DISQUS

bree · 3 years ago

Good summary of the features and benefits of MyBlogLog. I agree that a useful enhancement would be to pool the data from the users' various communities on their profiles. I'd also like to see a display of the communities you belong to as a dynamic blogroll. It'd be great, because it would automatically add new sites as you visit them.The visual elements would also be cool.

Great site you have here.

Kevin · 3 years ago

Bree: I was thinking of the Dynamic Blogroll idea too. It's be more intuitive than manually adding blogs, even through Blogrolling.com which is what I currently use. We should compile a list of ideas for MyBlogLog developers.

bree · 3 years ago

I have been sending ideas on already! I dissed the service on my blog and ended up in a conversation with Eric, the first "friend" you get. That turned into an ongoing back-and-forth in which I ranted about my wishlists. They are open to feedback and suggestions, but they have just begun and are quite busy. It's their willingness to listen and their obvious aim to improve that impressed me and convinced me to push their service on my own blog.

And then they made me a featured user. Go figure.

But yes, I think compiling a list of ideas would be helpful and a lot less random than sending a ton of messages back and forth from different sources.

derek · 3 years ago

Nice article -- I'll try to play with this when I have more time. I'm still waiting for the social network application that pays me to help build their marketing profiles...

Kevin · 3 years ago

Derek: Have you heard of PayPerPost.com? Techcrunch has something to say about it...

peter · 3 years ago

Hmm I joined your community.. but probably need more time to play around with i guess.... :)

herry · 3 years ago

Quite an interesting stuff, it makes your blog more personal.

derek · 3 years ago

Kevin: Mmmm... bloggie payola... Actually, I was thinking more about the interest-based profiles that are created through all these social networking services. I'm skeptical that fee-based (subsciption) services will take off in the near future. The financially-successful socnet services (aside from those specifically oriented towards matchmaking) have all fallen back on selling advertising. My participation in these services helps build targeted marketing profiles for myself and those in my network. So if my participation has monetary value, I'd like a cut. At least I'd feel better about wasting so much time with all these socnet toys... :)

Kevin · 3 years ago

Derek: Reminds me of some web sites in the old days where you get score points for joining promotions and get paid to see commercials. You're talking about an evolution of that system... how deviously fun!

dt · 3 years ago

I really like it too, especially when you have friends that visit frequently.

However the mybloglog interface needs a lot of work. Right now acessing account details as well as getting the code widget working is difficult to see. Also it would be great if the tracker and the visitor list is the same java script. Speeds up load times.

washtub · 3 years ago

Hey there Kevin -- I'm going to try this thing out, not sure how I feel about it in concept.

Kevin · 3 years ago

DT: I agree, there's a lot of potential for MyBlogLog, so it really depends on how fast they can get things going before people get tired and forget about them. Marketing themselve via Blog Widgets is ingenious, but it could get stale once we start seeing the same few faces.

WashTub: Great to have you on board! See, it's working already... it's a natural reminder to pay you a visit! :)

Eric Marcoullier · 3 years ago

Heya dt --

We're spending some serious cycles right now trying to make the existing site more intuitive. When you say that some of the things are difficult to see, are you mainly talking about the white on orange or are you saying that the buttons are in unintuitive places?

Surprisingly, putting all of the features into one script is bad on many levels. First, separating the scripts enables you to place different widgets in different locations. You may want the Reader Roll way up on the page but the Top 5 elsewhere. Also, it allows you to put the tracking script right after the body tag for optimum effectiveness. Lastly, from a loading perspective, it's far better to break them up because 1) we don't have to run several queries to determine what widgets you have and what settings you;re using and 2) we can load in parallel.

Kevin --

Your last comment is true for just about every startup and it hangs over our head like a virtual Sword of Damacles. We need to reach a critical mass of polish before people get tired of waiting. Hopefully the Communities launch has bought us a bit more time :)

Kevin · 3 years ago

Clary: Same here... though I don't have a paid account. Can you take a screenshot of what the paid account screen looks like so I can see if it's worth paying for?

The ZenViva Guys · 2 years ago

Kevin, Thanks for the great post that is still relevant and useful (~1.5 years after posting it) to someone just starting up with MyBlogLog!