Disqus - Latest Comments for Ian Kennedy

Re: Howard Lindzon » San Francisco is a Blur

Ian Kennedy — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:34:57 -0000

Glad you had a good time in my fair city! KRON's actually independent, no ties to News Corp. as far as I know.

Re: MyBlogLog Yahoo Merged and is Back Up and is Suspicious

Ian Kennedy — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 03:33:51 -0000

Hi Adam,

Thanks for your feedback on the phishing alert in IE7. We're aware of this and are working on addressing this. Sorry for the rough edges as we work our way through this. Thanks for your patience.

Re: JOE LAZARUS - MyBlogLog API: First Impressions

Ian Kennedy — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:04:41 -0000

Nice mashup!

Most likely the network latency is preventing us from recording the current visitor's memberID and making that available via the community.readers.list method in time for you to use the member.find.byservice method to then hop over to another service to pull the preferences you would need in time for an optimal experience.

One thing to play around with is to pull back the collective preferences of your audience (as you have done in your Pipes hack) every hour or so and normalize them to a preference that is customized to the type of readers you attract over the course of the day.

Re: JOE LAZARUS

Ian Kennedy — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:04:24 -0000

Nice! Me likey! :-)

Re: JOE LAZARUS

Ian Kennedy — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:45:06 -0000

hi joe,

two widgets seem to come up side by side on this post.

ian

Re: A simple way to drive away your user base

Ian Kennedy — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 05:37:43 -0000

I'm sorry that no one was able to get back to you with a satisfactory answer. I'd be happy to look into this when I return from holidays next week. If you're interested in re-installing MyBlogLog on your site, please send me details (any that you remember) of your MyBlogLog account and the YahooID that you are trying to merge it with to me and I'll get things sorted out for you.

Ian
Product Manager, MyBlogLog

Re: A simple way to drive away your user base

Ian Kennedy — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:06:57 -0000

Steven - Something must have happened when you merged your account. I looked up your account information and have reset it back to where things were before you merged it with your YahooID. Hopefully the second time through will not cause you any problems.

BTW, I contacted Jamie Lynn and she's really, really sorry for not getting back to you sooner. She also looks after Yahoo Mash and hopes that you'll give both products a second try.

Re: When Social Just Means Another Way To Hype Yourself

Ian Kennedy — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:22:29 -0000

These are all really good points. I just had a fascinating discussion with an academic at University of Texas that networks such as Facebook, FriendFeed and, yes, even MyBlogLog begin to devalue the word "friend"

Aggregation of events is a technical problem that is basically solved. What is more interesting and will be the next venue for innovation is what to do with all the aggregated events and how to filter though them in a way that adds value.

I also find it ironic that the Google Ads that are shown next to your article advertise ways to "promote your blog" and "wanna get rich blogging" - an example of a matching algorithm not tuned to the nuances of its audience.

Ian
Product Manager, MyBlogLog

Re: Why do customer satisfaction surveys ask such stupid questions

Ian Kennedy — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 05:03:41 -0000

Oops. Their intentions are good but execution clearly failed here. I'm passing this one on to the folks that help us out in Customer Care. We clearly need to do better here.

Re: From the Pipeline 3.31.08

Ian Kennedy — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:34:16 -0000

Minor correction - not "too be added to MyBlogLog" but, "already in production"

;-)

Re: MyBlogLog New Features – The Abusive and the Incomplete

Ian Kennedy — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 02:25:53 -0000

Hi Andy,

Just want to let you know that we added the ability to opt-out of Community Messaging email. For details on this check out the MyBlogLog blog:

http://mybloglogb.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/07...

Re: MyBlogLog New Features – The Abusive and the Incomplete

Ian Kennedy — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 02:25:53 -0000

Re: MyBlogLog With Yahoo Logins & Mosaic Of My Community

Ian Kennedy — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:12:29 -0000

Hi Andy,

Rest easy, all URLs will remain the same and cannot be changed. Your screen name is not tied to that URL.

Ian Kennedy
Product Manger, MyBlogLog
http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/iankennedy/

Re: MyBlogLog With Yahoo Logins & Mosaic Of My Community

Ian Kennedy — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:12:29 -0000

Re: MyBlogLog Social Activity Time Line Disappoints

Ian Kennedy — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 03:19:55 -0000

Hi Andy,

Thank you for the feedback, yes, it is constructive. Just want to make clear that we were not working on this for eight months. When priorities shifted, we put this on the back burner while we worked on other things.

Couple of notes.

Twitter urls not clickable - good suggestion!

StumbleUpon - the duplicate looks like an artifact particular to the example you saw, I'll continue to monitor it

Tags: We want to use tags on updates as a vector across members and sites featured on MyBlogLog. The idea is that if you want to drill down on content back at the source, you'd click through the headline to get to that source post and any actions attached to it. I can see why it's unexpected behavior, I'm open to other presentations.

Comments: I'm totally with you on this. I'm not a fan of spawning yet another disconnected pocket of conversations. It's important to tie it together with the source material somehow. If you cannot, then don't do it.

Also, I looked for the Facebook integration on FriendFeed but couldn't find it.

All the best,

Ian

PS.
The TechCrunch link goes to the wrong article. The one you need is:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/29/yahoos-myb...

I think you mean "Blogcatalog partnered with SezWho" not MyBlogLog.

Re: MyBlogLog Social Activity Time Line Disappoints

Ian Kennedy — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 03:19:55 -0000

Re: My social map is totally decentralized but I want it back on my blog

Ian Kennedy — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:59:09 -0000

Further to what Julian Bond mentions about rich About Me pages, have a look at the new MyBlogLog in-page widget which pulls in your updates from the various services that you aggregate on MyBlogLog and makes it available for the body of your About Me page.

See it in action on my WP blog at:
http://everwas.com/about

It also works in TypePad where I hijacked the Biography field to put in the New with Me script:
http://iankennedy.typepad.com/about.html

You can pick up your widget code on MyBlogLog
http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/e_widget_newwithm...

Re: Shelf

Ian Kennedy — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:55:00 -0000

Very cool. If you're interested in extending this with data we have in the MyBlogLog API, let me know. For an example of what we've got, check out the API docs:

http://developer.yahoo.com/mybloglog

Ian
Product Manager, MyBlogLog

(this comment imported into Disqus by Tom Insam on 2008/12/02)

Re: My Last Day at Google | Charles Hudson's Weblog

Ian Kennedy — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:36:50 -0000

Damn, that was quick! Well, maybe we can sit down and talk openly now. Keep me posted on what you're up to next.

Re: MyBlogLog listen and added the missing label | Life Mashup: Yovav "Jay" Meydad's Blog

Ian Kennedy — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:27:12 -0000

Glad you noticed. Have you had a chance to check out the email signature feature yet?

http://mybloglogb.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/10...

Ian
Product Manager, MyBlogLog

Re: MyBlogLog needs to learn some web manners | Life Mashup: Yovav "Jay" Meydad's Blog

Ian Kennedy — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 05:26:10 -0000

When you register for MyBlogLog, one of the check boxes on the registration page is for the auto add to communities feature. The default is to add you automatically after 10 pageviews of a site. This can be changed at any time by editing your profile and selecting either a higher value or turning it off completely and joining communities manually.

The "Hot in My Communities" personalization on your profile page is driven by the communities that you join and the more you join, the better it gets. For this reason, we encourage everyone to use the automated community add feature.

If this isn't your style, you can simply turn this feature off. We won't be offended ;-)

Best,

Ian
Product Manager, MyBlogLog

Re: Yahoo just needs to fix one thing: Monetization

Ian Kennedy — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 15:36:09 -0000

[disclosure: I work at and evangelize Yahoo]

Thomas,

You're seeing the first steps in this monetization with the release of Flickr's Camera Finder [http://www.flickr.com/cameras/]. By taking the implicit meta-data left behind as our users interact with these services, we can aggregate and package data & recommendations that are useful for everyone, even for those that do not use the service. With this aggregation and packaging, flickr now has an excellent place to go research digital cameras which, if I were a camera maker, I would love to spend ad dollars. Transactional links to shopping.yahoo.com are already plugged into each individual camera page which speaks directly to Dave's suggestion of more CPA type opportunity.

Thanks for the post Dave. Not going to comment except to say that we're very focused on the points you raise and looking forward to stretching our legs as we come out of the blocks with the new Ad Platform.

Ian

Re: Rumor: Google about to sign ad deal with Dish Networks

Ian Kennedy — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 03:59:59 -0000

Oh great, I can see it now. Fall behind paying your Dish bill and rather than a terse note from accounts payable they monetize your attention with commercial breaks on debt consolidation services.

Re: Kicking Shelfari while they’re down

Ian Kennedy — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:25:18 -0000

Sounds like a poor user experience indeed.

We auto-check all email addresses in the MyBlogLog invite feature which we integrated with the Yahoo Address Book listing. We're pretty clear about what's going on though - is your advice to uncheck them all as the default?

Re: Yahoo Local News Beta

Ian Kennedy — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 02:07:44 -0000

I didn't even realize this was on sports.yahoo.com. Thankfully it doesn't add teams based on your zip code, there are still some folks in San Francisco that want to follow the Red Sox. . .

Re: The Intention Economy - Pulling Demand from the Edge

Ian Kennedy — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 22:58:17 -0000

I like your idea! A lot of the IRC chatter was about what was going on in each session and which one had good discussion, enough seats, or juiced up powerstrips. While that was a messy way of conveying information, I think that in the short timeframe during each session, it was the most efficient. Likewise, the plain paper bulliten board advertising the Birds of a Feather sessions and other call for discussion seemed to work to get like-minded folks together.

You should check out Placesite - they've been working on a project that takes wifi and allows people to broadcast their interest - hopefully he can get a Placesite set up at an upcoming conference - it'd be interesting to see it in action and see if it can improve on existing technology.

Re: Job Requirement : Level 60 World of Warcraft Guildmaster

Ian Kennedy — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 00:53:40 -0000

My 7 year-old son showed me a "computer" he constructed out of cardboard today when I got home from work. On it, he had drawn a search interface. The search engine, in his mind, is the primary purpose of a computer.

There were no banner ads.

Re: Getting drafted for the Yankees

Ian Kennedy — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 17:11:19 -0000

Yeah, thanks to the internets there are quite a few of us out there.

Aviation comic book artist
New Jersey-based photographer
Chair of the UK Healthcare commission

Re: Legalese down your throat

Ian Kennedy — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 02:51:46 -0000

here's the full text:

Original Message
From: Google Video
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 3:57 AM
Subject: Greetings from Google Video

Hello Uploader,

It's the Google Video Team again, back with an exciting update. We've been working hard to make Google Video the best way to find and play video on the web, and we hope some of our recent features are useful to you:

- Instant gratification: A web-based video uploader
(http://video.google.com/videouploadform) for immediate upload and playback
- Share your video with the world, or maybe just your friends: Single-click video posting to popular blog services, including MySpace and Blogger
- Get involved!: Now add ratings, tags, and comments for all videos
- Zeit-what? Now you can see a "Top 100" list (http://video.google.com/videoranking),
updated daily, that shows what people are watching
- It's "Football", not "Soccer": Google Video now exists in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Canada, Poland, and the Netherlands

And there's a lot more to come -- you may have noticed that we're also been experimenting with making "for sale" content free by sponsoring videos with ads. By doing this we've been able to expose a lot of great video to our users, like content from Charlie Rose (http://video.google.com/freetoday.html).

Because this test has been successful, we're continuing to experiment with using ads to extend content distribution. To do this, we've made some minor modifications to our Terms of Service (TOS) so you can participate in ad programs we may roll out in the future. Please take a moment to review the changes by logging into your account at https://upload.video.google.com and accepting the new terms and conditions. If you don't agree to the new TOS, we will assume you acknowledge and accept these changes, and will include your content in Google Video, as it is today.

Keep the video rolling... and, as they say, the best is yet to come!

Anticipating even more fun,
The Google Video Team

Re: I don’t know why but I just can’t stop

Ian Kennedy — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:08:02 -0000

Make sure you turn the sound on.

Re: I don’t know why but I just can’t stop

Ian Kennedy — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 11:36:53 -0000

/pd,

thanks for posting on outer-court.com and the eventual digg - totally spiked my traffic!

Lmo,

Firefox on a PC works just fine, not sure about FF or Safari on the Mac as my machine is having trouble booting up this morning :-(

Re: Serving the space between - Yahoo Publisher Network

Ian Kennedy — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 01:49:59 -0000

Thanks everyone for your support.

Fergus, great to hear from you - I still owe you a pint or two, hopefully I can pay you back.

Sugarrae, looking forward to meeting you. Your name is whispered in hushed tones around here. We all have personal blogs because it's a great way to stay in tune with the latest trends in online publishing. It's my opinion to keep your blog mostly about your work interests but sprinkle it with a few stories about your life so your readers know you're not a bot, 80/20 is about right.

You Mon, cheers to you my friend - I'll keep you posted!

Re: Serving the space between - Yahoo Publisher Network

Ian Kennedy — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 23:30:55 -0000

Fahim, I've read through the thread and know that people on our content quality team have as well. Our Terms of Service for publishers in the beta are pretty clear and we do our best to keep the quality of the network high.

Anil, great to hear from you. If you're interested in trying out the Yahoo beta for your site, drop me a line!

Re: Web 2.0 Summit - Launchpad

Ian Kennedy — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 10:42:47 -0000

Hi Will,

Interesting question. I'm not the one to go to for valuations but as far as cool ideas I really liked how Adify enables sites to self-organize and help one another, Instructables for the community, and Stikkit for pure elegance.

Re: Web 2.0 Summit - Highlights

Ian Kennedy — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 19:28:06 -0000

Thanks Jeff - that's awesome. Now, to complete the loop, Why Are You Here Right Now? should be available on amazon.com!

Re: eBay completes social media troika, message boards, blogs, now a wiki

Ian Kennedy — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 22:23:18 -0000

Not sure about placing ads directly with eBay but since this announcement, eBay runs banner ads from the Yahoo network so you can contact Yahoo! Advertising for more details.

Re: Visual Interface to Musical Genres, Musicovery

Ian Kennedy — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 13:30:59 -0000

Thanks for the correction. I've updated the post. Do both Musicovery and Liveplasma share the same relationship maps?

Are you using the Amazon APIs to determine how things are related?

Re: reinvigorate.net - shiny new stats app reborn

Ian Kennedy — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 23:19:43 -0000

I remember the realtime reporting as well. There was an audible "ping" when you had a new visitor which made it fun on high traffic days.
Kind of like watching popcorn pop in the microwave.

Re: Austin bound

Ian Kennedy — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 02:43:29 -0000

Look forward to meeting with you Pat!

Re: Sparkletack is Back!

Ian Kennedy — Thu, 17 May 2007 19:38:50 -0000

Hi John,

I just sent Richard, the publisher of the site, an email to let him know his site was down. Hopefully he can give it a swift kick and get it running again!

Re: MyBlogLog: DNS for People

Ian Kennedy — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 21:18:24 -0000

Hey Fergus!

SIOC looks very interesting. Thanks for the pointer, I'll be sure to check them out.

Re: MyBlogLog: DNS for People

Ian Kennedy — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 01:04:37 -0000

Hi BeachBum,

Glad you like the tags - we're just collecting the data now but have lots of ideas about how to use them in interesting ways in the future.

Re: Identity Management , it’s a public service

Ian Kennedy — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:23:24 -0000

Berkeley's a great place for lunch. Come on by sometime!

Re: Anybody want a Pownce invite?

Ian Kennedy — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:00:04 -0000

Here you go everyone, see you on Pownce. Still have three more left!

Re: Social News

Ian Kennedy — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:50:21 -0000

Thanks Tom.

Newspaper sites are sitting on a valuable archive of reviews, stories, interviews and experiential knowledge of their staff.

News is valuable when it first breaks and is unique. This space is well-served by the news aggregators we saw on Thursday who scoop this up and quickly and efficiently distribute it through their associated social networks.

Once a news story is broadly distributed, it becomes a commodity and re-purposed to the point where secondary stories break their connection with the original story and no longer serve as a source of traffic to the original.

Starting about a month later, the news becomes valuable again for archival reasons. As the news archive business can tell you, such a story can still be "monetized" as a source of truth. The going rate is usually $2.95 behind a pay wall.

I would argue that these stories could be better monetized if they were outside the wall as reference points for historical perspective. I was recently looking for information about the 1997 Asian Currency Crisis and the top result was from Wikipedia. There is a NY Times page dedicated to the topic but it only points to NY Times stories. There's no reason a newspaper can't broaden their coverage to include multiple sources and perspectives as this one hosted by the Harvard Business School or the Wikipedia example above.

Taking this same example to the local level, there is no reason restaurant and movie review stories can't pull in past perspectives from their stories. If a new restaurant features a cook from another restaurant, link to a review of that restaurant. If a movie features a particular landmark, link to a local story that ran when they closed off the street for the filming.

Newsrooms are sitting on goldmine of material that can be re-purposed to enrich stories as they develop. If the news editors pulled in related stories not only from their own archives but also from sites out on the open web, it will not only help their brand, it will help the reputation of their editorial staff.

An editor must do more than re-write headlines and arrange the top stories for the home page. Each major story is an opportunity to create a new home page around that story and provide their perspective and viewpoint.

Re: Social News

Ian Kennedy — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:02:19 -0000

Just noticed that Doc Searls covered these points (and more) in a post on his site:

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2007/08/15/sti...

Re: MacSpeech Dictate Out Friday

Ian Kennedy — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:52:16 -0000

Holy crap! Yes, the video is totally worth watching.

Re: Federated Media New York Office | Laughing Squid

Ian Kennedy — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 01:33:08 -0000

In all the years that I worked with Joe at Dow Jones, he never, ever, told me he played the Theremin. The man never ceases to amaze, the mind just boggles.

Re: Beard Papa’s, Fresh ‘N Natural Cream Puffs

Ian Kennedy — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:37:41 -0000

The Japanese ex-pat community here was very excited when this store opened. Beard Papa is an institution in Tokyo. Whenever I'm downtown, I try and stop by and get a box for the kids who love to eat them for breakfast.

Re: Beard Papa’s, Fresh ‘N Natural Cream Puffs

Ian Kennedy — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:38:23 -0000

@Steve - they're a-w-e-s-o-m-e!

Re: MyBlogLog Getting Into Identity Management

Ian Kennedy — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:57:15 -0000

Hi Nick,

We debated the various merits of opt-in and opt-out but finally decided on opt-out because of the unique nature of MyBlogLog. Most of the activity on MyBlogLog happens in the widgets, a small percentage of users make it back to the site. If we chose to go with an opt-in, it would take a long time for people to catch on and the real value of New with Me comes from a critical mass of users adopting it.

We looked closely at the Facebook Beacon reaction and felt the biggest issue was lack of control. The opt-out pop-up disappeared too quickly and there was, initially, no means to opt-out on the site itself. We took these lessons to heart and have built in controls which a user can use to quickly opt-out and control what they share. By sending the email blast, posting it on our blog, and coverage and discussion from folks like yourself, we hope that we can arrive at a solution that doesn't take anyone by surprise.

Ian Kennedy
Product Manager, MyBlogLog

Re: The MyBlogLog Newsfeed Goes Live

Ian Kennedy — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:24:02 -0000

Hi Nick,

Thanks for the write-up.

You hit the nail on the head about lifestreaming being more of a feature and less a product in it's own right. We built New with Me from the start as a flowing river of pointers to content and not a repository. We want this to be a place to browse updates from people you know. Whenever you want to interact with that content in any way (favorite a photo, comment on a blog post, drill back to an archive or profile) we send the user back to the originating site.

For more on the thinking behind this feature, see my post on the topic:

http://mybloglogb.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/02...

See you in San Diego!

Ian

Re: MyBlogLog Webware 100

Ian Kennedy — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:27:00 -0000

Thanks for the support - whoo-hooo! go MyBlogLog!

Re: Flickr Stats, Uploadr 3.0, & Y! Shortcuts

Ian Kennedy — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 03:22:56 -0000

It's late-breaking but the MyBlogLog team pushed out a feature as well. Check it out our new "About Me" widget:

http://mybloglogb.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/12...

Re: New MyBlogLog Widget: Ugly, Clunky

Ian Kennedy — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:02:54 -0000

Sorry you don't like the new blog - oh well, different strokes. . .

If the flyouts annoy, you can disable them on the configuration page by selecting "none" on the Flyout orientation dropdown.

Also, the old widget is still there for those that want to customize the CSS. Look for the link in the red box on the top of the widget configuration page.

FYI, we'll be adding instructions in the near future on how you can customize this new widget too.

Ian
Product Manager, MyBlogLog

Re: New MyBlogLog Widget: Ugly, Clunky

Ian Kennedy — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:04:15 -0000

The old widget code is there via a link to "Looking for the old-school Recent Reader widget? Find it here." up at the top of the page behind your blog community's link for "widgets"

http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/community/r3fresh...

Ian

Re: O…M….G…

Ian Kennedy — Mon, 21 May 2007 16:17:45 -0000

Checking out MyBlogLog comment faces.

Re: Proactive Discovery; Find Something You’re Not Aware of, On Your Own

Ian Kennedy — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:55:13 -0000

I posted about a line of javascript that not many people are aware of that lets you re-write any web page. Too late for April Fool's but keep it in your back pocket for next year.

http://cavitate.net/flashpoint/2007/07/for_the_pranksters_toolkit.html

Re: More Google product improvements/ideas

Ian Kennedy — Tue, 15 May 2007 01:22:09 -0000

You can use Yahoo Pipes to filter out the daily delicious posts. Here's a link to one I created that you can clone for your own subscriptions.

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=kIKW...

Re: What MyBlogLog is and why I like it - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Ian Kennedy — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:30:59 -0000

Glad to have you back! Jackie, thanks for making the connection.
Incidentally, Jackie did a quick interview with me at the recent Web 2.0 Expo on how one might use MyBlogLog with a marketing campaign. [http://qik.com/video/64162]

Re: 2007/06/16/stalking2/

Ian Kennedy — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 23:00:59 -0000

Don't forget MyBlogLog (http://mybloglog.com)!

Re: 2007/07/09/buy-blog-comments/

Ian Kennedy — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 04:14:01 -0000

Hey Ted! Ouch man, that hurts. Yeah, the team knows we're a bit boxy and garish. We also kinda dress funny and tend towards the baggy jeans & faded lucky t-shirts for our dress. We're working on it! Grooming classes imminently!

Re: 2008/01/17/mybloglog-now-with-checkmarks/

Ian Kennedy — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:37:30 -0000

Hi Mark,

Verification puts the checkmark on your MyBlogLog profile page like the one you see on the page for our blog:

http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/community/myblogl...

The idea is to tie the MyBlogLog community page to the actual owner of the site and establish that the connection is, in fact, authentic.

@Wei, sorry you're having problems with the site. Drop a note into the help contact form describing your trouble and we'll try and get things sorted for you.

Ian
Product Manager, MyBlogLog

Re: 2008/01/17/mybloglog-now-with-checkmarks/

Ian Kennedy — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:26:30 -0000

Hi Spuds,

The checkmark goes onto your MyBlogLog profile, not your blog.

Ian

Re: 2008/02/14/mybloglog-reader-roll/

Ian Kennedy — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:21:01 -0000

The check mark showing verification is still an important part of your community profile. If you click though to my community on http://everwas.com (which features the new widget) you'll see that it goes to my community page which still features the widget.

We never featured the check mark on the old widget.

Ian Kennedy
Product Manager, MyBlogLog

Re: 2008/02/15/mybloglog-yahoo-complete/

Ian Kennedy — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:28:47 -0000

Hi,

We saw your earlier post about the verification checkmark and, as I noted in the comments, it was never surfaced on the earlier Recent Reader widget nor is it there on the new one.

That said, the team discussed it yesterday after your post and it's pretty easy to get it added and brings some value to the viewers of the widget. Keep your eyes out for the checkmark to appear in the new widget flyout in the near future.

Thanks for the suggestion!

Ian
Product Manager, MyBlogLog

Re: 2008/02/15/mybloglog-yahoo-complete/

Ian Kennedy — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:10:51 -0000

The checkmarks for verified sites are now there on the flyouts for the new Recent Reader widget. Thanks again for the suggestion.

Ian

Re: FriendFeed and 8 Other Lifestreaming Services

Ian Kennedy — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:11:15 -0000

MyBlogLog launched its Lifestreaming widget today!

http://mybloglogb.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/03...

Re: MyBlogLog Blew Up Again

Ian Kennedy — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:18:21 -0000

Hi Zoli,

We saw webgrrrl's post and were alerted to the plug-in issue. We're testing a fix and I'll let you know when it's fixed.

Ian
Product Manager, MyBlogLog

Re: MyBlogLog Blew Up Again

Ian Kennedy — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:18:21 -0000

Hi Zoli,

We saw webgrrrl's post and were alerted to the plug-in issue. We're testing a fix and I'll let you know when it's fixed.

Ian
Product Manager, MyBlogLog

Re: MyBlogLog Blew Up Again

Ian Kennedy — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:01:33 -0000

The code's fixed. You need to go back into MyBlogLog and hit Get Widgets to get the latest code.

Hope that helps!

Ian

Re: MyBlogLog Blew Up Again

Ian Kennedy — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:01:33 -0000

The code's fixed. You need to go back into MyBlogLog and hit Get Widgets to get the latest code.

Hope that helps!

Ian

Re: MyBlogLog Bug - Recent Reader List Disappears After Trying To Update Widget Style

Ian Kennedy — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:31:14 -0000

I believe this has to do with the way our caching is set up. We'll take a look at this and get back to you in these comments.

Ian
MyBlogLog

Re: Much ado about blogging (Scoble, you didn’t answer the question)

Ian Kennedy — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 12:43:30 -0000

The benefits of blogging at a small, unknown company can have a direct impact on website traffic and therefore business. This is especially the case in a field such as a tailor or a winery where blogging is a new way to interact with clients and the blog generates interest from not only existing clients but also the curious (and mainstream media looking for a good story).

For larger companies the benefits are different. There is already an established channel for communicating with the market and a reputation built upon these channels. Blogs amplifies an existing message so the benefits are harder to measure. A blog is unstructured and spontaneous so it's impact does not lend itself to formal metrics that traditional marketing campaigns are built around.

As Elizabeth says above, it's best to think of blogs as an oppportunity to communicate on a personal level with your most engaged customers. It is also a way to reach out to potential customers by building the number of connections in your company's social network. That is the true value of a corporate blog and until someone can agree on a price for a social network ($2 billion for Facebook anyone?) it'll be difficult to put an exact ROI on a corporate blog.

Re: Podcasting not a good name? Huh?

Ian Kennedy — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 02:30:50 -0000

Hi Robert,

Check out http://podcasts.yahoo.com. There's a "listen" button next to each podcast which makes it easy to preview a podcast before you subscribe (and also get distracted listening to all the great stuff out there too!)

Re: The really interesting FriendFeed page to watch

Ian Kennedy — Fri, 02 May 2008 04:48:34 -0000

I wish that my delicious links didn't show up on the /discussion page - I don't think my annotations belong in there as "comments"

Love the re-design by the way. It must be Spring!

Re: Forget Google, Now MyBlogLog Adds Friends without Your Consent

Ian Kennedy — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:28:36 -0000

Hi Jordon,

I'm so sorry you are still getting un-prompted contact emails. If they are from the same member that you reported was sending you email a few weeks ago, I just checked and confirmed that they *are not* on your Block List.

http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/mem_hidel...

Go to the last message that you received and Click on [Report Spam] to add them to your Block List and you should never get an email or friend request from them again.

Ian
Product Guy, MyBlogLog

Re: Forget Google, Now MyBlogLog Adds Friends without Your Consent

Ian Kennedy — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:38:06 -0000

Correction - the person you were reporting before *is* on your Block List. If you are still getting friend requests from this person, please let me know because we are unable to reproduce what is obviously a bug.

We had tested and confirmed a fix, obviously this isn't the case!

Ian

Re: MyBlogLog introduces “Just For You” Wordpress Widget

Ian Kennedy — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:19:46 -0000

Glad you like it. Hope you get a chance to try it out.

Ian Kennedys last blog post..Just for You Personalizes Your WordPress Blog

Re: A Normal Morning, then Open Up MyBlogLog and…Lifestreaming

Ian Kennedy — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:58:25 -0000

Thanks for the kind words Drew. You are correct, we have added two new API calls last night along with the New with Me feature:

member.newwithcontacts
member.newwithme

You can read up on all the gory details at:
http://developer.yahoo.com/mybloglog

Cheers,

Ian

Ian

Re: The Winners of LiewCF MyBlogLog Community Giveaway

Ian Kennedy — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:46:56 -0000

Nice idea and great way to give something back to your community. Like the video too!

Re: Style your MyBlogLog Recent Readers Widget

Ian Kennedy — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:40:12 -0000

Thanks for the write-up. I've bookmarked it here:

http://del.icio.us/mybloglog

Re: MyBlogLog Disappoints

Ian Kennedy — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:22:56 -0000

Yes, it's not ideal but legal restrictions kept us from making this a global contest for everyone. Sorry about that, Robyn's written a post as well.

http://mybloglogb.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/11...

Re: Analytics on the Cheap: Six Free Stats Packages for the Startup or Small-Business Owner

Ian Kennedy — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:48:01 -0000

I prefer reinvigorate.net to for the analysis and graphing but still jump to StatCounter for their "Recent Came From" report.

I did a write up on Reinvigorate here:

http://cavitate.net/flashpoint/2007/02/reinvigo...

Re: Friday SEO Blogs

Ian Kennedy — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 16:07:36 -0000

Thanks for the add Lee. Liked your post on "Myths of SEO" and the "Notify me of followup comments" on your blog is a nice feature.

Re: Social Networks Steal Your Search Engine Traffic

Ian Kennedy — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:32:34 -0000

MyBlogLog's syndication service was designed to get you more exposure for your blog. We use your RSS feed to extract the headline, snippet, and tags off your posts and re-distribute them across mybloglog.com so that your articles get more exposure.

The idea is to get your article in front of as many people as possible with the articles showing up on your:

community page:
http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/community/garryconn/

new with me lifestream:
http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/GarryConn/

and topic pages which aggregate around your article tags:
http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/topics/socialnetw...

We also hooked up with the Yahoo Messenger team and headlines of your posts are now part of your Status window if you've opt-ed in and your contacts are using the Windows Messenger 9.0 Beta

http://mybloglogb.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/06...

As you point out, adding your RSS feed to your profile is voluntary but we hope you take advantage of the service.

<abbr>Check out Ian Kennedy's last blog post..Some widget love using the MyBlogLog API</abbr>

Re: Social Networks Steal Your Search Engine Traffic

Ian Kennedy — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:32:34 -0000

Re: This Whole Buzz Thing: So Wrong, It is Right

Ian Kennedy — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:30:35 -0000

So there you go - BuzzMetrics felt you *should* be talking about Sanjaya and lo and behold, today you did. It was anticipating the future.

Pretty smart software if you ask me ;-)

Re: Our New Finance Section & The ContentNext Media Index

Ian Kennedy — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:17:19 -0000

I just noticed that your channels sidebar links don't work in the finance section. Nice job otherwise!