<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Scobleizer]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://scobleizer.blog]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Robert Scoble]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://scobleizer.blog/author/scobleizer/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[A &#8220;Sphereiment&#8221; &#8212; what do you&nbsp;think?]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Hmmm, the Sphere/Automattic guys are doing a little experiment on my blog (with my permission). I&#8217;m not getting paid for this and I&#8217;m not seeing any advertising revenue for this. I just wanted to try it out, and see what my readers think. If you all hate it, we&#8217;ll remove it. If you like it, we&#8217;ll see if we can improve it. It has a link to FM Media, which is cool. They are a great advertising distribution network. But if they stay, I will change that to a&nbsp;PodTech sponsor link.</p>
<p>Anyway, check out the little Sphere links underneath each post.</p>
<p>What do you think?</p>
<p>UPDATE: so far I&#8217;m not very impressed. On the Riya story, for instance, that got tons of links and other things to and from it doesn&#8217;t pull up anything relevant. Hopefully that can be fixed over time and these will get more useful. I&#8217;ll leave these up for at least a week to see if they get more utility over time. If they don&#8217;t, they are gonna be gone anyway. I don&#8217;t like visual clutter that doesn&#8217;t add real utility.</p>
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