February 16, 2008 9:34 am
I need your input!
Hi everyone! By now
you should have
received an email
from Yahoo regarding
the "New with
Me" program that
will be aggregating
content from all
your social
networking
destinations such as
twitter and flickr.
I am working on a
blog post regarding
the announcement and
would love to get
your feedback on the
new MyBlog tools. Do
you like the idea?
Do you hate it? What
do you think of the
fact that Yahoo is
requiring you to opt
out, rather than opt
in?
If you did not get
the email here it
is
It took a long time
for word to get out
about our changeover
to
Yahoo! IDs. Lesson
learned. This time
we're reaching out
to you via
old-fashioned
email.
In a couple weeks,
we'll be launching a
new feature called
New with
Me. This feature
will use the URLs on
the Services tab of
your
MyBlogLog profile to
aggregate your
latest activity on
sites such as
Twitter, Last.fm,
Digg, and YouTube.
As a result, your
profile page
will look different
- publicly available
updates from the
services
you have listed will
be merged with your
existing
information. Your
latest Flickr
photos, Last.fm
tracks, and YouTube
videos, will all be
in one place.
Updates from your
contacts on
MyBlogLog will be
merged
and available as
well. Simply put,
the New with Me
feature will
transform your
static profile into
a dynamic one.
MyBlogLog respects
your privacy. We
will aggregate and
display only
information that is
publicly available.
If you're
uncomfortable with
MyBlogLog
aggregating and
displaying publicly
available
information
from a particular
service, you can
remove that service
from your
profile at any
time.
Of course, we hope
you're excited about
the broader
distribution of
everything you
produce on the Web.
If you use any of
the sites
featured in the
Services tab, you
know the value of
being able to
display all your
activity in one
place.
Your MyBlogLog
profile, About Me
widget, and Email
Signature were the
first steps in
distributing your
Web identity. New
with Me is the
next, pulling
together a unified
picture of who you
are on the
distributed social
Web. We have lots of
cool things planned
for this
feature -- I hope
you'll use it to
help build the next
generation of
the Web.
For details, please
check out our FAQ on
this feature.
As always, check our
blog for the latest
news from us.
See you online!
Ian Kennedy
Product Manager,
MyBlogLog