Comments on: MyBlogLog To Turn Social Aggregator http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/2008/02/16/mybloglog-to-turn-social-aggregator/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:58:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Socializing At SXSW | Social Media Explorer http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/2008/02/16/mybloglog-to-turn-social-aggregator/#comment-1148 Socializing At SXSW | Social Media Explorer Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:10:49 +0000 http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/2008/02/16/mybloglog-to-turn-social-aggregator/#comment-1148 [...] Marcoullier and Todd Sampson, creators of MyBlogLog, who were both interested and kind enough to call me to task on my reaction to MyBlogLog’s lifestreaming functionality post from a few weeks [...] [...] Marcoullier and Todd Sampson, creators of MyBlogLog, who were both interested and kind enough to call me to task on my reaction to MyBlogLog’s lifestreaming functionality post from a few weeks [...]

]]> By: MyBlogLog “New With Me” Incubating for a Year Says Former Co-Founder | Lifestream Blog http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/2008/02/16/mybloglog-to-turn-social-aggregator/#comment-1064 MyBlogLog “New With Me” Incubating for a Year Says Former Co-Founder | Lifestream Blog Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:01:04 +0000 http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/2008/02/16/mybloglog-to-turn-social-aggregator/#comment-1064 [...] just came across this post at the Social Media Explorer where Jason Falls puts his spin on the new Lifestreaming functionality coming to MyBlogLog very [...] [...] just came across this post at the Social Media Explorer where Jason Falls puts his spin on the new Lifestreaming functionality coming to MyBlogLog very [...]

]]> By: Jason Falls http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/2008/02/16/mybloglog-to-turn-social-aggregator/#comment-1054 Jason Falls Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:45:18 +0000 http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/2008/02/16/mybloglog-to-turn-social-aggregator/#comment-1054 Linda, thanks for stopping by and for saying so. I hope you find MyBlogLog as helpful in generating interest, traffic and new friends as I have! Linda, thanks for stopping by and for saying so. I hope you find MyBlogLog as helpful in generating interest, traffic and new friends as I have!

]]> By: Linda Sherman http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/2008/02/16/mybloglog-to-turn-social-aggregator/#comment-1053 Linda Sherman Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:29:13 +0000 http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/2008/02/16/mybloglog-to-turn-social-aggregator/#comment-1053 Jason, I appreciated this story. I am new to BlogLog and this is useful. Jason, I appreciated this story. I am new to BlogLog and this is useful.

]]> By: Jason Falls http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/2008/02/16/mybloglog-to-turn-social-aggregator/#comment-1044 Jason Falls Sun, 17 Feb 2008 02:15:07 +0000 http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/2008/02/16/mybloglog-to-turn-social-aggregator/#comment-1044 Todd - Thanks for stopping by to comment. Agreed that what the site ultimately does with that lifestream is what will matter. I wish you the best in doing something cool with it and as a user, I'll be there to watch. Thanks as well for a great site. I've found many a friend in the blog world through MyBlogLog. Todd - Thanks for stopping by to comment. Agreed that what the site ultimately does with that lifestream is what will matter. I wish you the best in doing something cool with it and as a user, I’ll be there to watch.

Thanks as well for a great site. I’ve found many a friend in the blog world through MyBlogLog.

]]> By: Todd Sampson http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/2008/02/16/mybloglog-to-turn-social-aggregator/#comment-1043 Todd Sampson Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:19:44 +0000 http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/2008/02/16/mybloglog-to-turn-social-aggregator/#comment-1043 Thanks for the post Jason. And thanks Eric for chiming in so quickly about what MyBlogLog is working on. As Eric said, while this may have been a bit revolutionary if we had launched it in April of last year, today is has become part of the basic Social DNA of the Web. (I am work on a full post about all of those components that I see, but it isn't quite ready for prime-time.) And, if we are giving credit, we should probably all give thanks to Facebook for launching this craze in the first place. In the end, every site is going to have a user's life-stream available as a tool to help make the user's experience better. What a site ultimately does with the life-stream is what will matter. Cheers, Todd Thanks for the post Jason. And thanks Eric for chiming in so quickly about what MyBlogLog is working on. As Eric said, while this may have been a bit revolutionary if we had launched it in April of last year, today is has become part of the basic Social DNA of the Web. (I am work on a full post about all of those components that I see, but it isn’t quite ready for prime-time.) And, if we are giving credit, we should probably all give thanks to Facebook for launching this craze in the first place.

In the end, every site is going to have a user’s life-stream available as a tool to help make the user’s experience better. What a site ultimately does with the life-stream is what will matter.

Cheers,
Todd

]]> By: Jason Falls http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/2008/02/16/mybloglog-to-turn-social-aggregator/#comment-1041 Jason Falls Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:40:33 +0000 http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/2008/02/16/mybloglog-to-turn-social-aggregator/#comment-1041 Eric, Thanks for the quick response. Perhaps insinuating a "rip-off" was too strong. I certainly don't mean to discount the talent and hard work the developers and engineers have put in. However, I was merely asking the question. You might agree (though I'll let you determine that certainly) that Yahoo doesn't have a track record recently of being ontop of the game. Yes, more places than Yahoo are morphing ideas from talented independent folks and shaping them into their own, but that's the question that struck me. Kudos to MyBlogLog and its crew for building out a next step. My apologies for any insinuation that something shady was going on. I just like to see the innovative talents like that of the Profilactic crew rewarded rather than duplicated. My two cents. Feel free to continue the discussion. Eric,

Thanks for the quick response. Perhaps insinuating a “rip-off” was too strong. I certainly don’t mean to discount the talent and hard work the developers and engineers have put in. However, I was merely asking the question. You might agree (though I’ll let you determine that certainly) that Yahoo doesn’t have a track record recently of being ontop of the game. Yes, more places than Yahoo are morphing ideas from talented independent folks and shaping them into their own, but that’s the question that struck me.

Kudos to MyBlogLog and its crew for building out a next step. My apologies for any insinuation that something shady was going on. I just like to see the innovative talents like that of the Profilactic crew rewarded rather than duplicated.

My two cents. Feel free to continue the discussion.

]]> By: Eric Marcoullier http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/2008/02/16/mybloglog-to-turn-social-aggregator/#comment-1040 Eric Marcoullier Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:28:51 +0000 http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/2008/02/16/mybloglog-to-turn-social-aggregator/#comment-1040 Sorry for the second post, but I wanted to respond to one other question. Yeah, this is the direction that all social sites are moving. This is what data portability is all about -- I want to take the stuff I do over here and display it over there. From a selfish perspective, socnets are realizing that they are just one of several places that their users live online and it's best to offer a view into the rest of their members' lives, if only to keep people from leaving when they want to know what else is up with someone. As my co-founder Todd recently wrote: The Social DNA of the large, closed social networks has started to weave its way into nearly every site on the Internet. The idea of distributed social networks, which MyBlogLog was founded on, has officially hit the tipping point. http://www.toddsampson.com/2008/02/10/distributed-social-networks-have-tipped/ Sorry for the second post, but I wanted to respond to one other question.

Yeah, this is the direction that all social sites are moving. This is what data portability is all about — I want to take the stuff I do over here and display it over there.

From a selfish perspective, socnets are realizing that they are just one of several places that their users live online and it’s best to offer a view into the rest of their members’ lives, if only to keep people from leaving when they want to know what else is up with someone.

As my co-founder Todd recently wrote: The Social DNA of the large, closed social networks has started to weave its way into nearly every site on the Internet. The idea of distributed social networks, which MyBlogLog was founded on, has officially hit the tipping point. http://www.toddsampson.com/2008/02/10/distributed-social-networks-have-tipped/

]]> By: Eric Marcoullier http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/2008/02/16/mybloglog-to-turn-social-aggregator/#comment-1039 Eric Marcoullier Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:17:25 +0000 http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/2008/02/16/mybloglog-to-turn-social-aggregator/#comment-1039 Jason -- I'd like to address a couple of your points as the co-founder of MyBlogLog and a FORMER MBL/YHOO employee. We hade the first version of New With Me circulating in private beta in late April of 2007. We were not allowed to launch because it was apparently in conflict with another project in development elsewhere in the organization that was due to launch a year later. One of many reasons I left :) It appears that Yahoo is finally (and perhaps belatedly) shaking off its culture of failure to launch, and the team has finally successfully lobbied to launch the product. They kept the faith while I could not. As such, it's rather insulting to the team to suggest that it's something that they just ripped off. There are a number of great aggregators out there (Profilactic is one of the best), Hopefully MBL's feed will find a warm reception in conjunction with all the other services it provides. Jason — I’d like to address a couple of your points as the co-founder of MyBlogLog and a FORMER MBL/YHOO employee.

We hade the first version of New With Me circulating in private beta in late April of 2007. We were not allowed to launch because it was apparently in conflict with another project in development elsewhere in the organization that was due to launch a year later. One of many reasons I left :)

It appears that Yahoo is finally (and perhaps belatedly) shaking off its culture of failure to launch, and the team has finally successfully lobbied to launch the product. They kept the faith while I could not.

As such, it’s rather insulting to the team to suggest that it’s something that they just ripped off. There are a number of great aggregators out there (Profilactic is one of the best), Hopefully MBL’s feed will find a warm reception in conjunction with all the other services it provides.

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