June 26, 2006

Back!

I'm back! Nothing like a six-month blogging vacation to recharge the batteries.

So what does someone do on a blogging vacation? For starters, I got married. Yay! Not to get all Hallmark, but wow, it was the best day ever. (If you had asked me five minutes before the ceremony, I would have had no idea things could go so smoothly.) Now a little more than a month later, I feel rejuvinated, and I have got the blogging itch...

When I started blogging, comparison shopping was little relatively uncovered, compared to areas like general search. Now, I want to dig deeper into the niche aspects of comparison shopping. Specifically, I'm fascinated by product portals. General search engines are great, general shopping engines are great, but the single-topic shopping sites are the ones that blow my mind, everything from dpreview.com to softballfans.com (!)

Besides researching, I also plan to launch at least one niche product portal... really excited about dabbling in as many areas of information aggregation as possible. All of the standard product-portal features, plus things like Google Map mashups, creating new data layers on top of other APIs, vertical event engines, the "radical presentation" of user reviews, microformats like hreview, etc.

The Goal: to quickly go from new-site to the undisputed #1 shopping resource in its niche. Fun fun.

All kinds of new posts in the works, although I'll have to balance the blogging against the building.

more soon...

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Posted by Sean O'Rourke on June 26, 2006 at 9:05 AM
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