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June 2008

Find Missing Links in your Social Networks with MyBlogLog Connector

Its a big world out there online, but MyBlogLog can help keep you connected. I think of the web as a huge city, with little neighborhoods that people hang out. The photographers are all kicking it at flickr, the chatterboxes are tweeting away at Twitter, and you got your musicians over at last.fm rocking out. MyBlogLog Connector makes it easier to be an online social butterfly and get connected with what's going on in Internet City.

 

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We first gave you a place to show off what you are up to with New With Me, and gave you the tools to find out what places you hang out at. Then we took that one step farther by delivering you the updates online that are most interesting to you in New With My World, all the buzz online, based on what you have told us is cool.

Then it was time to mingle. Friender showed you who all the cool people are that live with you in Internet City, your friends of friends of friends. We help you make that initial handshake, "Hey! You know Jane too? No way! She's one of my best friends! We definitely should hang out". And with New with My Neighborhood, we kept you in the loop to what they were up to.

So now that we showed you what was going on in your city and introduced you to the people that you need to know. We are taking that last step further and showing you the neighborhoods where your friends hang out, and giving you the tools so you can hook up and hang out there together!

Check out Connector. Your own personal online social directory of where all your friends are! We give you a list of all the people you consider a contact, and all the social web sites they are using. We not only tell you the places they hang out, but the exact table they are sitting at. For now, making that first impression is up to you. We will point you to them, but its up to you to go over and sit down.

How does it work? Let's say you are connected with Jane on MyBlogLog and are chatting it up with her on twitter and sharing photos on flickr. Connector looks at the public friends lists on del.icio.us, Pownce, Digg, Last.fm, and YouTube to see if you're connected there as well. If you and Jane have shared your third party identities on these services on your MyBlogLog profile, we'll do the work to figure out if you're connected or not. If not, the green plus icon will take you to their page where you can connect (once direct authentication is supported, we'll build in-line friending). That's it! Now you can share links, music, and videos and stay that much more in touch with your friends. Use Connector to fill in the gaps in your personal social network.


Its a small (online) world after all.

It's tough being popular

Is your email inbox starting to look like you have been hearing way too much from MyBlogLog recently? It's ok, you can tell us to turn it down a notch.

It's awesome to have a lot of friends, and even more so being active in the hottest blog communities. But with messages coming in from other MyBlogLog members & the communities you follow, on top of your many friend requests and updates, we understand that sometimes all those alerts can be a bit much.

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Head over to your MyBlogLog profile and check out your Account Settings. All the way on the bottom, we have given you the option only send you the scoop on the updates you really need. Go ahead and let us know us to only shoot you an email when you get a message from another member, receive a friend request, community messages or if we send you a system notification.

Drop us a line if you need any help!

XOXO,

Tilly

Is that a blog post in your Messenger window?

If you upgraded to the latest version of Yahoo! Messenger for Windows  (9.0, Beta), you may have noticed a new type of status message next to your contacts which shows the latest articles they may have Buzz'd or changes made to their Yahoo Avatar.

Starting tonight, MyBlogLog is feeding in MyBlogLog activity (adding contacts, joining communities, tagging) as well as your most recent blog posts into Messenger as well. What's cool about this is that it makes your Messenger contact list really come alive, transforming it into a socially aware RSS Reader.

Now, before you IM your friend about the Celtics last night you can read their scathing blog post and adjust accordingly. Likewise, you can post to your blog and automatically notify everyone on your IM list that you're not in a particularly good mood this morning.

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