Comments on: MyBlogLog Communities http://joeanderson.co.uk/blog/2006/06/20/mybloglog-communities/ A blog by a Brit about Web 2.0 . Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:30:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: MyBlogLog Communities at BlogsBlog http://joeanderson.co.uk/blog/2006/06/20/mybloglog-communities/#comment-58417 MyBlogLog Communities at BlogsBlog Fri, 12 Jan 2007 20:41:37 +0000 http://joeanderson.co.uk/blog/2006/06/20/mybloglog-communities/#comment-58417 [...] MyBlogLog Community is a social networking site launched by MyBlogLog in May last year. Webby’s World reviewed this service when it first came out. It has recently been acquired by Yahoo!. [...] [...] MyBlogLog Community is a social networking site launched by MyBlogLog in May last year. Webby’s World reviewed this service when it first came out. It has recently been acquired by Yahoo!. [...]

]]> By: A Blog Soup http://joeanderson.co.uk/blog/2006/06/20/mybloglog-communities/#comment-9356 A Blog Soup Tue, 11 Jul 2006 02:37:54 +0000 http://joeanderson.co.uk/blog/2006/06/20/mybloglog-communities/#comment-9356 <strong>An interview with Eric Marcoullier...</strong> "The upshot of this new community feature is that you can continue to gain a better understanding of your readers. We have some cool stats for MyBlogLog users with at least 10 members in their community, such as "Top Links My Readers Clicked Elsewher... An interview with Eric Marcoullier…

“The upshot of this new community feature is that you can continue to gain a better understanding of your readers. We have some cool stats for MyBlogLog users with at least 10 members in their community, such as “Top Links My Readers Clicked Elsewher…

]]> By: Eric Marcoullier http://joeanderson.co.uk/blog/2006/06/20/mybloglog-communities/#comment-7157 Eric Marcoullier Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:30:47 +0000 http://joeanderson.co.uk/blog/2006/06/20/mybloglog-communities/#comment-7157 Thanks for the kind writeup, Joe. Since I couldn't make myself more available today to exchange emails, I wanted to take a few moments to add some context to your thoughtful analysis of MyBlogLog's new service. > Currently, it just seems like a sub-project. That's not a bad way of putting it, actually. We're still beta. And not "we're too chicken to call it 1.0" beta. "Major features are still really in flux" beta. Even though we're making no attempt to hide it, you're peeking behind the curtains right now. > However, I have yet to see how this site > commercially benefits MyBlogLog. > However, I think it needs another name and to be > moved to it’s own domain if it wishes to gain > any respect. When we better integrate this service with MyBlogLog's tracking functionality, it will make a lot more sense. MyBlogLog was launched last year to give bloggers and other authors who actively link offsite a way to better understand their readers. By telling you what links people click on, we give you a bit more intimacy with your readers -- you know what they're interested in. MyBlogLog Communities (still a temp name) is the next step in becoming closer to your readers. Hopefully the new service makes more sense in that context. > Interestingly, many social bookmarking sites, > including del.icio.us, are not included. Awesome point. They're are so many bits of wake that people leave behing them these days, it's hard to collect them all. We'll add them, and given time, we're going to start polling the RSS feeds for people's Digg and del.icio.us profiles and integrate that info in their profiles. > it may be a good idea to aggregate feeds from > CoComment onto these pages Great idea. > Also, the site could do with much more AJAX. > Lighter shades of colours would be much better We're simply not about the <a href="http://redeye.firstround.com/2006/05/53651.html" title="53651" rel="nofollow">53651</a> that's spread though the Crunchosphere. We tracked 30 million unique readers through our partner blogs last month and the majority of those people came from sites like <a href="http://www.rosie.com" title="Rosie.com" rel="nofollow">Rosie.com</a> and <a href="http://www.justjared.com/" title="Just Jared" rel="nofollow">Just Jared</a>. Those readers aren't yet ready for AJAX. Maybe they're ready for pastels, but I'm not going to take reckless chances :) Thanks for the kind writeup, Joe. Since I couldn’t make myself more available today to exchange emails, I wanted to take a few moments to add some context to your thoughtful analysis of MyBlogLog’s new service.

> Currently, it just seems like a sub-project.

That’s not a bad way of putting it, actually. We’re still beta. And not “we’re too chicken to call it 1.0″ beta. “Major features are still really in flux” beta. Even though we’re making no attempt to hide it, you’re peeking behind the curtains right now.

> However, I have yet to see how this site
> commercially benefits MyBlogLog.

> However, I think it needs another name and to be
> moved to it’s own domain if it wishes to gain
> any respect.

When we better integrate this service with MyBlogLog’s tracking functionality, it will make a lot more sense. MyBlogLog was launched last year to give bloggers and other authors who actively link offsite a way to better understand their readers. By telling you what links people click on, we give you a bit more intimacy with your readers — you know what they’re interested in. MyBlogLog Communities (still a temp name) is the next step in becoming closer to your readers. Hopefully the new service makes more sense in that context.

> Interestingly, many social bookmarking sites,
> including del.icio.us, are not included.

Awesome point. They’re are so many bits of wake that people leave behing them these days, it’s hard to collect them all. We’ll add them, and given time, we’re going to start polling the RSS feeds for people’s Digg and del.icio.us profiles and integrate that info in their profiles.

> it may be a good idea to aggregate feeds from
> CoComment onto these pages

Great idea.

> Also, the site could do with much more AJAX.

> Lighter shades of colours would be much better

We’re simply not about the 53651 that’s spread though the Crunchosphere. We tracked 30 million unique readers through our partner blogs last month and the majority of those people came from sites like Rosie.com and Just Jared. Those readers aren’t yet ready for AJAX. Maybe they’re ready for pastels, but I’m not going to take reckless chances :)

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