MyBlogLog Gets Its Tag On
One of my main criticisms of MyBlogLog – a site that I’m very fond of overall – is that there’s not enough to do on the site itself, particularly in the Communities section.
Well, that’s starting to change as MyBlogLog is leveraging some of its new Yahoo-connections (MBL was purchased by Yahoo earlier this year) in adding tagging of Communities to the site. So now you can tag Online Media Cultist with words like online, media, crazed lunatic, sucks whale’s feet, and so on and people will be able to search and find the site using such terms (if you can’t be creative with tags, when can you be, I say!).
TechCrunch relates that the MBL community can vote tags up or down to increase or decrease its size in a tag cloud display, which is a very novel idea. It’s so novel, in fact, that I’m not sure anyone will care, but it’s very interesting nonetheless!
There’s also excitement about moves to cut down on spam on MBL, a widespread and long running complaint about the site.
I’m looking forward to seeing what other new wrinkles that MBL may have in store.
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- How will Twitter ever make money?
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- Grand Theft Auto IV goes very very old school
- Gadgets threaten the Internet’s future? Ridiculous
- The online video monetization equation (or, how do you make money on this stuff?)
- Using smart content aggregation and smart people networks to beat back the over coverage plague
- Creative destruction and the online video gold rush
- What’s in a game? (Or, how Grand Theft Auto IV reminded me yet again that everything’s changing quick-like)
- Grand Theft Auto IV is stunning
May 25th, 2007 at 2:17 am
Eric,
I’m also hoping this will help people find relevant blogs easier. Thanks for the attention
May 25th, 2007 at 9:04 am
Thanks Robyn! As I’ve written many times in the past, I continue to believe that the MBL widget is an absolutely killer app.
May 25th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
And the gaming begins! Check out mbl-deliciousbot and mbl-technoratibot, both accounts created within the past two days apparently just to tag certain blogs. No idea what it means — I’ve given up trying to make sense of all the ways people game these sites…
May 26th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
I spent about fifteen minutes playing around with the new tagging feature. I think it’s pretty cool, and fun. Hopefully it will make searching for blogs related around a subject easier, plus get people to spend more time on the MyBlogLog site.
May 30th, 2007 at 11:49 pm
Sprague - I imagine MBL will be chasing sploggers as long as it’s around!
Webomatica - I haven’t mess around with MBL’s tags much as yet. I tend to find tags most useful when searching, and I haven’t felt compelled to search for bloggers or content on MBL, come to think of it.