Find Missing Links in your Social Networks with MyBlogLog Connector

Its a big world out there online, but MyBlogLog can help keep you connected. I think of the web as a huge city, with little neighborhoods that people hang out. The photographers are all kicking it at flickr, the chatterboxes are tweeting away at Twitter, and you got your musicians over at last.fm rocking out. MyBlogLog Connector makes it easier to be an online social butterfly and get connected with what's going on in Internet City.

 

We first gave you a place to show off what you are up to with New With Me, and gave you the tools to find out what places you hang out at. Then we took that one step farther by delivering you the updates online that are most interesting to you in New With My World, all the buzz online, based on what you have told us is cool.

Then it was time to mingle. Friender showed you who all the cool people are that live with you in Internet City, your friends of friends of friends. We help you make that initial handshake, "Hey! You know Jane too? No way! She's one of my best friends! We definitely should hang out". And with New with My Neighborhood, we kept you in the loop to what they were up to.

So now that we showed you what was going on in your city and introduced you to the people that you need to know. We are taking that last step further and showing you the neighborhoods where your friends hang out, and giving you the tools so you can hook up and hang out there together!

Check out Connector. Your own personal online social directory of where all your friends are! We give you a list of all the people you consider a contact, and all the social web sites they are using. We not only tell you the places they hang out, but the exact table they are sitting at. For now, making that first impression is up to you. We will point you to them, but its up to you to go over and sit down.

How does it work? Let's say you are connected with Jane on MyBlogLog and are chatting it up with her on twitter and sharing photos on flickr. Connector looks at the public friends lists on del.icio.us, Pownce, Digg, Last.fm, and YouTube to see if you're connected there as well. If you and Jane have shared your third party identities on these services on your MyBlogLog profile, we'll do the work to figure out if you're connected or not. If not, the green plus icon will take you to their page where you can connect (once direct authentication is supported, we'll build in-line friending). That's it! Now you can share links, music, and videos and stay that much more in touch with your friends. Use Connector to fill in the gaps in your personal social network.

Its a small (online) world after all.

Comments

[Ben]

Why you just took my breath away Miss Till.

[Ziru]

I need a little time to understand the new service, but it is useful after a second thought.

Unfortunately, some of my MyBlogLog contacts should already be connected (followed) with me on twitter. For some reason, I still see the green '+' icons for them. Is this a bug?

On the other hand, I could see some blue checks for some MyBlogLog contacts as to the Flickr services, which is good as to my understanding (already connected on Flickr, right?).

[Ziru]

Still, I am looking forward to the service filtering feature with better archive + search capabilities.

[ChaCha Fance]

Great feature, I'm loving it!

[Ziru]

I have 24 contacts on MyBlogLog, while only 12 shows up on the Connector page. Is this a bug?

[narendra.s.v]

wow :O so now am connected to each site :D

[Joseph Dunphy]

Guys ...

I tried to post a problem report on the mybloglog support board

http://www.mybloglog.com/gs/

and found that the system wasn't letting me do so, so I'll post it here, having no other way to get into contact with your team.

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In the wee hours of this morning, having just created a feed for my Stumbleupon blog that took one to reviews on that blog instead of to the sites reviewed (as the feed SU provides does) and entered that feed into the system here, I noticed two unpleasant truths.

a. While the feed was displaying my five most recent posts, would-be links to only two of them appeared on the new community page I had set up

http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/community/stumbleupon_blog/

b. These were only would-be links because somebody, quite cleverly, had set the system to strip away the final "/" from each of the urls linked to, turning

http://josephdunphy.stumbleupon.com/review/20149550/

into

http://josephdunphy.stumbleupon.com/review/20149550

and

http://josephdunphy.stumbleupon.com/review/20184785/

into

http://josephdunphy.stumbleupon.com/review/20184785

Before somebody says "Joe, aren't you being kind of anal retentive about this, I mean, what's the big deal" - in this case, that IS a big deal, because including or not including that final slash in the url is the difference between the link working and it not working. What good is a feed whose links have been disabled by the system?

I then went to another feed creating service, created another feed, entering the new feed in as the new primary feed, and the old as the secondary feed. Nothing changed. I tried removing the secondary feed. Still, nothing changed. Bleary eyed and frustrated at this point, I decided "fine, let's just delete the listing and start over".

The record of my authorship was deleted, but not the community. Huh? So I tried to claim the site, inserting the very code MyBlogLog's system provided in a new post on my blog, as directed, and got the message that MyBlogLog's system could not find the link! As of this moment, I still can not claim my Stumbleupon blog and manage its community, though, as as a service, Mybloglog's system still recognizes it as mine. However, as for editing the feed and profile photo - it's not happening.

In the words of my first year CS professor back in undergrad, "creativity is not always a good thing". What is truly driving me up a wall is the thought that for the system to strip away those final slashes from the urls, disabling the links on the feed, somebody had to program the system to do that, setting the stage for all of the fun that has followed.

Guys, whyohwhyohwhy would you do that and would you please stop doing that?

[Raymond T]

By being so interconnected, do you have a sense that Big Brother is watching over you? Heh heh heh

[Krispijn]

Nice one again! No I have to convince my contacts at MyBlogLog to fill in their other accounts... And Big Brother? Ain't that the guy who just left the building?

[Ian Thal]

Only three of my contacts show up on my connector page and only some of my services show up for that matter.

Raymond-

If you feel that interconnection is like being watched by big brother, you can always opt-out.

[Ian Thal]

Only three of my contacts show up on my connector page and only some of my services show up for that matter.

Raymond-

If you feel that interconnection is like being watched by big brother, you can always opt-out.

[amosgitai]

I use it for a long time. Very useful and a lot of new friends!

[kona]

Great feature, I'm loving it!

[janiof]

The Yahoo is the best. I like mybloglog in Yahoo, congratulations!

[Ian Kennedy]

@Ian Thal - we were having some trouble with the twitter API but have fixed it. Should be all good now.

[Ian Thal]

Ian Kennedy-

I don't use twitter at all, but my StumbleUpon, Myspace, and Facebook are amongst the ones that don't show up. Of course, most of my MyBlogLog contacts don't show up either.

[erich christoph-borger]

unbekannterweise ein netter gruß aus saarbrücken.
wünsche eine tolle, sonnige woche
erich

[Guenter Fink]

I need help what all people from me want.

Many Regards

Günter fink

[Guenter Fink]

I don't understand what I must making with flickr, yahoo and so on.

Many Regards

Günter Fink