which is the default Firefox extension rss reader with a cult like following. In fact Mike just announced a record breaking number of users on November 14th this year. We have had the sincere pleasure of working with Mike as he was one of the first rss readers to integrate the Outbrain ratings system into WizzRSS.

But he is not stopping there as he has just launched a new blog platform named Blat. Mike is using the Wordpress MU platform as the backbone and will be adding more templates and features soon. We are grateful that Mike also included the Outbrain rating widget as one of the first plugins for his fellow blatters. The blogosphere will be a better place now that Mike is applying his skills to support content creation as we should all look forward to some great posts from blatters on the red continent. Way to go Mike, it’s been great jobbing with you on these two projects.

Translation - *Jobbing* is a nickname for “working together”

Think Outbrain is cool?

To all our fans and users we are happy to announce our entry into the Crunchies.  This is an award contest for the coolest innovations around the web in 2007.  If you think our rating and recommendation widget is one of the best innovations to help consumers (with information overload) please give us a boost here. 

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