January « 2007 « The MyBlogLog Blog

9Jan/07

Operational Limits of Humans

I'm filing this under "Bugs." The whole team is moving to California this week. I'm filling in for Eric for customer service until Monday. Please forgive us any delays and lapses.

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8Jan/07

The Jig is Up — MyBlogLog joins Yahoo!

Todd, John, Steve, Scott and I are pleased to announce that Yahoo! has brought MyBlogLog into the fold. I've been drafting a post about this for the better part of a week and it's just not happening. No matter how hard I try, there's just too much here that I can't yet put into words. But we wanted to post this as soon as we could and give you the heads up, just as always. I promise to provide more details as things calm down, but for now, here's the Cliffs Notes version:

MyBlogLog is becoming a part of Yahoo! We're all moving to San Francisco. We officially bleed Purple and Yellow (although unofficially, I'll always bleed Orange and Blue - Go Gators! National champions in basketball AND football, yo!).

Yahoo! is going to put loads of resources into MyBlogLog and help us roll out a ton of new features. Plus, we're moving to their infrastructure, which should help with those occasional slowdowns.

We are not going to become one of those corporate casualties that never make another step forward. We are hard at work on the custom communities and soon everyone will be able to skin their community to look like their own blog or site.

We owe so much of this to you, for becoming passionate about MyBlogLog and posting about us, building widgets on top of our service and just taking time out of your busy life to connect with other people on your favorite sites and blogs.

Special thanks go out (what is this, the freakin' Oscars) to a couple of key people: Josh Kopelman for originally asking why the heck social networks were stuck on a single site, Fred Wilson and Brad Feld for becoming true believers and Andy Baio for inspiring me to create a link blog about this time two years ago, without which I never would have asked Todd to figure out how to track my links.

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4Jan/07

We would hate to be accused of alienating the cute chicks

So right before MyBlogLog left for the holidays, Philip Kaplan, aka Pud from F*cked Company, sent me an email asking for larger pictures on profiles. He was disappointed that he couldn't see more of the cute girls who were swinging by his blog. I mentioned that we were trying to find an elegant way to keep people from having to upload their pictures a second (or third, or fourth...) time. And this is what he had to say:

seems to me only us geeks would care about a more efficient way of uploading
pics (from other services, etc.)

And then:

pps- you are alienating cute chicks.. seriously, the only reason they join
social sites (myspace, mybloglog) is to show off their hotness.
seriously...they are totally competitive that way. pics are a must..

Well, doesn't that just put everything in perspective.

While I'm not qualified to speak to the motivations of the fairer sex, it did get me thinking. MyBlogLog is dedicated to being as transparent as possible to our members; this is true. And I still think that it's worth finding a solution that allows our members to take advantage of the pictures that they have posted elsewhere. But, thought I, maybe we should just get something up in the meantime for the people who cared about it. People like Pud. And in all of two hours, Steve had member pics up and running as a holiday present for you.

So get to it already. Just look for the link under your profile pic. Make Pud and Steve proud. Everybody's got a little hotness in them and we want to see it!

Happy New Year, everyone.

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