Posts Tagged with ‘mybloglog’

Now we hear the news that Yahoo Mash will be closed some time today. It has been announced by Yahoo! in an email all the users of the social network have received. In the email Yahoo! Team thanks everyone for participating in the beta test of the social network and invites to copy all the content we may want to keep to a separate document. I don’t have any content over there anyway and I don’t really think many users [...]

Today the rather popular network for bloggers MyBlogLog announces redesign of their website - unfortunately, without any new features or without following the obvious pattern of FriendFeed.
In general it seems to me that the company has decided to stick to changing the design whenever they feel that some improvements are needed. But unfortunately new design does not guarantee popularity for the service. True, the new version of their community widget for blogs drew enough attention to the [...]

Recently MyBlogLog, a popular blog community and blog sharing site, went through some changes. It was acquired by Yahoo a while back, a change that was met with aggravation by many users who didn't want to a) combine their Yahoo personal account with their MyBlogLog account or b) be forced to create a second Yahoo account to handle the issue of privacy. Now MyBlogLog has eroded user privacy and usability yet again with its “New With Me” feature.
This [...]

As a newly launched directory of blogs, Blogged.com is aiming to not only provide visitors with links to thousands of interesting blogs, but to be a “blog discovery and exploration tool supported by a network that connects bloggers with readers.” Having just publicly launched two days ago (February 25, 2008) the database of more than 200,000 blogs of various categories is already impressive in size.
Where most blog search tools use tags and keywords to find individual posts within blogs, Blogged [...]

Watching the Yahoo layoffs on Tuesday as news of who was out hit Twitter and blogs was depressing, to say the least. But the biggest surprise, at least for me, was what appeared to be a decimation of Brickhouse, with Bradley Horowitz, head of Yahoo's Advanced Technology Division leaving for Google, and Salim Ismail, head of Brickhouse, either getting the axe or leaving of his own accord depending on which news source you read.
Obviously, I have no secret window into [...]

Thursday night, the first face-to-face meeting was held at the RapLeaf offices in California or those involved in the Data Portability Group, including Chris Saad (Faraday Media), Daniela Barbosa (Dow Jones), J. Sullivan (Mozilla), Mike McKenna (Yahoo), Marc Canter, Tod Sampson (MyBlogLog), Steve Williams (Digg), Ben Metcalfe, David Recordon (Six Apart), Joseph Smarr (Plaxo), J. Trent Adams (MatchMine) and Jim Meyer (LinkedIn).
Chris Saad opened the meeting with introductions and explaining the new hierarchy of the Google Groups set up for [...]

If some of the latest funding news is any indication, widgets are the newest must-have for every content-driven site as well as Web 2.0 apps. Widgetbox allows users to create their own widgets, which can then be used on blogs and other web pages for everything from highlighting the RSS feed of another blog to running games in a sidebar.
And while widgets are the darlings of Web 2.0 companies from MyBlogLog to Flickr, even old-school companies are jumping on the [...]

Sometimes I'm a little slow at catching on with new things. It took an interesting new look to Ross Mayfield's blog to get me to notice Dandelife, but I may have gotten hooked on this whole lifecasting thing. I was fortunate enough to spend some time IMing with Dandelife CEO Kelly Abbott about his vision for Dandelife as well as getting a bit of a newcomer's walk-through.
Dandelife started out as a blogging platform, but it's obviously a different application than [...]

Nielsen/NetRatings announced this week that they were going to change the way they rank web sites, moving from prioritizing page views in determining sites' popularity to "total minutes" and "total sessions."
What was immediately clear from the announcement and the initial coverage is that the Powers That Be in the web popularity game are still not getting it, and neither are the media outlets, many of whom are probably buying ads based on this antiquated system.
Forbes references "increasingly using a software [...]