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MyBlogLogFriendFeed Integration Fouling Up Google Vanity Searches

Source: louisgray.com

Aug 13, 2008

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Practically every blogger performs regular "vanity searches" to see if they were mentioned on the Web. Some use Technorati, others, Google Blog Search, or Twitter Search. And Google has made it very easy to get alerted via e-mail if your name has been mentioned out in the blogosphere. But recent efforts by MyBlogLog's "New With Me" feature, integrated with FriendFeed, have resulted in an overflow of useless updates, whether you're searching for yourself, or anybody else active on both sites, adding a flood of noise to what used to be actionable search results.

My pre-saved Google Blog Search watches the Web for me.
In February, MyBlogLog made a big move into the lifestreaming space, by doing more than tabulating fans of your content and tagging your blog with keywords, but letting you see your friends' activity around the Web, including their participation on Twitter, Last.fm, Digg and other social sites.

In May, no doubt in response to users' requests, MyBlogLog added the ability to show FriendFeed comments and likes in their lifestream, adding the popular soci ...Read the full article

Comments (3)

Eristoddle,

Aug 13, 2008

I won't have anything to do with the MyBlogLog updates thingy. It does give you way too much crap, it shows up as links in Google blog search and the "Friender" gives everyone the ability to build about 2000 friends an hour. Everyone else worries about spam and Yahoo creates it.

Wayne Smallman,

Aug 13, 2008

I have very few good things to say about MyBlogLog. But I do have a few suggestions for how it could be improved:

1. First of all, they need to dump the incredibly restrictive interface and get the guys in from their stable mate Flickr to work on a total re-design. (note: I originally wrote this in an article of mine prior to the recent UI update — which, incidentally, isn't exactly blowin' my skirt up!)

2. Speaking of Flickr, the integration of which is appallingly “me too!” so some actual effort needs to be made there.

3. A proper email and messaging client.

4. Some method or grouping, removing, editing and re-classifying our list of contacts.

5. The new “About Me” widget is a step in the right direction. Why isn’t our profile page like that?

6. Better web traffic statistics.

7. Some kind of stewardship from Yahoo! rather than the hands-off approach of present.

8. More widget customization options.