One To Watch: Proximic

Most of the time you'll come accross some widgets that are crap and have no useful what-so-ever. But sometimes you see some widgets that are really useful. And proximic is certainly the later.

I was looking at some news widgets to embed into my affiliate sites as an alternative to FeedDigest and found proximic on the way.

It's a widget that you can either install a toolbar (yawn) or add it to your site to connect users with related information and products. At the moment there's no way to monetise it, but it's on the way.

It's still in beta but there is so much opportunity to turn it into a revenue generation tool and a method to keep people in your site longer as they play with it.

I've used it here to allow people to find related news, books etc. I'm not interested in earning from its installation on this blog, but its a good test to see how it'll work on my others.

You have the opportunity to restrict any of the other resources it finds to your own domain which is useful to move people around your site. The Independent are currently using it too. You can see it in action here.

You can try it out by clicking on the "Find Related Information" link below: