MyBlogLog Brands All Social Media Optimizers As Schmoes
May 25, 2007 at 11:11am ET by Danny Sullivan
So MyBlogLog has tagging. Yawn. Then
I saw Andy Beal
highlighted this part of MyBlogLog's
post about the new feature
Spam - If you think someone is spamming you, tag it out loud! Internally, we
like to call a user who games the system a SchMOe (Social Media Optimizer).
Internally, you know, I like to call anyone who stereotypes an entire
industry by the actions of a small number within it kind of stupid.
Fair enough to ask anyone seeing MyBlogLog spam to tag that with the word
spam. But calling an entire industry a bunch of spammers? Not smart, frankly,
when some of those in that indust [...]
Filed in: Social Media Marketing, Yahoo: MyBlogLog
Interview With MyBlogLog CEO Scott Rafer & 10 Feature Requests
Feb 1, 2007 at 9:24am ET by Barry Schwartz
Lee Odden has an interview with MyBlogLog CEO Scott Rafer, where he asks questions about how he transitioned from Feedster to MyBlogLog and covers the growth of MyBlogLog.
In a related article, Jeremy Schoemaker at his Shoemoney blog posted a 10 Things I Wish MyBlogLog Would Do article. All of his requests would be useful add-ons to the program.
[...]
Filed in: Yahoo: MyBlogLog
The Social Side Of Trustrank
Jan 10, 2007 at 12:40pm ET by Bill Slawski
A newly published patent application from Yahoo, Using community annotations as anchortext, provides a hint at some of the research and work that Yahoo is doing to incorporate user created tags, annotations, bookmarks, and social profiles into the way that they index and organize information, and rank that information.
Danny asked me if I would mention a recent SEO by the Sea post here, where I went into some depth on the processes described in that document. It is at Social Trustrank and User Annotations as Anchor Text. One of the most interesting aspects the patent covers is how trustrank [...]
Filed in: SEO: General, Search Engines: Social Search Engines, Yahoo: Delicious, Yahoo: MyBlogLog, Yahoo: SEO
Yahoo Acquires MyBlogLog & More On How It Works
Jan 9, 2007 at 7:39am ET by Danny Sullivan
After several weeks of rumors, Yahoo has
officially announced it has agreed to purchase the MyBlogLog service. I've
used the service for several weeks on my personal blog
Daggle and the
Daily SearchCast and found it
pretty compelling. I've just added it now to
Search Engine Land. It allows you to easily let anyone join and see your "blog
community." You'll find some discussion of the sale via Techmeme
here and
here. Below, I'll
cover more on the basics of how it works from blog surfer and blog owner
perspective.
MyBlogLog works by having you insert
JavaScript tracking code on all y [...]
Filed in: Yahoo: MyBlogLog
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