Comments on: MyBlogLog Going Steadily Downhill

By: chris

chris — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:19:46 +0000

What I hate about both of the is the time on site and Bounce rate most people just go to your profile and say nice blog they don’t even mention one of your posts and think you will visit them.They should also do something about the site navigation as it’s crap on both of them.Plus all the Spammy comments and Strange Requests from Publishers.

By: Weight Watchers Recipes

Weight Watchers Recipes — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:40:55 +0000

I always use Blogcatalog and I am always satisfied with it.

By: Nathan Ketsdever

Nathan Ketsdever — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:12:21 +0000

I agree that Blog Catalog is doing a lot of good stuff. And its community features (groups and a central forum) are arguably better than MyBlogLog.

The opening of the API looks to provide a way for MyBlogLog to take ground back. However, if that will a) increase traffic or b) increase community features remains to be seen. I think the area where it could have an impact is in the mashup space.

I know a local firm here in Nashville Raven created a community widget to put on your blog that looks nice–but beyond better looking widgets that marginally increase community I haven’t seen much.

Thanks for the stumble!

By: Fitness Friend

Fitness Friend — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:07:21 +0000

There are too many social media and wiki type sites out there. It’s becoming deluted. I hadn’t heard of Blogcatelog…I’ll take a look. Thanks.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:55:59 +0000

Martina, I’m guessing Yahoo bought MyBlogLog for the tracking stats. Even beyond what we see on the stats page for our blog they have the theoretical ability to track every single click we make as long as we stay logged into our MBL account.

Whether they actually track all that on the Yahoo side is something I don’t know. But they probably could if they wanted to. And that would tell them a ton about our web habits, which would be well worth the millions they paid for the company.

Jochim, I suspect people will find different value in either service. But there is no denying that Blogcatalog’s popularity is growing.

John, Marketing is something that I think most small business owners could benefit from understanding better. I know I sure could. I’ll be checking out what you have to say over at your place.

By: John F

John F — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:40:51 +0000

Thanks for the heads up … I was just about to set up MBL.
BTW, now that my small biz marketing blog is on track – thanks to you – it might be of interest to some of your readers.

By: Jochim

Jochim — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 10:49:48 +0000

I always use Blogcatalog and I am always satisfied with it.

By: Martina

Martina — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:31:04 +0000

Why was MyBlogLog sold to Yahoo? It was earlier so good.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:18:41 +0000

It’s not that I’m complaining Eric. I sure as heck didn’t create something as valuable what you’ve done coming up with MyBlogLog. I’ve been happy to benefit from the work you did.

And like I said. I’m looking forward to seeing where your creativity takes you next with your new venture.

By: Eric Marcoullier

Eric Marcoullier — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:01:51 +0000

Chris – “Active” is a funny word when discussing mybloglog. The whole point of the service was that we added value without you having to do anything explicit. As long as someone is registered and have a cookie set, they are showing up on the tens of thousands of sites that have the reader roll installed, passively sharing their interests with others. And even if a blogger does’t check out the details of the people in their widget, they still gain a tremendous sense of validation by seeing faces on their page.