I came across a new service this weekend: OutBrain and I’ve decided to give it a run out.

Outbrain does two things. Firstly it adds a rating system to each post. You can see now that at the bottom of each post there is a star rating system. I hope that this will get me some feedback as to the kind of posts people like most. This rating system should (I will see when I publish this post if it happens) also add the rating stars to the feed as well so posts can be rated without visiting the site at all.

This extra integration with Feedburner seems like a great addition that makes it that much more useful.

The second thing it does is offer some suggests for similar posts on other blogs.

It may not always be the most profitable thing to do but I like the idea of recommending good posts to anyone that is interested enough to visit the site.

Installation is pretty easy. There is a WordPress plugin and that is pretty much all you need. Importantly for me it can detect Disqus and work with it, as well as working with the default WordPress commenting system.

If you have used it yourself I would be interested to know what your experience is, otherwise I will report back in due course.