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MyBlogLog About Me Widget

MyBlogLog is all about connecting people to sites and each other. We strive to make the world wide web a little smaller, a little less anonymous. When you leave your avatar behind on a site that features the MyBlogLog Recent Reader widget, you're not only letting others know that you've been there, you're also leaving a pointer to your MyBlogLog profile where people can learn more about you, sites you author, and other services that you use on the web.

This gets back to something I've written about before, a vision that MyBlogLog can serve as a Domain Name Service (DNS) for people. DNS is a giant, distributed look-up table which turns a machine-readable IP address into something you and I can remember. DNS servers allow us to type yahoo.com into a browser and get to the page at 69.147.90.91.

In this same way, MyBlogLog has always provided an area in your Account page to store pointers to your various profiles that exist across the web. We first made these pointers available as an HTML signature file you could use in email. Based on the positive reception to the "Web 2.0 email signature," Manny Miller, the engineer who put that together, turned it around into a full-fledged widget that you can put onto your site.

There are tons of options on the About Me Widget configuration page. We've got a couple of default color schemes but if you click around the color field you can change pretty much everything you see. You can also select how much or how little you want to show on your About Me widget. Once you like what you see, grab the javascript and paste it into your side bar just like you have done with with Recent Reader widget (we made it the same 180px width so it'll line up nicely).  To access the configuration screen, just login in, click "Edit Profile" and you'll find it under the "Badge" tab.

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