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Yahoo to rebrand mybloglog, and then what?: Yahoo is to make a number of changes to MyBlogLog, the stats service and distributed social network for blogs that it acquired at the beginning of the year. Speaking at Chicagos SOBcon at the weekend, recently appointed MyBlogLog community manager, Robyn Tippins, talked about Yahoos forthcoming plans for the service,...; Tags: Social Networks, Widgets; Blog posts 2007-05-14
Netvibes to make widgets universal; Digg to support OpenID; YouTube outsources filtering; mybloglog bans user: The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week...Digg to support OpenID. Earlier in the week, speaking at the Future of Web Apps FOMA conference in the UK, Diggs Kevin Rose announced that the site will soon support...; Tags: YouTube, MySpace, Widgets, Digg, The Social Web weekly; Blog posts 2007-02-23
Yahoo buys mybloglog: Yahoo buys MyBlogLogYahoo buying up...Seems like Yahoo is buying up companies left and right - just like Google. I wonder who will win in the end?Ash Gilpinhttp://www.ashgilpin.com; Tags: Yahoo! Inc., MyBlogLog; Discussion threads 2007-01-10
Yahoo's mybloglog purchase by the numbers: Yahoos acquisition of MyBlogLog.com is getting a lot of play in the blogosphere, perhaps too much for an acquisition reportedly valued at $10 million.Perhaps, it was Om Maliks man on the spot coverage for GigaOM that gives the story some heft. It was a nice account. Or maybe its the...; Tags: General, Web Technology, Yahoo, MyBlogLog; Blog posts 2007-01-09
News to know: Jobs live; Yahoo buys mybloglog: Notable headlines: Macworld:Jason OGrady will be blogging Steve Jobs keynote speech live today at noon EST, 9 a.m. PST. CNET roundup.Cingular seen providing service for Apple phone: report. Initial WSJ report on deal: Subscription required. Glance screen-sharing software now available for Macs.Macworld Expo wishlist: everything.ThinkSecrets Rumor recap.Mac A to Z.Macworld...; Tags: Wi-Fi, Yahoo! Inc., MyBlogLog, Apple Computer Inc.; Blog posts 2007-01-09

Yahoo buys mybloglog: MyBlogLog, the distributed social network for blogs and other online publishers, has been purchased by Yahoo. The fee has not been disclosed, though Forbes is reporting that its around $10 million. Rumors of a Yahoo buyout have been circulating the blogosphere for a few months now, but have always...; Tags: Social Networks, MyBlogLog, Yahoo! Inc., Eric Marcoullier; Blog posts 2007-01-09
Interview: mybloglog co-founder, Eric Marcoullier: MyBlogLog lets publishers set up a social network around an existing blog, so that they can learn more about their readers, and enable them to connect with one-another. Fred Wilson is an admirer - not least because of the social networks interconnected nature, compared to the silos of MySpace, Facebook...; Tags: MyBlogLog, Social Networks, Widgets; Blog posts 2006-12-15
Best blogging moves of 2006: From Amazons AStore to MyBlogLogs community-building widgets, some things have worked very well for my personal blog and here at ZD Net. But there is also a trend toward hard-and-fast rules of blogging being declared that needs a firm rejection if the medium is going to continue to evolve. ...; Tags: blog, Business &, Technology; Blog posts 2006-12-11

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Facebook, social capitalists and open networks: As the stock market roller coaster continues, the concept of social capital accrued via social networks is starting to become an important commodity. People are flocking to Facebook and other social networks, partly to experience the latest online trend and for those who latch on to a particular network, to...; Tags: Facebook, Network, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-08-06
Facebook, show us the money: With Facebook's heritage as a social network for students, it must the perfect platform for advertisers hoping to penetrate the college campus, right? Wrong. According to a UK consultancy firm which specializes in student and graduate recruitment marketing, click through rates have been on the extremely low side -- 0.04%...; Tags: Facebook; Blog posts 2007-07-12
Yahoo's search for itself: While Google leads the way with search and advertising dollars, Yahoo is trying to establish its unique market position with a new tagline: "To connect people to their passions, communities, and the world's knowledge."Google's tagline--"Organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful"--recently augmented with "Search, Ads &...; Tags: General, Social networking, Web Technology, Yahoo; Blog posts 2007-05-16
Mashups: The next major new software development model?: At last weeks Mashup Ecosystem Summit held in San Francisco and sponsored by IBM with an invited assemblage of leading players in this space, I gave an opening talk about the current challenges and opportunities of mashups. And there I posed the title of this post as a statement...; Tags: Gadgets, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, Enterprise 2.0, Collaboration, Business Process Management, Business Models, Blogs, Badges, Ajax, Global SOA, Lightweight Service Models, Mashups, Open APIs, Products, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), RSS, SaaS, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SOA, Social Software, Tolerance Continuum, Web 2.0, Web as Platform, Web services, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA), Widgets, Wikis; Blog posts 2007-05-14
Fox News on Second Life; YouTube presidential campaign; Explode adds new features; and more: The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week…Fox News does a hit job on Second Life and John Edwards unofficial virtual campaign. Kirsten Powers in her first video blog for the news channel reports on Second Life,...; Tags: Politics 2.0, Second Life, The Social Web weekly, Video Sharing, Widgets, YouTube; Blog posts 2007-03-02
Explode, a meta-social network: Explode, a new service from Curverider the British startup behind Elgg, is described as "a simple way to connect to all your friends regardless of what [social] network they belong to". Its essentially a meta-social network, the result of which is a widget that displays a list of all of...; Tags: Social Networks, Widgets; Blog posts 2007-02-20
Yahoo: Executing for shareholder value: A confident Terry Semel, CEO Yahoo, presented his company’s Q4 2006 results to Wall Street yesterday. Semel’s principal message: Yahoo is on track to deliver increased shareholder value in 2007 and beyond.Semel began with Yahoo objectives announced at the Q3 earnings call:To improve search monetization.To widen our lead in graphical...; Tags: Uncategorized, Business Models, Advertising, Search, Culture, Yahoo, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Social Media, Metrics, Search Advertising, Yahoo! Inc.; Blog posts 2007-01-24
Is Yahoo a technology company?: Is Yahoo a technology company?I like to see lot of large technology companies in web spaceaaahh, CEO should have deep technical knowledge?To me, only three skills are enough to be a CEO, 1) Excellent in brainstorming, 2) Aggressive in exploring new domain, 3) Listening, listening and listeningyeah, I don’t have...; Tags: Channel management, Strategy, technology company, Yahoo! Inc., big company; Discussion threads 2007-01-19