MyBlogLog Adds About Me Widget

December 17th, 2007

Web Based Apps

MyBlogLog is known for a lot of different things, but probably the thing I think of the most when I think of the company is innovation. The MyBlogLog widget basically put MyBlogLog on the map for most bloggers, and they continue to add other widgets that continue to impress me.
Today I just noticed [...]

MyBlogLog Adds Join Community Buttons

November 21st, 2007

Web Based Apps

One sign of a great company is the willingness to grow, adapt, and accept user input.   After all, they are the ones using the service, right?  
A couple of months ago, I contacted MyBlogLog and recommended that they make some buttons available on their website.   Sounds easy enough, right?   You would think so, but it seemed like it [...]

MyBlogLog Adds E-mail Signature

October 26th, 2007

Web Based Apps

In case you already have a MyBlogLog account, you may be interested in a new feature that they have made available that allows you to easily create an e-mail signature.
You can access this new feature by going into your account and editing your profile, then going to the E-mail Signature tab and entering your information. [...]

MyBlogLog vs. BlogCatalog

July 24th, 2007

Web Based Apps

Over the past year, Andy Beard has been on top of the social services MyBlogLog and BlogCatalog, which are two services that try to improve on reader interaction with the author in the form of blogging communities. Because both services are very similar, it is only natural to compare the two at some point. In [...]

Wordpress Plugins: Personalize Your Comments with Avatars

July 14th, 2007

Miscellaneous

[This post is being written as a continuation of the discussion happening in the comments of Rhys' post, which among other things discusses which avatars plugin to use.] 
There are a lot of different ways to spice up your comments on your site, but my favorite has to be the personalized touch of having an avatar appear [...]

Technology Talk – 07/14/2007

July 14th, 2007

Technology

It has been about a week since I’ve done a new edition of technology talk, so here is some stuff that I found interesting while browsing the blogosphere this week:

Machinist celebrates the computer virus’ 25th birthday this year.  It all started in 1981 with a virus called Elk Cloner on an Apple II machine (figures Apple is [...]