Comments on: Exclusive: Activity SocialStream Goes Portable With Blogcatalog

By: Hunter Jackson

Hunter Jackson — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:39:47 +0000

I joined blogcatalog and just don’t get it. I get facebook, I get Friendfeed, twitter, etc…I don’t get blogcatalog. Maybe it will come to me, that is how I was at first with Twitter etc.

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Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:09:20 +0000

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By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:20:00 +0000

There is only so much someone can cope with spending half the week travelling to see their soon to be adopted son, moving into a new house that still has bare cables hanging out of the walls, and surviving with an internet connection slower than dial-up.
I have been neglecting Bumpzee along with lots of other social activities.

By: BillyWarhol

BillyWarhol — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:26:25 +0000

I love BlogCatalog + would Highly recommend it to any Blogger*

I had joined MyBlogLog first + love it too but BlogCatalog has come on Strong with Excellent Features + a very Strong Community* It has far surpassed MBL in terms of Useful Community Features*

I find that surprising cuz U’d think being bought out by Yahoo! that MBL might incorporate a lotta c0ol new Web2.0 stuff but they can’t even hold a Candle to BlogCatalog*

Ironically I arrived here from BumpZee which I thought Andy was somehow involved in but considering he hasn’t logged in there in over 2 months I guess that space is a pure Dead Zone*

BlogCatalog Rules!!

;)) Peace*

By: Blogosphere News 8th March | Blogging Sueblimely

Blogosphere News 8th March | Blogging Sueblimely — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:20:24 +0000

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By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:49:18 +0000

Alex yes it hits page load. You will notice I keep the number of widgets on the single pages to a minimum, and the BC / Sezwho images for comments are very small.

That being said, I just emailed Jitendra from SezWho to see if he could turn on gzip compression for their JS and CSS.

My sidebar loads last, or I could also use a plugin to load the widgets

I like the idea of community, that was the aim for this blog, thus they are appropriate. For other blogs maybe they are not ideal.

By: Tony Berkman

Tony Berkman — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:36:19 +0000

Hag your point is good regarding the social stream widget alone however blogcatalog.com is also a vibrant blogger social community with over 100,000 blogs. By enabling our members to move their data where they want to go is valuable to members and strengthens the destination community blogcatalog.com

By: Hag Smiley

Hag Smiley — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:42:19 +0000

Um hello, am I missing something here? This kind of site would have an direct effect on most Social Networks business model, advertising. I cannot imagine this model being successful. The ability to monitor your Social Networks for updates, and pull basic updates via RSS into a stream however, is something that would both be useful to users, and still benefit Social Networks.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:48:31 +0000

Hey Andy,

I see you have integrated quite a few widgets from social networks ….

My question would be a more prosaic and to the point – have you seen any increase in page load time after doing so?

Reason I ask is that I constantly battle wit myself about the benefits of having them and negative impact they have on page load. I have seen a single widget added to sidebar can add as much as extra second or more.

What is your experience? Have you tested it?

Thanks,
Alex

By: TzuVelli

TzuVelli — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:27:16 +0000

Blog Catalog’s new widgets are indeed impressive. It looks like you will be able to organize most of your social media needs at Blog catalog. Seems like it will be very convenient.