September « 2008 « The MyBlogLog Blog

26Sep/089

Unplanned Service Outage

1:03 pm

We are experiencing technical difficulties at this time and are working to get to the bottom of it. Symptoms include:

Recent Reader is blank, no faces.
New with Me, New with My Neighborhood, and New with My World lifestreams are down.
Faces are not showing up on community member, contact listings or friender.

I'll refresh this post with updates.

2:55 pm

We're bringing things back up. Faces should be flowing back in and we're re-generating the lifestreams. We're sweeping up the shattered glass.

3:10 pm

Unfortunately, due to the outage, any traffic to your blog between 1pm and 2:45 or so was not recorded and cannot be recovered. Sorry everyone, we'll try to suck less next time.

Filed under: Service Updates 9 Comments

15Sep/0811

Services update: MyBlogLog welcomes Brightkite, Slideshare and Reddit

I am thrilled to announce the debut of Brightkite and Slideshare on the MyBlogLog services list! Now if you update Brightkite with your location, photos or comments, or if you share a presentation using Slideshare we will display those events in your lifestream.

Slideshare_4

Brightkite is still an invite only beta service, so for those of you that are not yet signed up, don’t worry, your girl Tilly got your back. Leave us a comment with your email address and we can get you access into the Brightkite community. Once you’re in, all you got to do is send Brightkite an update with your location, either on the web or via SMS, and they will update where you are and alert you to the people that have checked in around you. Post pictures, add comments, and find out what’s happening based on your location!

Brightkite_4

And if you are a member of the Reddit community we have love for you too! Drop your Reddit username into the services page, and for now we will keep ahold of that as a placemark, but in the next upcoming weeks, you will start to see your links and comments show up as well.

Filed under: New Features 11 Comments

9Sep/089

MyBlogLog is Hiring

Do you like seeing your handiwork featured on hundreds of thousands of blogs? Do you thrive off discovering the shared insights of a distributed global network of voracious blog readers? Are you interested in crafting a UI that will help our members make sense of the thousands of tweets, photos, music tracks, and web links that they share with the world? Did you enjoy connect-a-dot drawings as a kid and seeing patterns emerge from the chaos? More importantly, did you color outside the lines?

We're looking for a few hotshot front end engineers help us build the next generation, social analytics dashboard. We're a small, rapid deployment team operating within the larger Yahoo! organization that gets things done. Shred a Photoshop file, wireframe in CSS, bolt on distributed web services - idea on Monday, production by Thursday, this is us.

The position is based in downtown San Francisco.

Responsibilities include:

* Coding and testing new PHP/MySQL applications
* Architecting, coding and testing new JavaScript based site widgets
* Testing and improving existing MyBlogLog sites and widgets

Minimum Job Qualifications:

* 5+ years experience in PHP/MySQL development
* 4+ years experience JavaScript/DOM programming
* Strong knowledge of security best practices.
* Strong work ethic and desire to help contribute to the future success of MyBlogLog

Preferred Job Qualifications:

* Entrepreneurial spirit to run in a startup within a larger organization
* Experience in agile, test-driven software development
* A passion for emerging technology

Software Development Engineer
Senior Software Development Engineer