MyBlogLog: social networking for bloggers
in case you’re not reading this with your favorite RSS-reader, you might have noticed the ‘Recent Readers’ widget - courtesy of MyBlogLog - I recently have added to the sidebar of this blog. MyBlogLog is a social network for blog-readers & -authors, giving a face to the largely anonymous crowd of the blogosphere. besides tracking visitors using cookies, MyBlogLog offers basic site-stats and simple messaging very much like MySpace (”thx for visiting…”). looks like MyBlogLog is gaining some momentum, with even big names like TechCrunch supporting the idea.
update: here’s another downside to the growing number of people consuming blogs through RSS-readers… since I read mostly on Google Reader, the MyBlogLog-cookie will almost never be triggered, therefor preventing my profile from appearing on ‘Recent Readers’-sections of blogs I check out daily…
[...] MyBlogLog, social networking site for bloggers (earlier report), has been acquired by Yahoo! today. rumours evaluate the deal near the us$ 10mio-mark which - imho - seems not to bad for a company that young. however I agree with a commenter at TechCrunch, claiming that they would probably have made a much better price in a year from now. [...]