I am thinking, based on your comment, I should take a look at Others Online in the future and post some impressions on it. I’m obviously interested in helping bloggers reach their audience and other bloggers.

Thanks for visiting and commenting. I will say when I saw the pop up information as I rolled over an avatar in Others Online, I thought, that’s pretty handy!

In contrast, we’re all about increasing your visibility, blog traffic, etc. on a very targeted basis, and connecting people to each other who AREN’T yet readers of each other’s blogs (but maybe should be). You know how companies buy keyword-based advertising? Well, think of us as free peer-to-peer targeted promotion — you tag yourself and then other people see your profile/site when it’s relevant to their Web browsing and interests. Perhaps just as importantly, you see relevant people too. We’re all about the people.

That said, we’re not doing it very well yet. We’re prelaunch and still putting a number of the critical pieces in place. The widget you point out (alpha release) is one of them. Lots of other things to do before we can consistently deliver value to users.