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It’s Invitational

Now that we're hooked into the Yahoo backplane, we can take advantage of a couple of things to make things a little easier for you. Tonight we released a new invite feature which takes advantage of the Yahoo Address Book and pulls down your Yahoo address book entries so you can send out invitations to all your friends.

At the bottom of the checklist of names and addresses, we also search the MyBlogLog member database to see if anyone in your address book is already a MyBlogLog member but not connected to you. Each of us on the team here were suprised to find a few long lost friends in there already using MyBlogLog and we didn't even know it. Kind of a "what are you doing here?" moment.

We'll update the Help documents in a few weeks while we give time for this feature to settle in but for the time being, here are some things you should know:

1. You must be logged into Yahoo to use this feature. MyBlogLog will then access your Yahoo address book to get the list of contacts that you can invite.
2. If someone isn't in your address book, you can send up to five additional invitations by entering in their email address yourself. You can only have five outstanding invitations at any time. As people accept your invitation and sign up to MyBlogLog, these spaces will free up again.
3. If your friends have not accepted your invitation to join after two days, you'll have the opportunity to "nudge" them with a follow-up message.
4. If they have not accepted after five days, their name will be removed and their space will free up again so you can invite someone else a little more responsive to your overtures.

Let us know how it works and, as always, if you find any kinks, let us know in the comments below!