This link has been bookmarked by 3 people . It was first bookmarked on 21 Feb 2007, by Marcel Weiss.
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25 Feb 07
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21 Feb 07
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The creators of Explode report that they will soon implement widget skinning, OpenID and an API. Explode is a simple system, but it solves a very clear problem of siloed social networks without asking people to abandon the services they are already invested in.
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Unfortunately MyBlogLog has been plagued by problems. Spammers (nothing personal Mr. Online-Pharmacy, thanks for reading my blog) are relatively easy to block from your widget but identity problems have been a bigger challenge. From my face appearing in comments left by my friend after I borrow his computer to my boss’s face appearing in comments I leave because we co-author the same blog to Michael Arrington’s dog’s face appearing next to comments I leave around the web for who knows what reason - MyBlogLog cookies have a tendency to get mixed up. This month’s spate of random invitations to be added as co-author other users’ blogs was just the most recent issue. On top of it all, I now find myself unable to gracefully deny having read a post on someone’s blog once my face has appeared in their sidebar.
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Even if these problems were all solved, there’s a level of data capture by Yahoo! via the service, and subsequent lack of access on the part of users, that’s disconcerting. You can opt out of a lot in MyBlogLog and still use the service, but it’s not at all obvious how to do so. An open source, community based alternative could prove very welcome.
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