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MyBlogLog: We know what’s hotDecember 10 2008

It’s no secret that MyBlogLog has its finger on the pulse of the online world. With over 450,000 blog communities and roughly 645,000 members, along with the countless services shared, the amount of information we keep an eye on is crazy. Being the data junkies that we are, we have been trying to cook up a way that we can share all this information with you!

We started out first by integrating topics into your New With Me stream, which of course led us to include your personal tags as the topics that power your New With My World. Pretty much, tell us what you are into and MyBlogLog will go out and scour our entire database of tweets, pictures, blog posts and listened tracks to give you everything we can find.

Now it’s a pretty big place out there on the internet, with conversations and activity happening everywhere. How do you find out what everyone is talking about? What are the hottest topics that got everyone a buzz? Take a trip over to the Topics tab and take a peek.

Kick back and watch your online neighborhood stroll byNovember 14 2008

Your MyBlogLog New With My Neighborhood just got a bit busier! Now in addition to streaming updates with your friends tweets, photos, bookmarks and videos, we flipped the switch and added recent blog posts from your MyBlogLog joined communities into your online neighborhood as well. And since this information auto updates; go ahead and grab a cold one, sit back, and watch your internet neighborhood scroll by

Think of it like your own personal neighborhood newsletter, updating you on the events and buzz going on around in your internet hometown. Just another way that MyBlogLog makes your online world feel more intimate.

MyBlogLog and Zemanta; the 2 most necessary services in your blogger toolboxOctober 29 2008

How many times have you sat down in your favorite chair, ready to write the epic blog post, only to loose steam halfway through? Seriously, that happens to me all the time, before Zemanta that is.

Start out with an idea, and Zemanta will take over the heavy work by helping you find photos, tags and related links that will take your basic blog post to the next level.

So it was only natural that MyBlogLog and Zemanta would hook up and bring you the hotness. Check out your blog community page, and right there, seamlessly blended in with the RSS feed is Reblog:

Go ahead, go back and browse through your MyBlogLog communities and check up on your favorite blogs. See a blog post that grabs your eye? Clicking Reblog will capture the post that caught your fancy and set you up use it as the inspiration for your own blog update! Pick a quote; add some tags, maybe a photo or two and bingo! There’s your post. Easy peasy lemon squeezy ;)

Making blogging social and turning up the volume for online conversation? Just another way we hel

Signing off. Peace, OutOctober 13 2008

Some of you have already heard but last Friday was my last day with Yahoo and the MyBlogLog team. An opportunity to point myself in a new direction came my way that was just to compelling to pass up. I want to thank you all for your support during my last year and a half with MyBlogLog. I have had a blast learning from you and it's been amazing experience working with the MyBlogLog team. They are a rare mix of roll-up-your-sleeves-and-just-get-it-done super-brains that have been cranking out new and innovative features on such a regular basis that constantly exceeds expectations. You guys are rock stars.

I am riding off into the sunset but the product is in good hands.

Tilly, our ever bubbly Community Manager, will continue to be your regularly scheduled hostess for all things MyBlogLog. She's been hard at work bringing the Yahoo Customer Care folks up to speed on how we do things so that she can have a little help from people that truly can help.

Todd will take t

Unplanned Service OutageSeptember 26 2008

1:03 pm

We are experiencing technical difficulties at this time and are working to get to the bottom of it. Symptoms include:

• Recent Reader is blank, no faces.
• New with Me, New with My Neighborhood, and New with My World lifestreams are down.
• Faces are not showing up on community member, contact listings or friender.

I'll refresh this post with updates.

2:55 pm

We're bringing things back up. Faces should be flowing back in and we're re-generating the lifestreams. We're sweeping up the shattered glass.

3:10 pm

Unfortunately, due to the outage, any traffic to your blog between 1pm and 2:45 or so was not recorded and cannot be recovered. Sorry everyone, we'll try to suck less next time.