Comments on: MyBlogLog Co-Branded Communities

By: Mark McGuinness

Mark McGuinness — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:41:48 +0000

It looks great. The one thing I want them to sort out is the ability to cut (or at least filter) the ‘Top 5 links’ – if you look at the ones on the TechCrunch community they include a link to a site called ‘pornotube’ – not exactly what I want my readers to see as part of my community experience!

I’m keen to start doing more with my community on MBL but that’s the one thing holding me back. I’ve e-mailed MBL but no response.

By: Calvin

Calvin — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 06:03:19 +0000

Although new to MyBlogLog, I think it provides a good place to network with real friend not spammers. What Shoemoney said is true – I particularly like the idea of knowing who have visited my website and what they view, click and how they leave.

By: John

John — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 05:39:20 +0000

I saw that Ensight had dropped MBL and then saw this post, so I had to sign up just to see what the deal was. I noticed the comments problems right away (and evidently had to whine about it immediately). I agree with most of what Shoemoney said. Basically, it seems MBL could use a little less MySpace and a little more Digg.

By: Tight Fisted Miser

Tight Fisted Miser — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 04:22:39 +0000

I’ve been considering using MyBlogLog community but I think I’ll wait until they have added the new features. I’m still not completely sure that it is that much of a benefit.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 03:14:55 +0000

anthony c – what don’t you understand?

By: Doug

Doug — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:40:32 +0000

Wow that’s pretty cool.
I like the mybloglog.com features but I would like to see the tracking section re-vamped. It seems to mis-report things like adsense clicks.

By: [MacStansbury]

[MacStansbury] — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:10:21 +0000

Change of direction…

Back in the summer of 2003, I wanted my own site dedicated to the things I was interested in. I loved message boards, and I loved the Mac OS. I also spent a good deal of time on other people’s……

By: Anthony C

Anthony C — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 00:42:23 +0000

Nice article Darren, very interesting!

Im still not 100% sure on what you mean by this though…

By: Rhys

Rhys — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 00:06:50 +0000

Simple one, but I’d love a way to switch off the email notification per community, as opposed to a blanket email notification. I blog for a fairly successful community as well as my own personal blog, and I get probably about 10 messages a day informing me a new comment has posted on the community forum, and I never read them.

However, comments on my own personal blog I’d appreciate to know that.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 22:45:51 +0000

It’s basically the core part of the mybloglog community embedded in their blog… probably using div tags and embed features.. or maybe an iframe…

But, I like the cobranded community… the longer you can keep a reader in your site the better.

By: jhay

jhay — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 22:29:50 +0000

This is neat, just like the Gmail for your domain services by Google. MBL seems to be getting better and better all the time.

By: Mallory

Mallory — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 22:05:23 +0000

There definitely needs to be some way to moderate and prevent the comment spam. It’s currently one of the most unattractive and annoying features of MyBlogLog.

An easier way to search blogs my theme/type/category might be nice as well. Sure there’s a search feature but maybe if we could add tags or keywords about our blogs it would make it easier for someone to find other blogs they’re interested in.

By: Evorgleb

Evorgleb — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 21:35:12 +0000

thedjlist.com is also co-branded like techcrunch.com. I had contacted MyBlogLog about getting one for Highbrid Nation and they said they'd let us know about Alpha and Beta testing coming up. I look forward to using such a feature.

By: Louis

Louis — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 21:15:50 +0000

I dont understand whats the point to have a cobranded MBL

By: Eric Berlin

Eric Berlin — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 21:06:00 +0000

As soon as I saw TechCrunch’s co-branded community on MBL a few months ago, I wanted one for Blogcritics right away (Eric, Rafer and crew promise that co-branded sites will soon be more widely available). A co-branded MBL site represents an easy way to tack a vibrant and powerful community element to an existing blogging community.

For a site like Blogcritics, which has 1,700+ writers, the killer feature would be to allow widget tracking by writer or even by article within a much larger content platform environment.

As far as MyBlogLog itself, I would love to see more features that allow people to better identify themselves and to interact with one another. I’ve no doubt that a lot more of this is coming, but at the same time I hope that the site’s simplicity isn’t lost in the process.

By: Vahid Chaychi

Vahid Chaychi — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 20:50:24 +0000

As far as I know, they are working on most of the new features that ShoeMoney has listed.

By: Scott Howard

Scott Howard — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 20:42:51 +0000

I just started using MYBLOGLOG yesterday so I am still testing things out.