Comments on: MyBlogLog With Yahoo Logins & Mosaic Of My Community

By: maurizio

maurizio — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:54:41 +0000

Thanks Paula..I’m blushing.

Andy: I think it’s better for her to use his http://www.watchfreeepisodes.com hosting to host it. It shouldn’t be so dramatic traffic-wise and you’ll send more readers to that domain too :-)

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:47:41 +0000

Paula

In theory you should be able to use it on Blogger, it is just an image plus html that could be used inside a post.

What you would probably have to do is create a backdated post, say in 1990 so that not everyone has access to it unless they click through.

Then you just strip out the html imagemap data to include in your post and upload the image.

It might end up a little wide for your theme. If t does you could opt to create a new blogger blog and link through to it there.

By: Paula Mooney

Paula Mooney — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:41:56 +0000

Hey Andy -

That is one beautiful mosaic Maurizio created.

I’m eager to put mine up.

I wish I could put it on my blog’s homepage.

Either way, thanks for this post spotlighting Maurizio and all his talents. I pray it brings him lots and lots of hits and readers and everything.

Paula

By: maurizio

maurizio — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:16:11 +0000

They will never reply about this kind of things. The EULA is just a weapon they must have to protect themselves. I think those big companies would pay to have 100% of their users infringing the EULA for small stuff. This way they are 100% protected against any kind of problem. That’s more or less the reason big companies have 1000s of stupid patents; to protect themselves against other companies. Of course the dumb thing about patents is that there are patent-companies that have only patents thus making impossible for them to be caught on doing something against someone else’s patents.

Flickr could probably exchange those pictures randomly and they couldn’t complain. :-)

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:02:51 +0000

Maurizio, sorry for the spelling mistake, I had it almost right but should have checked. On a similar note, I now have a page optimized for “Andreas Beard”
I actually use the Polish spelling of my name on Wikipedia

I actually have a Flickr pro account but I never use it because they didn’t reply to me regarding an exact interpretation of “commercial use” and “web graphics”

I use a lot of screenshots which are not really web graphics.

I see lots of bloggers with 10,000 or more subscribers using Flickr for screenshots on their advertising supported blogs.

Sometimes it would be more convenient to upload things to Flickr

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 10:55:26 +0000

Matt you should use Roboform (or equivalent)

By: Lord Matt

Lord Matt — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 10:46:02 +0000

Creating a yahoo account is a nightmare. Yes you get the stupid email address with it but for someone like me who maintains a public face and a few private ones this is going to be a ‘marishly difficult collection of not easy to use and quick to expire accounts. There is no way I’m going to keep up. Already I no longer use flickR and while I doubt they give a toss about a tiny user like me I am sure I’m not the only one. It was the same with blogger. I have an account (many actually) but I simply can not be bothered with all that email address rubbish. It totally breaks my method for remembering user names and associated passwords and I leave. A large case of goodbye and thanks for the fish.

By: Mosaic of Photos with MyBlogLog users

Mosaic of Photos with MyBlogLog users — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 07:36:45 +0000

[...] Andy Beard posted his big Mosaic on his site. check it here. (If you are a site scraper you’ll have a lot of fun because that article is linking this one [...]

By: maurizio

maurizio — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 07:30:43 +0000

Thanks for the appreciation Andy.
Don’t worry that you mispelled my name, it happens every time (on internet). I should probably change it that way :-)
I should probably call myself Maurizyo or Maurizzyo which should be more easy to remember for english speakers. :-)

Anyway about MyBlogLog, I think another annoying part will be the complete integration of both sites if you don’t want to. I have a yahoo user and the last thing I want is to see my Yahoo information on MBL. Imagine if you have a work email on Yahoo and you don’t want to use it with MBL. If both services are tied together, you have to logoff from one to access the other. And with MBL will be a real pain because you need to be logged in to surf and leave traces.
(If they change urls I should rewrite my mosaic creator app. too :-) )

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 23:29:34 +0000

Hi Ian

Thanks for letting me know, I will include an update