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Disqus and Intense Debate added to MyBlogLog

Hey everyone! We just added fields for you to add your Disqus and Intense Debate IDs to your profile's Services tab. We're just collecting names for now which will add the icon & pointer on your MyBlogLog profile page, email signature and About Me widgets. We are building support to include your comments into your New with Me page in the near future.

Stay tuned.

MyBlogLog gets you Buzzin’ and LinkedIn

One of the best parts about being a part of the Yahoo family is not only the free snacks and soda pop, but we also get dibs on all the great content they provide! The first of many Yahoo services that MyBlogLog now has the chance to re-syndicate is from Yahoo Buzz. Buzz gives you the opportunity to either “Buzz up” or “Buzz Down” interesting links and news stories, and depending on the ranking, it may be featured on the Yahoo homepage! Enabling Yahoo updates from your MyBlogLog service page will broadcast all the stories that you have been buzzing about!

Head on over to your MyBlogLog services page and flip the switch to enable Yahoo updates. This will tell Yahoo that you have given MyBlogLog the a-ok to pull in and re-publish all the services Yahoo offers to be broadcast. To edit the Yahoo services that you wish to broadcast, you will have to visit their updates page and pick and choose from there. At this time, we are only pulling in Yahoo Buzz, but stay tuned for more services popping up soon!

Not to be outshined is the addition of LinkedIn updates to your New With Me stream that also goes live today. Plug in your LinkedIn ID to the Services page and we will pick up any changes to your Headline (the only public data they currently syndicate) on our weekly Sunday evening pull and let the world know when you got that promotion!

MyBlogLog, a long overdue site redesign!

You know in the movies when they get the nerdy girl to untie her ponytail and remove her glasses? All of a sudden she’s the hottest chick at school? Yeah, it’s kinda like that. We always knew MyBlogLog was one hot little number, now she’s got the look to prove it.

Don’t worry, we still got all the features that you can't live without; your stats, your widgets and, of course, the New With stuff. Only now everything is framed with shiny shadows and rounded edges! Also notice that on your profile we have moved the most recent visitors module, up on top, not down below the fold so you can quickly see who's been checking you out.

Just for funsies, you should head over and check out the welcome screen for logged out or unregistered users. We went and completely upgraded the featured blogs by scrolling through the top 20 sites (based on number of members), and displaying a more straightforward message about what we offer; Discover, Broadcast, and Connect. You're going to hear these three words more often from us, I'd love to hear if this description it resonates with you.

Of course this new look for MyBlogLog couldn’t have been completed without help from our amazing muse, Jaime Sonoda, who we smooth-talked into sparing us some cycles, and the designing skillz of our man Manny. Together they created quite the slick design.

So jump in there and give it a look around. Let us know what you think!

MyBlogLog adds updates from Zillow and Trulia profiles

MyBlogLog had the pleasure this week to sponsor and attend the very first REbarCamp here in San Francisco. In honor of the event, we thought it was about time we showed some love to our rockin’ real estate blogger community!

Many of those in the real estate business already know that MyBlogLog offers all the right tools to help stay connected, and now we made it even more useful! Since Trulia and Zillow added RSS feeds to their profiles, we're now crawling those profiles for new information every hour and feeding that into your New with Me feed where it gets syndicated along with all the other content that you share on MyBlogLog.

For Trulia, we pull in any answers you've given to questions asked on Trulia. For Zillow, we pull in any new listings you add on Zillow. Speaking with both companies today, it looks like they'll be sharing more content via RSS so when it makes sense, we'll add those too.

If you have a Trulia or Zillow account, hop on over to the Services tab and add your ID and we'll take it from there. If you have your own site, you can also list these services in your About Me widget and show everyone your latest activity.

Find Missing Links in your Social Networks with MyBlogLog Connector

Its a big world out there online, but MyBlogLog can help keep you connected. I think of the web as a huge city, with little neighborhoods that people hang out. The photographers are all kicking it at flickr, the chatterboxes are tweeting away at Twitter, and you got your musicians over at last.fm rocking out. MyBlogLog Connector makes it easier to be an online social butterfly and get connected with what's going on in Internet City.

We first gave you a place to show off what you are up to with New With Me, and gave you the tools to find out what places you hang out at. Then we took that one step farther by delivering you the updates online that are most interesting to you in New With My World, all the buzz online, based on what you have told us is cool.

Then it was time to mingle. Friender showed you who all the cool people are that live with you in Internet City, your friends of friends of friends. We help you make that initial handshake, "Hey! You know Jane too? No way! She's one of my best friends! We definitely should hang out". And with New with My Neighborhood, we kept you in the loop to what they were up to.

So now that we showed you what was going on in your city and introduced you to the people that you need to know. We are taking that last step further and showing you the neighborhoods where your friends hang out, and giving you the tools so you can hook up and hang out there together!

Check out Connector. Your own personal online social directory of where all your friends are! We give you a list of all the people you consider a contact, and all the social web sites they are using. We not only tell you the places they hang out, but the exact table they are sitting at. For now, making that first impression is up to you. We will point you to them, but its up to you to go over and sit down.

How does it work? Let's say you are connected with Jane on MyBlogLog and are chatting it up with her on twitter and sharing photos on flickr. Connector looks at the public friends lists on del.icio.us, Pownce, Digg, Last.fm, and YouTube to see if you're connected there as well. If you and Jane have shared your third party identities on these services on your MyBlogLog profile, we'll do the work to figure out if you're connected or not. If not, the green plus icon will take you to their page where you can connect (once direct authentication is supported, we'll build in-line friending). That's it! Now you can share links, music, and videos and stay that much more in touch with your friends. Use Connector to fill in the gaps in your personal social network.

Its a small (online) world after all.

Is that a blog post in your Messenger window?

If you upgraded to the latest version of Yahoo! Messenger for Windows  (9.0, Beta), you may have noticed a new type of status message next to your contacts which shows the latest articles they may have Buzz'd or changes made to their Yahoo Avatar.

Starting tonight, MyBlogLog is feeding in MyBlogLog activity (adding contacts, joining communities, tagging) as well as your most recent blog posts into Messenger as well. What's cool about this is that it makes your Messenger contact list really come alive, transforming it into a socially aware RSS Reader.

Now, before you IM your friend about the Celtics last night you can read their scathing blog post and adjust accordingly. Likewise, you can post to your blog and automatically notify everyone on your IM list that you're not in a particularly good mood this morning.

Messenger 9.0 Beta (sorry, Windows only)
Manage what you share
Read about that Celtics Game