MyBlogLog Meetup in New York
Eric, Todd, and I will be in New York next week, and we're holding the first-ever MyBlogLog meetup! Please pass the evite [URL fixed] around to the people who will appreciate it the most.
Our site is about people discovering who loves the same sites they do.
It's not nearly so efficient in person, but the resolution is so much
better.
Please join us next Friday a couple blocks west of Union Square.
MyBlogLog Meetup in New York
Eric, Todd, and I will be in New York next week, and we're holding the first-ever MyBlogLog meetup! Please pass the evite [URL fixed] around to the people who will appreciate it the most.
Our site is about people discovering who loves the same sites they do.
It's not nearly so efficient in person, but the resolution is so much
better.
Please join us next Friday a couple blocks west of Union Square.
Faulty hard drive blamed for weekend site outages (news at 11)
Over the weekend a hard drive on one of our database servers failed, causing a number of people to be unable to access their stats. Since the server itself was running fine, we didn't receive any pages, so the problem occurred for nearly half the day.
First the bad news: about a quarter of our users will find their stats significantly lower than usual for the weekend. This is because during this outage (as well as a similar but less noticeable problem on Saturday) we were unable to capture stats for the affected server group's users.
Now for the good news: the timeouts worked perfectly and none of our users' sites were impacted at all. Even though a key link in the tracking chain was broken, a spot check of several of our users showed that the failovers we've set up worked and no one experienced any slowdown.
As badges and widgets and plugins (oh my) continue to proliferate , sites are increasingly at the mercy of sites who provide bling for their page. The services that want to last beyond 2006 need to recognize that they are a guest on their users' sites and need to behave accordingly. As I write this, I realize I should write a longer post about this, so for now I'll just sign off by saying that we're very cognizant of our tenuous position on your pages and continue to improve our ability to deliver great functionality with a tiny footprint.
RSS and Consumer Web Applications
Channeled through John Heilemann, Martin Nisenholtz lays out the numbers about RSS and Web2.0. I've been an RSS true believer since Fresher jumped on the new standard in 1999. However, consumers just want web sites they can surf. Used as infrastructure, RSS and other web services make those sites better, but that's the extent of web services' consumer-relevance for now.
And even RSS newsfeeds, which the Times adopted early, are still "a
niche," Nisenholtz says. (In June, RSS feeds generated 12.2 million
pageviews for the site out of a U.S. total of nearly 295 million.) "RSS
is still very techie," he says. "Most people outside the business are
totally unaware of it."
For Nisenholtz, making all this stuff
appealing and accessible is a real challenge. "We touch 25 or 26
million people a month," he says, "and a very minimal number of them
are technologically savvy.... Our median age online is 44 or 45 years
old. So we have to find ways to bring people into the loop who don't
know what a tag cloud is."
The more crowded the Web2.0 bubble gets, the more important it's going to be to remember what users are actually willing to use. For MyBlogLog, helping you find bloggers and readers that you'll love must remain as easy as clicking on a face. All sorts of great web services for developers will support and emerge from that goal, but click'n'surf, click'n'surf is all we can ask of our users.
[via fred]
Comment Profiles are beginning to hit their stride
I wanted to give everyone a quick update on the comment profiles since we're getting so many inquiries. We're getting mighty close for primetime on Typepad blogs, and we're making loads of progress with Wordpress and MT blogs.
We've opted to turn off the comment header for the time being, because while it's a useful feature (explaining that you can get your profile in the comments by signing up for MyBlogLog), it doubles the layout challenges and it should really be in the native language. So look for it as a configurable option in the future once we've got the comment profiles on cruise control.
Here's a list of who's using the comment profiles right now, by platform. If you want to get on the shortlist and be the envy of all your blogging buddies, just post a comment below andsay you want in.
Typepad:
- A VC
- Consuming Ambitions
- DamDam's World
- Evidence in Motion
- Loic Le Meur blog (and in English)
- MyBlogBlog
- RVA Business
- Software Only
- This is Going to be Big
Wordpress:
Movable Type:
A much belated call-out for an excellent post.
One of our power users, Theory, posted an excellent in-depth article about MyBlogLog last month. It's a wicked late post, but if you have a moment and would like to know how to best take advantage of MyBlogLog, head over to Theory's blog and let him give you the 411 on MyBlogLog.
A much belated call-out for an excellent post.
One of our power users, Theory, posted an excellent in-depth article about MyBlogLog last month. It's a wicked late post, but if you have a moment and would like to know how to best take advantage of MyBlogLog, head over to Theory's blog and let him give you the 411 on MyBlogLog.
We’re close to beta testing comment / profile integration — wanna help?
Some of our most sucessful users have found that regular mentions in
their blog posts has kept their community highly visible to their
readers. Meanwhile, we're actively working on new ways of integrating your community with your web site, in classic MyBlogLog hands-free style. The more ways we can automatically reinforce your community, the more time you can focus on making a kick-ass site based upon the great user information generated by your community members.
Shortly, we'll be rolling out automatic profile / comment integration. Anyone who has a MyBlogLog account can have their picture and profile link show up next to their comments on your blog. We've got a number of friends at Six Apart so we're integrating with Typepad first. Other blogs and comment providers will follow shortly.
If you have a TypePad-hosted blog and would like to take part in the beta test, post a comment below and let me know. We'll get back to you within the next two weeks with information on how to turn this new feature on and see how it works with your comments and readers. Also, if you are at one of the other blog providers and want to see yourself at the front of the queue for future comment integration, drop me a line at eric@mybloglog.com and we'll get you hooked up.
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