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| Feb 24, 2011 | Finally, Sweet Sleep for MyBlogLog; Another Yahoo Service That Could Have Changed the World | Blog community and data widget service MyBlogLog, acquired by Yahoo 4 years ago last month, will finally be put to rest by its parent company on May 24th, according to an email announcement sent this morning. ReadWriteWeb first reported tha... |
| Feb 18, 2011 | Google debuts Delicious bookmark importer to tempt away users | Google today debuted a new Delicious migration tool for Google Bookmarks, as it aims squarely at fans of Yahoo’s bookmarking service who have been worried that its retiring could lose them their carefully chosen links.
Delicious, which Yaho... |
| Aug 17, 2010 | Yahoo Kills SearchMonkey, Rolls Back BOSS, Says YQL Will Live | One year ago, Yahoo announced that it had signed a deal to replace its own search engine with Microsoft’s Bing – but the big question for us was what that meant for all the incredible search-related programming infrastructure Yahoo makes av... |
| Dec 22, 2009 | Yahoo! Will Kill MyBlogLog Next Month [Update] | Five years to the month after it was founded, cross-blog social networking widget MyBlogLog will be closed down by Yahoo! in January, we’re hearing from sources close to the project. MyBlogLog is a service that shows blog writers and reader... |
| Nov 7, 2009 | Lookery’s Scott Rafer: Advice in the Aftermath | After successfully selling MyBlogLog to Yahoo, it was surprising to see Lookery founder Scott Rafer write a blog post announcing his company’s “orderly shutdown”. In heartbreaking detail he took full responsibility for the company’s demise ... |
| Apr 1, 2009 | How Tough Is It Today Being a VC? 10 Questions for Two Early-Stage Stars | Pity the poor venture capitalist. Times were… well, so cushy. Money was flowing, deals were being done in record time, monetization was something one worried about later, and Silicon Valley was bursting at the seams. The sweet smell of weal... |
| Mar 19, 2009 | Power Hacker Kent Brewster Leaves Yahoo for Netflix | Business troubles at Yahoo! haven’t changed the fact that the company has some of the most innovative Open Web advocates in the industry in its ranks, but today one of those innovative people has left. API wizard Kent Brewster told us last ... |
| Dec 10, 2008 | Zentact: A Must-Have Networking Tool | Freshly launched contact-amplifying service Zentact aims to solve one of the most enduring problems almost everyone faces in using the internet. We meet people, we intend to stay in touch, but we quickly forget and social connections go col... |
| Dec 8, 2008 | Redanyway Is Like MyBlogLog On Steroids (Invites) | Redanyway is a young startup out of India that aims to provide an alternate way to manage your ‘centralized me’ where your personal website or blog is your profile page outside of any walled gardens. The founders dubbed the application a ‘d... |
| Nov 21, 2008 | Open Beta of Google Friend Connect Coming Soon? | Just about half a year ago, Google announced a limited beta of Friend Connect, which allows site owners to display OpenSocial based gadgets on their sites and site visitors to sign in to these social gadgets with their OpenID, AIM, Yahoo, o... |
| Oct 29, 2008 | Five Ways to Keep Your Momentum After A Big Announcement | Congratulations! You made a big announcement and got great reviews, feedback and an influx of people to your website. Yesterday. Today, any number of other organizations and individuals are having the same experience and except for (hopeful... |
| Aug 29, 2008 | Seeds Of A Social Network: Blogger Adds New "Following" Feature | Blogger has announced a new “following” feature that enables members to list themselves as fans of other members’ blogs.
By following a set of blogs, your username and avatar will not only show up among other followers in a MyBlogLog-like g... |
| Aug 10, 2008 | Why Twitter Hasn't Failed: The Power Of Audience | Twitter isn’t for everyone, and you may have dismissed the service a long time ago. But regardless of your own use, it’s hard to dismiss the phenomenon itself and the passion of so many that has built up around it.
No matter how long the ou... |
| Aug 7, 2008 | Offer Personal Content Recommendations for Free with New MyBlogLog Plug-in | Personal recommendations of targeted content are something almost every publisher would like to offer their site visitors. It’s hard though, to know who those visitors are and what they really like. That task just got easier today with the ... |
| Aug 1, 2008 | Eight Ways to Get Users to Fill Out Their Profiles | “Hi, my name is MrCucumber69, I have a gray blob for a face and that’s all I care to share about myself – will you be my friend?” Silly as that sounds, this is the way users of many social web applications greet each other. It’s not very us... |
| Jul 18, 2008 | Twitter Plays Nice: XMPP Firehose Data Feed To Gnip | Twitter is living up to its promise to open up its data stream as much as possible to developers. While I was negotiating with Twitter cofounder Evan Williams to sit down and do a video interview at Foo Camp last weekend, Gnip founder Eric ... |
| Jul 5, 2008 | Weekly Wrapup, 30 June – 4 July 2008 | It’s time to review the week that was on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we looked at Adobe’s announcement of searchable Flash, checked in with online TV service Hulu, reviewed a couple of innovative new web apps (Gnip and Identi.ca) and ... |
| Jul 1, 2008 | Gnip Launches To Ease The Strain On Web Services | Update: TechCrunchIT interviews Gnip founders and Plaxo execs on the launch. Watch the video here.
MyBlogLog founder Eric Marcoullier sold his company to Yahoo in January 2007 for an estimated $10 million. He left Yahoo in July 2007 with th... |
| Jul 1, 2008 | Gnip: Grand Central Station for the Social Web | Ping, ping, ping! That’s the sound made day and night by the new social media technologies rapidly proliferating around the web… and the machines are getting tired. Polling for updates to user data streams, wishing they spoke the same langu... |
| Jun 30, 2008 | Blog Networks: Like MyBlogLog for Facebook | Blogs just got a whole new audience: the casual reader. There has been some concern as of late that mainstream web users don’t really read blogs, but a new Facebook app called “Blog Networks” aims to change that. The easiest way to describe... |
| Jun 10, 2008 | Do You Trust Google to Resist Data Mining Across Services? | Google’s breadth of services is truly awesome and the amount of information the company touches concerning our lives and world can sometimes feel downright frightening. While almost no one takes the old phrase “Don’t Be Evil” seriously anym... |
| May 13, 2008 | Too Many Choices, Too Much Content | Sometimes it’s just hard to keep up. In this technology-focused niche we all live in there are new applications, new initiatives, and new platforms that spring up every day, not to mention constantly breaking news that fills our RSS readers... |
| May 12, 2008 | Is Friend Connect Google's Answer To MyBlogLog? | Longtime readers know how much value this blog has gotten out of mybloglog (now owned by Yahoo!).
I’ve had the mybloglog faceroll widget on this blog for several years and there are 2,613 members in the AVC community on mybloglog. You can s... |
| May 5, 2008 | Distributed Polling | The poll I did yesterday on Yahoo!’s closing price has been taken almost 2,200 times in about a day. How did it get so many takers? By being distributed on many blogs at the same time. The poll has a share tab with embed code and I asked my... |
| May 2, 2008 | TechCrunch Dinner with Scott Rafer, CEO Lookery | UPDATE: This event is now sold out.
I recently heard that Scott Rafer would be in town next week. Scott is a Silicon Valley Internet entrepreneur, CEO of Lookery (CrunchBase info), and former CEO of MyBlogLog, which was acquired by Yahoo! l... |
| Apr 23, 2008 | So You’re Launching a Platform: After Ubiquitous APIs – What’s the Next Frontier? | We’re here at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco and are getting inundated with press releases about new APIs and developer platforms, many from companies we’ve never even heard of in the first place. How long ago was it that the forward-loo... |
| Apr 11, 2008 | MyBlogLog Hits the Streets with Bluetooth-Based User Detection | Following Michael’s post the other day about the future of social networking, we have heard of several more ways the mobile, location-aware nut is being cracked already.
One of these is an “experiment” by MyBlogLog started at eTech and SXSW... |
| Mar 28, 2008 | European startups set out their pitches | The TheNextWeb conference happens in Amsterdam next week, and they’ve announced the startups that will be pitching in the startup competition (below). Some 22 companies get to pitch and the last 2 will be chosen by the crowd. A few other no... |
| Mar 20, 2008 | MyBlogLog Launches Topical Meta Lifestreams | Blog-centric social network MyBlogLog, which just a few weeks ago added lifestreaming to their app, is today launching a new feature that aggregates lifestreams across the network by topic. The streams are presented in reverse chronological... |
| Mar 14, 2008 | MyBlogLog Founder To Launch New Startup Gnip With $1 Million In Funding | MyBlogLog founder Eric Marcoullier sold his company to Yahoo in January 2007 for an estimated $10 million. He left Yahoo in July 2007.
Eric is now preparing to launch a new startup, Gnip. Details are scarce for now – Marcoullier isn’t sayin... |
| Mar 6, 2008 | Google Analytics Benchmarks and the Future of Portable Data | Google announced a new feature for its web analytics product this week that illustrates well the potential in anonymous aggregate data analysis. This siloed product announcement points to an even more exciting future if data portability dre... |
| Feb 29, 2008 | Yahoo’s MyBlogLog drifts up the activity stream. Can it float against FriendFeed? | Yahoo’s blog community site, MyBlogLog, has launched a new acitivity stream (a list of activity from you and your contacts on a social site) portion of its site, which it’s dubbing “New with…”. While a nice addition for users of the site, t... |
| Feb 29, 2008 | Yahoo's MyBlogLog Adds An Activity Stream Feature | MyBlogLog, a blogger social network acquired by Yahoo about a year ago, launched v.2 of their service tonight, with a significant new feature. You can see the MyBlogLog widget in the right sidebar of this site – it shows pictures and names ... |
| Feb 29, 2008 | 35 Ways to Stream Your Life | It’s a pretty good bet that if you’re not making a Twitter or Facebook application, you’re probably making a lifestreaming application. Okay, so not everyone is into lifestreaming, but it is one of the hottest areas for development out ther... |
| Feb 13, 2008 | BlogJuice: Learn About A Blog’s Readers With One Click | MyBlogLog is a powerful application for learning more about any blog’s readership but with the release of an API last month, we knew this Yahoo! owned service was only going to get cooler. Kent Brewster at Yahoo! has hit a home run with Blo... |
| Jan 31, 2008 | Twitter’s struggles harm more than just the users | Micro-messaging site Twitter (Crunchies Award Winner for Best Mobile Start Up) has had a lot of issues with downtime in recent months. This is not only alienating users, it’s having rippling effects on the Internet community as a whole.
Whi... |
| Jan 25, 2008 | Weekly Wrapup, 21-25 Jan 2008 | Here is a summary of the week’s Web Tech action on ReadWriteWeb. For those of you reading this via our website, note that you can subscribe to the Weekly Wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email.
Highlights this week: Marshall e... |
| Jan 21, 2008 | The Significance of the MyBlogLog API | If you could capture and use the names, ages, genders and demonstrated interests of the specific people who visited your website – would you? A whole lot of people providing services online would. While we’ve covered the movement for standa... |
| Dec 25, 2007 | Top Web Apps & Sites of 2007 | It’s the end of the year and so time for ‘best of’ and prediction posts, which are a lot of fun. Today I’ve been re-organizing my Firefox bookmarks, which made me reflect on which web apps and sites I’ve used the most this year. I encourage... |
| Nov 19, 2007 | Are Blog Tracking Services A Security Risk? Citibank Thinks So | Blog tracking and commenting services such as the now Yahoo owned MyBlogLog continue to have fairly widespread usage, but using these services could pose a security risk, at least according to Citibank.
Zoli Erdos uses both MyBlogLog and Bl... |
| Nov 13, 2007 | Yahoo! Says the Future Will be Modeled on Facebook | Saul Hansell at the New York Times gets some people talking at Google and Yahoo! for a write up today on the future of the inbox. It’s a good article, based mostly on words from Brad “Peanut Butter” Garlinghouse at Yahoo! The gist of what e... |
| Jun 27, 2007 | Yahoo! 2.0: Its Reorganization and Future | Yahoo! is changing. Terry Semel’s resignation and co-founder Jerry Yang’s return to the CEO position is one of the most visible changes. Yahoo! has always been harshly criticized for not being a technology company and lagging behind Google.... |
| Jun 25, 2007 | SezWho lets you have say on blog commenters | Updated
Ever notice how some blogs are filled with mean-spirited, crude or self-serving comments, while others have few comments at all?
Palo Alto’s SezWho, a service that lets you build a reputation based on the quality of your online comm... |
| Jun 24, 2007 | Can news site Spotplex level Digg’s playing field? | The web offers more than a few sites with variations on the Digg theme, but Spotplex, which has designed a potentially more democratic ranking system, is different.
Instead of the submit-and-vote system used by Digg and its clones, Spotplex... |
| Jun 4, 2007 | Free Music Continued (responding to Steve and Dawn) | Steve Kane has come out of the closet. He has shred the grandegress pseudonym and is now commenting under his real name. For those of you who don’t know, Steve is a killer entrepreneur from Boston who we backed at Gamesville and he’s also o... |
| May 24, 2007 | MyBlogLog Gets Into Tagging | MyBlogLog, a distributed social network which was acquired by Yahoo earlier this year, will launch a tagging feature later this evening that will allow users to add descriptive tags to the people and blogs (called “communities”) on the serv... |
| May 21, 2007 | MyBlogLog Back On TechCrunch | We’ve re-embedded MyBlogLog onto TechCrunch – we removed it a few months ago due to spam and reliability concerns. After repeated promises by founder Eric Marcoullier and Yahoo (which acquired the company) that the service was stable and sp... |
| May 9, 2007 | World Wide Web of Widgets | The web has seen an explosion in the use of widgets over the past year or so. So let’s explore what a widget is and its uses. Note that in this post, we’re discussing Web-based widgets only, rather than desktop widgets such as those provide... |
| Apr 12, 2007 | Roundup: Sabio, Photobucket cont, Technorati, Choicestream, PersonalBee and more | Here’s the latest:
Thanks for patience — First, VB just changed servers. We understand there are a few formatting problems on our front page, feed hiccups and issues with our search engine. We’ll working to fix them.
Sabio Labs raises secon... |
| Apr 6, 2007 | CrazyEgg – Measuring Web Site Usability | In Jakob Nielsen’s latest book, Prioritizing Web Usability, the usability guru presents his latest discoveries on how to design usable web sites. His meticulous research is based on lab experiments, with thousands of users of diverse backgr... |
| Feb 23, 2007 | MyBlogLog Bans Blogger; Backlash Begins | Update (Arrington): MyBlogLog has responded, apologized and reinstated Shoemoney. Caterina Fake of Yahoo (MyBlogLog’s parent company) has written her thoughts as well. It’s time to move on – and Shoemoney should accept this apology.
Yahoo!’... |
| Feb 20, 2007 | Look Out MyBlogLog – Here Comes Explode | A new open source cross-site social networking service called Explode launched today and looks like a very appealing alternative to the now Yahoo! owned MyBlogLog. Built by UK open-source social network provider Curverider (whose primary pr... |
| Feb 14, 2007 | 1000 Members! | I remember when I passed the 100 member mark on my MyBlogLog community. I thought that was big.
Today I passed the 1000 member mark.
Kiltak was member number 1000.
It’s great that so many people have opted to join the AVC community.
I hope ... |
| Feb 12, 2007 | The Web 2.0 We Weave | http://web.splashcast.net/p/
Neat video by Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Kansas State University.
The video presents a broad overview of the difference between 10+ years ago on the web and the social web of to... |
| Feb 9, 2007 | There's A Community Here At AVC | some of the many many many faces of flickr
Originally uploaded by fubuki.
This isn’t news to many of you but I feel like posting about it anyway. There’s a community here at AVC and what goes on here is less and less about me every day. Tha... |
| Jan 16, 2007 | Yahoo’s Acquisition Pattern: Smart and Cheap | Written by Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard MacManus
Yahoo has had its problems lately. Bad financial results in the 3rd quarter
of 2006 and the
peanut butter manifesto of senior vice president Brad Garlinghouse resulted
in doubt about th... |
| Jan 11, 2007 | Roundup: Cisco sues, Avvenu, Weatherbill, Techdirt, Blue Origin & more | Here’s the latest wrap-up of Silicon Valley tech news:
Cisco sues Apple over iPhone name — Who cares? If Apple loses, it will come up with a different name. Like, ApplePhone, or iPodPhone. Details of suit.
Yahoo signs deal with Akimbo to de... |
| Jan 10, 2007 | MyBlogLog Got Spammed (and so did we) | Michael Jensen shows that it is quite easy to spam MyBlogLog (recently acquired by Yahoo), and he used TechCrunch as the guinea pig for his experiment. We, like many other blogs, display the MyBlogLog widget (right bottom sidebar), which sh... |
| Jan 8, 2007 | Yahoo Buys MyBlogLog. No, They Didn't. Wait, Yes. | Ok so it’s official and confirmed from Yahoo: They bought MyBlogLog. This was first rumored to be happening in November, but was never confirmed and we updated our post to reflect that. This morning the news broke again but was pulled immed... |
| Dec 19, 2006 | 2007 Web Predictions | Written by Richard MacManus, Ebrahim Ezzy, Emre Sokullu, Alex Iskold and Rudy De
Waele. Also John Milan wanted to contribute, but unfortunately got caught up in the Seattle
storm – so best wishes to John and all our Seattle readers.
In our ... |
| Dec 15, 2006 | Merry Microsoft Christmas, Oracle and IBM! | Microsoft’s latest operating system, Vista, which went on sale to corporate customers November 30 — can not run the latest version of Microsoft’s corporate database product, MS SQL Server. Microsoft is working on a SQL Server upgrade (SQL S... |
| Dec 15, 2006 | Google Starts Selling Domains For $10 Per Year | Google has entered the domain business with partners GoDaddy and eNom. An already crowded industry, Google has begun allowing people to register ‘.com’, ‘.net’, ‘.biz’, and ‘.info’ Web site addresses. Web sites that register their domains d... |
| Dec 14, 2006 | MyBlogLog's Growth | I wrote in my Social Networking Interconnects post the other day:
I do know one thing. MyBlogLog seems to be taking off. The number of
contact requests I am getting via MyBlogLog is going up every day.
Well maybe Eric read that. Or maybe no... |
| Dec 11, 2006 | Social Networking Interconnects | To date, most social networks have been silos. You go to MySpace or Facebook or LinkedIn to connect to your social networks. But these social networks don’t really exist outside of those domains, except via email alerts.
Longtime readers kn... |
| Dec 10, 2006 | MyBlogLog adds MySpace support | As 2006 closes in, my favorite web service of the year is MyBlogLog. Despite Yahoo! acquisition rumors a few weeks ago, the company is still privately-held. If I were in the web M&A business, they’d top my list along with music social n... |
| Nov 21, 2006 | Peanut Butter redux, expensive Sonsini, Hoffman burned, Infinera & much more | (Updated) roundup of the high-stakes game going on in Silicon Valley:
Brad Garlinghouse’s Peanut Butter memo — The Yahoo executive complained about the company’s “proclivity to repeatedly hire leaders from outside.” This is noteworthy, beca... |
| Nov 19, 2006 | Yahoo goes on social networking spending spree | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| Nov 17, 2006 | MyBlogLog to be Acquired by in Acquisition Discussions with Yahoo | Update: One of Yahoo’s PR firms, OutkastPR, emailed us to say that this story is innacurate, and that Yahoo has not acquired MyBlogLog . We dug a little deeper with some insiders and it appears that Yahoo and MyBlogLog are in very early acq... |
| Nov 15, 2006 | Reader Roll Opt Out | I’ve voiced my feelings about opt in versus opt out. I am a fan of ‘user friendly opt-out’ which I defined in this post.
One of the concerns I’ve heard voiced about MyBlogLog and their reader roll is that there is no easy way to opt out of ... |
| Oct 24, 2006 | My Bet With Scott (continued) | It took me about three months to build a community for this blog with over 500 members.
I thought Techcrunch would do it in about a day when they put their reader roll on their front page.
Scott thought that it would take three days.
Well i... |
| Oct 23, 2006 | Scott and I Have A Bet | Techcrunch put the MyBlogLog reader roll on their front page today. That’s great.
I love seeing my face on Techcrunch when I go there.
I told Scott Rafer, MyBlogLog’s CEO, that I think Techcrunch will have more than my ~500 community member... |
| Oct 22, 2006 | MyBlogLog: Adding Community To Blogs | I recently signed up to MyBlogLog, which is a kind of instant social
networking system for bloggers. It enables you to set up a community around your blog and
– optionally – add statistics. More details of MyBlogLog can be found
at Techcrun... |
| Oct 21, 2006 | The Human Factor | I haven’t posted much this week about technology, the web, venture capital, etc (ie the stuff that most people read this blog for). I’ve been busy rocking out at night with my kids, watching the mets, and working on a variety of deals.
But ... |
| Oct 20, 2006 | Roundup: Digg, MyBlogLog, Sling, Trumba, Kongregate & more | Silicon Valley never sleeps. Here’s the latest tech stuff:
Digg subverted — The news site that ranks stories based on how many users submit them, is being subverted by a group called Spike the Vote. It lets its members conspire to submit ce... |
| Oct 19, 2006 | MyBlogLog: Readers Network Around Their Favorite Blogs | MyBlogLog is a social networking system for blog readers to connect and learn about each other around their favorite blogs – and for blog publishers to access detailed information about their readers. Founded in March of 2005, the site rela... |
| Aug 23, 2006 | Adding Community To The Comments | Some of you might have noticed icons/faces next to some of the comments on this blog yesterday.
That’s because the people at MyBlogLog turned on "comment/profile integration" on my blog yesterday morning. The coolest thing about t... |
| Jul 6, 2006 | AVC's Community | If you don’t read this blog via the web, you might not know about a community that’s been developing around my blog. There are 52 members so far. If you’d like to join, just go here and set up an account.
You can see the community members w... |
| Jul 3, 2006 | MyBlogLog: The social networking company wants to profile your traffic | Here comes MyBlogLog, with yet another social networking offering: A promise to let bloggers make more money by letting them see their users and their preferences.
It is the latest company of Scott Rafer, former chief executive of Feedster.... |
| Jun 18, 2006 | Is Meta Better? | I spent some time on Digg and beta.netscape.com this weekend to see how well Jason Calacanis his crew at AOL had replicated and/or improved upon Digg.
I am not a Digg fanatic, I visit it a couple times a week, vote sometimes, and submit sto... |
| May 6, 2006 | Click Tracking | One of the many things I have always loved about Brad Feld’s blog is the stats on outbound clicks you get when you "mouse over" links on his blog. I’ve said many times to myself, "i’ve got to get that thing".
So yesterda... |
