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By on February 1, 2007

MyBlogLog Background and Feature Requests

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MyBlogLog is certainly the talk of the blogosphere these days. Readers know that I’m a big fan of the service – even though I can’t wait for their move to faster servers – and the company continues to add new users every day.

Lee Odden had a chance to ask Scott Rafer a few questions. Not too much info – Scott’s a busy man – but we do learn that they have over 50k users and growing by 2% each day.

Meanwhile, Shoemoney, has a list of ten features he’d like to see added to the service. If they’re open to suggestions, here’s mine:

  1. I love that the MBL avatar is added to comments, but if a commenter is not a MBL member, I show a small question mark. Maybe let me control what is shown instead, or at least display an invite to the commenter, to join my community.
  2. Provide some way to add friends en masse. I know this opens up the potential for spam, but if someone has added me as their friend, I’d like a faster way to reciprocate. Right now, I have to do one at a time, confirm the relationship, then go back to my community, and start again. Too cumbersome!
  3. In the widget, give me the option to display the visitor’s last comment. If they’ve visited, and left a comment, show that below their MBL name.
  4. It might be cool to offer a Flickr-type badge that displays random avatars of people who are part of my community.
  5. Speak to Michael Jensen, he has a few good tools made already.

I’ll keep thinking. Anyone else have a feature request?


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4 comments on “MyBlogLog Background and Feature Requests”

  1. Igor M. Says:

    February 1st, 2007 at 12:30 pm

    Andy … having some sort of Rank for the user would be nice. User can be ranked by their community count or by messages or any other contribution.

  2. MyBlogLog Wishlists - Stop Thinking Small : Blog Archive Andy Beard Says:

    February 1st, 2007 at 9:17 pm

    [...] I hate to say it guys, but all these wishy washy wish lists that appeared today really don’t give MyBlogLog the credit they truly deserve, or really explore the potential of MyBlogLog. Andy Beal has a few useful ideas. Shoemoney also has a list, but I am not going to link to him as he prefers invective to cover up his spamming activities. In fact Shoemoney’s list seems to be an attempt to control the problems his community marketing tactics initially encouraged. [...]

  3. Paula Neal Mooney Says:

    February 2nd, 2007 at 12:54 pm

    Hey, how’d you get the MBL added to these comments? What blogging platform is this? Thanks!
    Paula

  4. Scott Rafer Says:

    February 3rd, 2007 at 5:37 pm

    By your numbers,
    1. Agreed on the custom image. It’s one of those things we want to get to.
    2. How about checkboxes so you can just approve more than once?
    3. It’s a good suggestion but our comment features need to be defined. They’ll be a few months out, unfortunately.
    4. Random widget. fun.