Now don’t any of you start bitching about this not having to do with Free Traffic or I just might have to smack you upside your pointy little heads. I’ll bet you a dollar to a doughnut that 0-100% of the people that visit this site and comment are also MBLer’s. How’s that for some great stats!
How many of you have noticed that since Yahoo! took over – things have gotten a little ‘clunkier’? And what’s with this ‘validate’ my site crap – I mean, I’m not stupid, but trying to follow their directions to have my site validated is insane. I follow their instructions – and bupkiss – I even went to their help section – oh lord, what cheesehead wrote that – and I emailed them as well – and you know the results of that.
So here’s the deal. A short time ago most of us who are MBLer’s got an email from Ian Kennedy, Product Manager. How exciting. For those of you who didn’t get it, didn’t read, read it and don’t remember it – here it is:
“Hello, MyBlogLoggers:
It took a long time for word to get out about our changeover to Yahoo! IDs. Lesson learned. This time we’re reaching out to you via
old-fashioned email.
In a couple weeks, we’ll be launching a new feature called New with Me. This feature will use the URLs on the Services tab of your
MyBlogLog profile to aggregate your latest activity on sites such asTwitter, Last.fm, Digg, and YouTube. As a result, your profile page
will look different – publicly available updates from the services you have listed will be merged with your existing information. Your
latest Flickr photos, Last.fm tracks, and YouTube videos, will all be in one place. Updates from your contacts on MyBlogLog will be merged
and available as well. Simply put, the New with Me feature will transform your static profile into a dynamic one.
MyBlogLog respects your privacy. We will aggregate and display only information that is publicly available. If you’re uncomfortable with
MyBlogLog aggregating and displaying publicly available information from a particular service, you can remove that service from your
profile at any time.
Of course, we hope you’re excited about the broader distribution of everything you produce on the Web. If you use any of the sites
featured in the Services tab, you know the value of being able to display all your activity in one place.
Your MyBlogLog profile, About Me widget, and Email Signature were the first steps in distributing your Web identity. New with Me is the
next, pulling together a unified picture of who you are on the distributed social Web. We have lots of cool things planned for this
feature — I hope you’ll use it to help build the next generation of the Web.
For details, please check out our FAQ on this feature.
As always, check our blog for the latest news from us.
See you online!
Ian Kennedy
Product Manager, MyBlogLog ”
I’d really like to have your take on this whole thing. Give me your thoughts, your rants, your raves. Okay?
MorganLighter
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