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Yahoo! IDs – Another Milestone For MyBlogLog

After weeks of warnings, the Bay Bridge, that connects the East Bay (where I live) with San Francisco, was closed for four days this weekend.  They spent days cutting out an old section and seamlessly replacing that section with a more stable portion of bridge, durable enough to stand up to a San Francisco earthquake.  When Ian and I were talking today, we realized that the situation we were experiencing here in our office was similar.

Our engineers have spent the last few weeks hunched over their terminals with the sole goal of integrating Yahoo! IDs with our MyBlogLog logins.  With no service outages and no adverse effects to our customers in that time, they've built a new road for our logins, that we can just 'jump over to' in the next few days.  You can't imagine how proud we are of our spectacular geeks.  (sniff)

So, without further beating around the bush, I want to let you know that later this week we will be merging all MyBlogLog accounts with their owner’s Yahoo! accounts.  We are doing this to ease login issues here at MyBlogLog (almost 20 hours of my time each week) and because it will greatly increase the integration possibilities for MyBlogLog with other Yahoo! properties.

The only bugger is that you will have to re-upload your avatar image (groan).  We’re going to be using the Yahoo! image uploader so it’s imperative that we save a larger, higher resolution image from each of our members.  The benefits, even above having an easier image upload tool, are that your images will not only look better, but will load faster (Hooyah! even speedier Recent Reader widgets!).  And, since each of the new uploads will be eyed by a customer service agent, you will see fewer 'racy' images on avatars.  Could this get any better?  But wait, there's more... 

Now you can choose to keep your current name, use your Yahoo! name or even change your screen name completely.  And, no longer can only one person be a name.  If you want to be Sam, regardless of whether or not there is already a Sam, you can still be Sam.  Nicknames can be changed at will, and nicknames, just like in real life, can be shared by many people.  No more 'Change Screen Name Verified nonsense...  Reinvent yourself as often as you like!

In all seriousness, the migration should be relatively painless, but we do expect some snags.  If you have any questions or if problems arise, we’ll be here to help via customer service.  If you can’t find the answer on the Help pages, please don’t hesitate to email customer service. 

Thanks for your patience while we are improving.  The end result will be a better MyBlogLog.