I have long been a supporter of MyBlogLog and in many ways it was the many articles I wrote about how they could improve their site that led me to doing some limited consulting with Blogcatalog.
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MyBlogLog R.I.P Long Live Blogcatalog
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Feedburner Adds Friendfeed – Subscriber Data For Socialstreaming and Lifestreaming
Chris Cree spotted today that Friendfeed subscribers are now counted towards Feedburner stats.
It can make quite a striking difference with Feedburner if you have a few followers there.
But even this doesn’t really account for the shifting sands in online attention.
The latter half of this post was originally published Mar 21, 2008 @ 20:38
Since then Twitter has for many people emerged as the primary way they read RSS feeds, combined with various forms of lifestreaming.
The first time I see tweets and blog posts often is also on services such as Blogcatalog’s dashboard or even Mybloglog (though that can sometimes lag a little on updates these days)
Current Calculation Problems
- Blogcatalog & Mybloglog numbers are just as relevant as Friendfeed
- Twitter numbers are probably more relevant than any Lifestreaming service
- Facebook subscribers are still not counted
- Aweber & Feedblitz, along with Feedburners own RSS to Email service are included, but they are the only ones I know about. Where is the Getresponse support Simon? Infusionsoft should really offer something as well, though they don’t offer RSS to email – I am not sure about Mailchimp
The onus really is on the developers of these other platforms to report numbers to Feedburner, but I have no idea how that can be managed with Facebook and Twitter.
Posted in blogging tips , Google , web 2.0 Also tagged aweber , blog subscribers , bookmarking , feedblitz , feedburner , friendfeed , getresponse , goog , Google , lifestreaming , mybloglog , RSS Subscribers , social streaming Comments closed
Paydirt: Blogcatalog Interviewed on Technorati Blog Advertising
Technorati have now officially announced their new blog advertising platform surprisingly called Technorati Media.
It is a significant step, though not as many seem to think unusual.
Afterall, Google started as a search engine, then monetized search, and finally introduced their own publisher program Adsense.
Lots of discussion related to the often reappearing Microsoft Yahoo deal mention that display advertising is highly lucrative, and Technorati are in a prime position to serve advertising to a very specific demographic of publishers – bloggers.
Technorati know exacty what bloggers are talking about on a day to day basis, so in aggregate they can offer publishers targeted display advertising, at least in theory.
Also it is important to understand that instead of selling the vast amount of data they have, they are using it to provide an added value service.
From the official announcement:-
Posted in blogging tips , web 2.0 Also tagged blog advertising , blog monetization , blogging , blogs , make money online , technorati Comments closed
FriendFeed Flaws – The Wrong Kind Of Attention Grabbing
I did mention FriendFeed in a recent Blogcatalog post regarding their activity widgets, and have been looking at it in a little more depth.
There are lots of posts about how wonderful it is, or pointless but very few delving into some of the flaws or missing features. I know they have support and feedback on Google Groups… but I hate Google Groups, and the feedback from the groups isn't necessarily making it out into the blogosphere.
I am going to keep this a little shorter than normal, I am working with Blogcatalog who have a couple of
MyBlogLog Social Activity Time Line Disappoints
I normally include a disclosure at the end of my posts relating to Blogcatalog and MyBlogLog, because I want to preserve as much impartiality as possible.
I have always tried to give them equal coverage, and whatever financial benefit I gain from working a little closer with Blogcatalog behind the scenes I try not to influence my opinion. If I was writing paid reviews about them, or had accepted direct advertising, I would have earned a lot more than I will probably receive long term if you factor in associated risk.
I do benefit potentially from long term promotion of Blogcatalog and
Posted in blogging tips , web 2.0 Also tagged facebook , friendfeed , lifestream , mybloglog , social cloud , social graph , social network Comments closed
Blogcatalog Give Purpose To The Social Graph
If you are a devotee of Facebook or Myspace, I have a message for you
There is a World Outside Your Fishtank
Within "blogging" social networks I have been pushing to have a reason to add someone as a friend for a long time. Blog broadcasts, built in feed readers and OPML will eventually provide a reason to join communities.
I know that MyBlogLog are planning to also launch something similar and I have a feeling this will likely kick off more people claiming Blogcatalog is just a copycat of Mybloglog.
I first had a sneak peak at the Dashboard a few
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Blogcatalog SezWho Partnership – Passes MyBlogLog Traffic
For the last few weeks Blogcatalog have been driving full steam with new features, and today announce a partnership with SezWho, the comment and reputation ranking platform.
I have been slacking a little over the last month on the updates, so time to play catch up.
First of all some big news, Blogcatalog has now surpassed MyBlogLog in traffic levels, if you believe Alexa data. They are in exactly the same niche, and share plenty of users, so whilst I don’t trust Alexa data extensively, this is a significant achievement considering it wasn’t long ago when people had trouble differentiating the two services.
Posted in blogging tips , web 2.0 Also tagged blogcatalog api , disqus , mybloglog , Mybloglog API , sezwho , wordpress Comments closed
98 Remarkable Acts of Kindness
Moving to a new house, not having an internet connection, or a telephone for that matter for 2 weeks really throws a spanner in the works, and it takes time to settle down.
I had been planning to write about Bloggers Unite about a week ago, with a followup post yesterday, but most of yesterday I was again without a connection. I gave up at 7am.
On Blogcatalog there is now a list forming of all the blogs that took part, and one way for me to give a little something back is to link to all of them.
I
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Supporting Your Most Valued Communities Without WIIFM
Awards such as the Open Web Awards are a great way for members of a community to show support for the free services they find valuable, and giving something back to the people who run them.
What's In It For Me?
Honestly… nothing directly, unless the community owner pays you to vote for them, either directly or with prizes.
I must admit I am not a big supporter of offering prizes and gifts to encourage participation. As an example I can encourage you to join the Collective Thoughts Community on MyBlogLog, but I am not going to offer a specific incentive.
I have
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