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Weekly Roundup — April 16

Happy Holidays, if you celebrate them.  Happy weekend, if you don't.  It's been a snazzy week for the MyBlogLog crew and I wanted to take a moment to point out some of the highlights.

First off, we've got some awesome new members of the MyBlogLog community.  Egotastic, one of MyBlogLog's favorite celebrity blogs, is using us to see where their massive amounts of traffic are headed.  Also, technology blog network QJ.net are running our code, even representing the ClickTag stylee!  Globally, a group of Indian students, a guy living in Japan and a Frenchman named Eric are just a few of the hundreds of international blogger who have signed up over the last seven days.

We're continuing to beta our RSS delivery of blog stats and things are going really well.  A number of our high-traffic sites are now receiving hourly updates on their click and referrer data, sent directly to their favorite feedreader.  If you're a member blog with more than 500 views a day and would like to get in on the beta, let me know!

Lastly, we unveiled our Google Maps mashup last week and received an incredibly positive response.  The MyBlogLog team poured their heart and soul into the new service and you'll be hearing a lot more about it here over the next week.

Now, I'm off to go play some ultimate frisbee and hang out with my family!  Have a great rest of your weekend and see you back here next week.

Weekly Roundup — April 16

Happy Holidays, if you celebrate them.  Happy weekend, if you don't.  It's been a snazzy week for the MyBlogLog crew and I wanted to take a moment to point out some of the highlights.

First off, we've got some awesome new members of the MyBlogLog community.  Egotastic, one of MyBlogLog's favorite celebrity blogs, is using us to see where their massive amounts of traffic are headed.  Also, technology blog network QJ.net are running our code, even representing the ClickTag stylee!  Globally, a group of Indian students, a guy living in Japan and a Frenchman named Eric are just a few of the hundreds of international blogger who have signed up over the last seven days.

We're continuing to beta our RSS delivery of blog stats and things are going really well.  A number of our high-traffic sites are now receiving hourly updates on their click and referrer data, sent directly to their favorite feedreader.  If you're a member blog with more than 500 views a day and would like to get in on the beta, let me know!

Lastly, we unveiled our Google Maps mashup last week and received an incredibly positive response.  The MyBlogLog team poured their heart and soul into the new service and you'll be hearing a lot more about it here over the next week.

Now, I'm off to go play some ultimate frisbee and hang out with my family!  Have a great rest of your weekend and see you back here next week.

Power curves in action

We've started having a look at the data we're generating in conjunction with our readers and the results are pretty fascinating.  For instance we've been playing around with geographic data based upon IP addresses in preparation for Jeff Clavier's cool SDForum Search SIG event next Tuesday.  Scott Rafer is going to attend and show off a fun mashup we're working on and the data going into it is too cool.

We are now reporting on blog usage by readers in 137 countries across the over 14,000 blogs we monitor.  We've known for ages that we're big in Japan (tonight) but it's exciting and a bit humbling to find that we're now reaching folks in Iran, Slovakia, Maldavia and Namibia.

As expected, there's a power curve involved here -- the top 10% of the countries result in nearly 84% of the traffic.  But this represents an outstanding opportunity moving forward.  If you've got a blog that caters to international readers, sign up for a MyBlogLog account already.  We're going to be doing some exciting reporting in the near future and there's an opportunity to make your and your readers' voices heard.

(Tags: MyBlogLog | Global | Search SIG | Jeff Clavier | Scott Rafer)

Power curves in action

We've started having a look at the data we're generating in conjunction with our readers and the results are pretty fascinating.  For instance we've been playing around with geographic data based upon IP addresses in preparation for Jeff Clavier's cool SDForum Search SIG event next Tuesday.  Scott Rafer is going to attend and show off a fun mashup we're working on and the data going into it is too cool.

We are now reporting on blog usage by readers in 137 countries across the over 14,000 blogs we monitor.  We've known for ages that we're big in Japan (tonight) but it's exciting and a bit humbling to find that we're now reaching folks in Iran, Slovakia, Maldavia and Namibia.

As expected, there's a power curve involved here -- the top 10% of the countries result in nearly 84% of the traffic.  But this represents an outstanding opportunity moving forward.  If you've got a blog that caters to international readers, sign up for a MyBlogLog account already.  We're going to be doing some exciting reporting in the near future and there's an opportunity to make your and your readers' voices heard.

(Tags: MyBlogLog | Global | Search SIG | Jeff Clavier | Scott Rafer)