A few months ago, we began testing the interactive blog rating widget from RateItAll (see Beyond Web 2.0 - Interactive Rating Widget). At the time, this widget was in closed beta. Now, RateItAll is opening things up with a more flexible widget design (more sizes and colors). As before, this is a truly interactive widget - it lives on your blog, but lets your visitors update your blog’s ratings and reviews at RateItAll, along with displaying these on your site. It even lets new RIA users register from within the widget without ever leaving your site. Here’s an example:
Feel free to rate this blog to see how it works. To get your own copy, start here. The intention is that this rating tool will see use far beyond blogs - it can be employed on any kind of site to rate the site itself or something else, e.g., a local business. RateItAll is already a massive repository of rankings and reviews - this widget enables them to make it easy for both other sites and users to interact.
(In the interest of full disclosure, I’ll add that I’m an advisor to RateItAll. I’d still put the feedback widget up on this blog, but I probably wouldn’t have gotten into the original closed beta without this exalted status. 
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