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April Fools 2008

pittfall — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:18:23 +0000

Here is a quick breakdown of April tomfoolery this year: Search Engine Roundtable becomes – Search Engine Squaretable MyBlogLog goes… Plaid! Google Introduces FrankRank, an ad ranking algorithm Google AdSense announce the launch of AdSense for conversations New for gMail – Gmail Custom Time And, of course – Google Announces Project Virgle Thanks for the [...]

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April Fools 2008

MyBlogLog Steps Up Authority for Blog Communities

pittfall — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:25:25 +0000

Today, MyBlogLog added a new feature to the online blog communities… to put it simply, a validation process to verify that you are the owner of the website and have authority over the community. Why verify? As an owner of community on MyBlogLog, the Verified check mark is like a “seal of approval.” This shows [...]

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MyBlogLog Steps Up Authority for Blog Communities

Yahoo’s Online Social Universe

pittfall — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 03:58:22 +0000

Yahoo! has been a very influential provider of social services online for quite some time. Over the last few years they have either created or purchased online social sites, here is a quick breakdown of some of the major start-ups and acquisitions: ———————————————————————————————— 2005 ———————————————————————————————— name: flickr acquired purpose: photo sharing similar to: DropShots status: [...]

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Yahoo’s Online Social Universe

MyBlogLog – SMO Tool

pittfall — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:31:31 +0000

MyBlogLog has become a very influential aspect of SMO, social media optimization. What is SMO? Social Media Optimization (SMO) is a way to optimize web sites so they would be more easily connected or interlaced with online communities and community websites, also called social media sites. Methods of SMO include adding RSS feeds, adding a [...]

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MyBlogLog – SMO Tool

New Features from MyBlogLog

pittfall — Mon, 28 May 2007 14:26:16 +0000

MyBlogLog is a portal for social networking around blogs. Since Yahoo purchased them earlier this year, not many visible changes have happened, but recently Yahoo announced that they will be focusing more attention on building MyBlogLog to be a better portal and possibly re-branding them. The first major addition to what MyBlogLog is offering has [...]

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New Features from MyBlogLog

MyBlogLog Addresses Changes

pittfall — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 23:39:01 +0000

In a recent post on the MyBlogLog Blog, Eric has announced changes to their management team, namely the exit of Scott Rafer, former CEO (before the Yahoo acquisition). When we were acquired, Scott was asked to stay on board and guide us through the transition. Now that we’re on Yahoo! hardware and deep into integration [...]

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MyBlogLog Addresses Changes

MyBlogLog Announces Community Manager

pittfall — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 03:00:35 +0000

MyBlogLog has found their community manager in Robyn Tippins of Sleepy Blogger, and they have announced her responsibilities up front: Comprehensive FAQ Integration guides Community bulletin boards Yahoo! Customer Care integration Spearhead changes to the site that cut down on confusion. I look, with great anticipation, for Robyn’s role and keeping the momentum since before [...]

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MyBlogLog Announces Community Manager

Interview with Scott Rafer, CEO of MyBlogLog

pittfall — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:04:47 +0000

Thank you for taking your time to answer questions and for providing a unique and useful tool like MyBlogLog to all of us in the blogosphere. I have been a member since mid-November of last year and have found it very useful for finding relevant bloggers with the same interests and even found others outside [...]

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Interview with Scott Rafer, CEO of MyBlogLog

Yahoo’s Brand Universe

pittfall — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 20:53:18 +0000

Yahoo has been building and buying social sites (like bix and MyBlogLog) and now, according to the New York Times, they have planned 100 websites that would bridge the gap between the Yahoo social properties and link everything together: “Yahoo said Tuesday that it planned to build individual Web sites around 100 entertainment “brands” this [...]

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Yahoo’s Brand Universe

Social Networking

pittfall — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 17:51:32 +0000

Social networking websites have been a major part of online communities for some time. MySpace and Facebook get a lot of media attention in print and television media, however, there are many other online communities that are out there. A couple of new platforms that I have become involved in: Spicy Page and My Blog [...]

The Value of Trust

pittfall — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 02:06:50 +0000

Who do you trust? The value of trust has been a great addition to organically ranking websites and the most dramatic impact has come from the social aspect of the Internet. Where do you belong? I know, in our day and age, it is hard to think that we need to label someone or something [...]

MyBlogLog and Social Networking for Blogs

pittfall — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:20:03 +0000

MyBlogLog was acquired by Yahoo! to add to their other recent acquisitions in social communities (flickr and del.icio.us). Loren Baker at Search Engine Journal recently wrote a very good piece on it an I would like to share part of her description with you: What is MyBlogLog? MyBlogLog is a hybrid between a blog analytics [...]

MyBlogLog Building

pittfall — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 23:43:00 +0000

MyBlogLog was acquired in November by Yahoo! Take a look at the Alexa data since the acquisition: Quite interesting. What is MyBlogLog: “MyBlogLog enables you to take advantage of your existing presence on the Web and ties it into communities of like-minded readers and authors to add context to the conversations in which you take [...]

Yahoo! Acquires MyBlogLog and Bix

pittfall — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 00:48:00 +0000

Yahoo! went out and picked up a couple of new additions today: Bix and MyBlogLog. MyBlogLog: MyBlogLog enables you to take advantage of your existing presence on the Web and ties it into communities of like-minded readers and authors to add context to the conversations in which you take part. MyBlogLog.com Translation: Take your blog [...]