MyBlogLog About Me Widget

MyBlogLog is all about connecting people to sites and each other. We strive to make the world wide web a little smaller, a little less anonymous. When you leave your avatar behind on a site that features the MyBlogLog Recent Reader widget, you're not only letting others know that you've been there, you're also leaving a pointer to your MyBlogLog profile where people can learn more about you, sites you author, and other services that you use on the web.

This gets back to something I've written about before, a vision that MyBlogLog can serve as a Domain Name Service (DNS) for people. DNS is a giant, distributed look-up table which turns a machine-readable IP address into something you and I can remember. DNS servers allow us to type yahoo.com into a browser and get to the page at 69.147.90.91.

In this same way, MyBlogLog has always provided an area in your Account page to store pointers to your various profiles that exist across the web. We first made these pointers available as an HTML signature file you could use in email. Based on the positive reception to the "Web 2.0 email signature," Manny Miller, the engineer who put that together, turned it around into a full-fledged widget that you can put onto your site.

There are tons of options on the About Me Widget configuration page. We've got a couple of default color schemes but if you click around the color field you can change pretty much everything you see. You can also select how much or how little you want to show on your About Me widget. Once you like what you see, grab the javascript and paste it into your side bar just like you have done with with Recent Reader widget (we made it the same 180px width so it'll line up nicely).  To access the configuration screen, just login in, click "Edit Profile" and you'll find it under the "Badge" tab.

See you online!

Comments

[Denis]

I post this here since the contact form at Yahoo! looks like a not so reactive form ...

It would be cool to fix the login problem I constantly face when trying to "merge" my Yahoo! ID account with my existing MyBlogLog account, so I would be able to let say use the widget of any other feature of the site ;)

SQL errors are so painful

https://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/yjoinm2/

You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ':10:{s:11:\"cid_prefill\";s:1:\"n\";s:7:\"cid_age\";s:2:\"34\";s:10:\"cid_age_mo' at line 1

[Leandro]

Hi, I'm tried to connect to MyBlogLog today and the system requested me to merge my Yahoo! account with MyBlogLog, so when I click on "OK, MERGE ME" (no matters what options I choose, I've tried many times different combinations) I receive this error:
You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ':11:{s:14:\"yIdAliasSelect\";s:9:\"pichicuta\";s:11:\"cid_prefill\";s:1:\"n\";s:' at line 1

And my account is not merged.

[n8]

Nice looking widget. I like the clean look with the combination of all the social services.

How's the load time on that bad boy?

[Ian Thal]

Is this new widget going to be restricted to the sites one can enter on one's MBL profile or is it going to be as flexible as the one provided by Wink.com?

[Jules]

I love this, it's so cool, but I can't use it. It's too wide for my sidebar, and I can't see where I can change the width like the other widget does.

Is this going to be an added feature, or am I just missing it somewhere?

[Manny]

Hi guys,

Regarding the width issue you can adjust that using some CSS wrapped in style tags directly under the widget code. For example:

#mbl_b_frame { width: 150px; }

..would shrink the default size of 180px to 150px.

[Ian Kennedy]

Dennis and Leandro, thanks for alerting us to the error. We're looking into it.

Ian, the widget can be used by anyone. The option to display sites that you have registered with MBL is optional.

[Ian Kennedy]

All clear on the earlier SQL bugs. Thanks for your patience everyone!

[Jon Henshaw]

So far, so good. I'm using it on my company profile page – http://sitening.com/about/jon/ – and I really like how it looks. I also like how you've integrated the style feature. There wasn't any delay from making color changes and then being able to refresh my page to see the updated look and feel.

[Ben Tremblay]

HiYa - the more I use it, the more I like it! ;-)

But the About Me ... got the colours almost right *grin* ... but ... there's only 1 of my blogs that shows up in the uhhh footer. And it's the one that points to the blog where it's sitting, which makes it look silly/redundant.

I must be missing something (Gawd, I gotta say, being told to join a Yahoo group to get support is off-putting.) but I've retraced my steps any number of times ... I don't get it ... the other blogs on my account are evidently present i.e. they're generating stats ... I dunno.

cheers
ben

[Reggie]

Wow, this is amazingly similar to my sidebar bling article posted on the December 9th. Take a peak here:
http://www.mytechopinion.com/2007/12/sidebar-bling-cross-promotes-your.html

[Ian Kennedy]

Ben,

Not sure what's going on. I'll have one of our engineers check it out.

Reggie,

Cool widget! I guess it's not as original an idea as we thought. I'll email you a clean graphic of our logo if you want to use that in your widget.

[Javo]

Sorry if this is not the correct topic but How can I delete "View Reader Community
Join this Community
(provided by MyBlogLog)" in the recent readers widget?? thanks

[Ian Kennedy]

You can edit this text out by manipulating the CSS (but we rather you didn't ;-)

[yoela]

i am new in my bloglog,tell me more pls

[mary]

good , i am learning

and merry christmas

[Fenng]

the "About Me Widget" is broken now ?

Could NOT display the script.

Seems several days ...

the error message :http://www.flickr.com/photos/fenng/2125826401/

[DaisyDeadhead]

My widget has not updated in about two weeks. My profile shows me who has visited, but their avatars are not showing up. What's the problem? I can't find anything like this in the HELP screen. If this keeps on happening, gonna have to take the widget completely off my blog, because *other* widgets ARE updating and it makes MyBlogLog look kinda INEPT by comparison.

Please HELP!?

[Olivier D. alias ze kat]

Nice widget, next step is to build lifestream with our personal & public content ;o)

One year ago, I submitted to Yahoo! France team to made fake of my LiFE-Line concept (lifestream based) on MyBlogLog... I think MyBlogLog is better place than 360 or Mash to apply my idea.

[Lee]

Hi, I have read the comments but i still see no fix for thewidth. the width is too big for my website and everything I try to fix it does not work. Can anyone help me out with this?

[Ian Kennedy]

@Daisy, I visited your blog and it looks like your Recent Reader widget is updating fine.

@Olivier, you're reading our mind!

[Sondan]

I would love to add the Recent Reader Widget to My Multiply site, but it does not allow javascript. You provided a non-java version for Wordpress: will you please make a non-java version available for Multiply at your earliest convenience?.

Thank You

[Louis Gray]

Ian and all, it looks great. How soon can we add user-submitted services, like FriendFeed, or others? I have a few in mind.

[Ian Kennedy]

@Sondan - a quick look around and I don't see anywhere to add either javascript or html code into a module where we could install the widget. Have you contacted anyone at Multiply for advice?

@Louis - we'll take a look at Friend Feed when we all get back from vacation. Thanks for bringing it up.

[Ian Thal]

Ian,

I may not have communicated clearly: does the new widget allow for one to place links to any page you choose to designate or just to those profiles you can register with MBL?