Six Apart Launches its Own Blog Aggregator - Blogs.com

From the blogging platform company, Six Apart comes a new blog aggregation site, similar to Technorati, Techmeme, and many others, simply called Blogs.com. If you would recall, Blogs.com was an old domain name owned by Six Apart. The domain has been dormant for quite some time now, and whatever is the purpose of Six Apart in resurrecting it via a new blog aggregation service, I hope it gains something out of the project.

Anyway, using a very appropriate domain for its blog aggregation service puts one ace up for Six Apart. Netizens would definitely have no problem memorizing the name. And incidental traffic to the site coming from those who would search for the keyword “blogs” might actually give them some traction. The next thing for Six Apart to do now, is to make the Blogs.com services and features as exciting and as useful as other blog aggregators available on the web today.

For non-bloggers who may stumble upon Blogs.com as they scour the web, the site aims to help you discover the best in blogs by category and topic, read daily blog round-ups of some of the best blogs on the web, and view top ten lists blog posts from celebrity A-list bloggers. In addition, users can also add their own top 10 lists.

One noteable feature of Blogs.com is its newsletter subscription service. Running on a weekly frequency, Blogs.com will deliver the latest blog updates right in your email inbox. This is a free subscription and you can unsubscribe anytime you want to.

Another distinctive feature of Blogs.com is the absence of an algorithm that determines which blogs get to be featured on the site. Instead, a group of editors scour the web to find the best blogs and blog posts and highlights them on Blogs.com as they deem appropriate. For bloggers who want their blogs to be featured on the different categories, Blogs.com has a submission form for doing so.

There are many other good features of the Blogs.com worth mentioning. But we leave you to discover and find out about it by visiting Blogs.com.

We have to give the editors and contributors at Blogs.com though, for their great effort in making Blogs.com as different as possible with other Blog aggregators on the web.