2008 State of the Log

Man... What a long, strange year it has been.  Where to start...

Somehow, a few people still don't know that MyBlogLog was acquired by Yahoo! last year.  John Sampson, Steve Ho and I are still at MyBlogLog.  Eric Marcoullier and Scott Rafer have moved on.  Scott has a new startup called Lookery.  Eric, who has started blogging again, is working on a new *stealth startup*.

We have been joined by some amazingly talented people:

Ian Kennedy

Our new, super-connected product manager and all-around great guy

Chris Goffinet

Programming master extraordinaire

Manny Miller

Our UI/Javascript/Widget man

Raymund Ramos

We have an Ops guy now as you may have noticed from our faster service and lack of down-time.

Mani Kumar

Mani is working on a project we can't talk about yet from our Bangalore offices.

Saurabh Sahni

Saurabh is also working on a project we can't talk about yet from our Bangalore offices; but is currently visiting us in the States.

Robyn Tippins joined the team during the year as Community Manager where she did an amazing job.  She has since moved on to a new role inside Yahoo!

Luckily, the entire team was spared from the recent layoffs at Yahoo! and, amazingly, has continued to be more productive than ever during this period; as you may have noticed from recent blog posts.

So, how is the MyBlogLog service doing these days?  Not to shabby; if we do say so ourselves.  We are now averaging 22,000,000 widget impressions a day across 275,000 community sites.  This is up from 8,000,000 widget impressions a day across 47,000 communities in January 2007.  We have also gone from 97,000 reader to community connections to 1,653,000 connections.  Further, we now have over 100,000 3rd party service IDs for our members which will be integrated in the upcoming "New with Me" service.

So, we have made a lot of progress over the last year.  We have moved to Yahoo! infrastructure.  Added an additional data-center with service redundancy.  We have integrated with Yahoo! IDs to allow further distribution.  We have launched new widgets.  And we have continued to remain far and away the Web's largest distributed social network.

We have a number of great things on the horizon for the next 12 months.  The new API will be launching.  We will be integrating further with Yahoo!  And we have a bunch of projects in the works that we aren't quite ready to talk about yet.  Stay tuned... It should be fun.

Comments

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Thank you for this information and best wishes for the new personnels.

[Eric Marcoullier]

Did this get run through legal? ;)

Miss you guys!

[Olivier D. alias ze kat]

I submit to change your users target and make hudge straight in this way accross another Yahoo!'s products...

Example:
- My users-profiles will support MyBlogLog. Because lot of my (future) users hadn't a personal blog.
- I manage several Yahoo! Groups... But Groups UI don't support MBL widget
- Instead 360 or Mash will died, they don't support your widget.
- Yahoo! LIVE may support your widget... I REQUEST IT, highly usefull !
- Will Inbox 2.0 will support MBL ?

Right, it's time to view beyond blogs communities... Perhaps require to change your name ;o)

[Todd Sampson]

@Eric: Miss you too man.

@Olivier: Thanks for the suggestion. I very much agree with your recommendation and hope that we can see that happen.

- Todd

[Solomon]

Hi,
I request you to alter my name which is being appeared as: "creativesolomon" to "Solomon". I couldn't do it myself. I didn't find space to keep my profile: few lines about myself.
I'll be grateful for this help of yours.
Thank You!
Solomon