Many bloggers have already received an official email (copy below) letting us know that effective May 24, 2011 MyBlogLog is dead – another in a long line of valuable resources acquired and intentionally killed off.
This is another warning that selling a useful resource to those who want to control the Internet is a death sentence for that solution.
What do you think? Shall we delete our MyBlogLog widgets now or leave them on for a while yet? RIP MyBlogLog.
Watch this video (boring but important – note who is involved) created at Stanford University Forum about the proposed National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace. Read the text on this post about Controlling the Internet and pay close attention to the coverage on Business Week about the recently proposed Internet Identity Authentication Plan.
At about 37 minutes in, what the CEO of McAfee Antivirus says includes these phrases:
“… exponential increase in crime … the amount of malware … amount of insidious things we receive” …“a major pandemic”… “rise of crime” …. “state of terrorism and warfare”
Malware is a pandemic? He equates lack of proof of identity to terrorism. How DO these people keep a straight face?
I have never heard such tripe. Who is less trustworthy than government or the multi-national corporations who think nothing of experimenting on citizens without their knowledge as revealed in Freedom of Information requests and documented by National Geographic’s CIA Secret Experiments.
Truth IS stranger than fiction – this stuff really happened and is still happening. WAKE UP!
This proposal is an extreme threat to bloggers and blogging and I for one am sick of unwarranted fear being used to take away freedoms of all kinds. I for one say not just no but hell no to any more attempts to kill freedom of speech or expand the for-profit Law Enforcement Growth Industry.
If this nonsense actually gets implemented, those who refuse to further risk their freedom by registering for yet another system that can be used against us will either need a separate, private Internet – maybe something similar to the original bbs systems – or give up blogging and using the Internet altogether.
I encourage anyone who knows how to create an independent Internet – possibly using a private satellite – to contact me.
Dear MyBlogLog Customer,
You have been identified as a customer of Yahoo! MyBlogLog. We will officially discontinue Yahoo! MyBlogLog effective May 24, 2011. Your agreement with Yahoo!, to the extent that it applies to the Yahoo! MyBlogLog, will terminate on May 24, 2011.
After May 24, 2011 your credit card will no longer be charged for premium services on MyBlogLog. We will refund you the unused portion of your subscription, if any. The refund will appear as a credit via the billing method we have on file for you. To make sure that your billing information is correct and up to date, visit https://billing.yahoo.com.
Questions?
If you have questions about these changes, please visit the Yahoo! MyBlogLog help pages.We thank you for being a customer on Yahoo! MyBlogLog.
Sincerely,
The Yahoo! My BlogLog Team
What say you, my readers who once loved MyBlogLog? Should we delete the widget now or keep it while it is still available? Leave a comment and let me know. I’m about to remodel so now is the time to know.
Gail Gardner
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What is the substitute for MyBloglog by Yahoo.. Does google offers any such service
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Hi Ninas,
There really isn’t one. I suppose Google wants us to only use Google Analytics.
“or give up blogging and using the Internet altogether.”
The government should give up internet.
If they want to implement these kinds of bs then they are trying to implement a stone-age view of the world. Internet doesn’t fit into that.
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I’m so late… just found out that MyBlogLog is dead.
Thanks for the info.
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I still have no idea whether or not to remove the widget. I am totally undecided. I might leave it for a long while and see how things pan out in the future. You just never know what to do, things come and go and you have to keep up with the changes I guess.
I registered with mybloglog when I fist started my blog. It was known to be a great way to promote your blog.
I haven’t been active with it that much, but it is sad to see that big corporation are literally taking over the internet and not leaving room for anyone else.
Seems like yahoo is trying to catch up with Google, its buying creating new stuff left and right.
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I never attracted to MyBlogLog but I feel sad to those who already used the Yahoo service. What other Yahoo products have been axed by Yahoo?
I personally was never attracted by MyBlogLog. But it’s always kinda sad seen something die, specially when a lot of colleagues use it.
Although, this is not the first time Yahoo pulls the plug on something like this.
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I was quite surprised when I read the top notification in bloglog.
I intended to register there LOL but it will be closed in March, so looking for another alternative..
Hi Kimi,
If you are looking for MyblogLog alternative, I suggest you to try http://publishedin.com read more on our blog:
Yahoo to Shut Down MyBlogLog – Miss it? Publishedin Might Be Of Help
http://blog.publishedin.com/post/3519850188/yahoo-to-shut-down-mybloglog-miss-it-publishedin
Hi Yossi,
I approved your comment but I don’t see PublishedIn as an alternative to MyBlogLog. MyBlogLog is primarily used to see and connect with other bloggers who are frequenting our blogs. Blog Catalog and Google-something are more similar. (I prefer to avoid Google’s offerings – see the post I’ll put in CommentLuv in this reply for why.)
Isn’t PublishedIn more of a blog outreach tool similar to PostRank Connect or BlogDash? Am I missing something?
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MyBlogLog does a lot of things, but many users use it for tracking their outbound links (that’s by the way what they started with).
From MyBlogLog FAQ: Why do I need MyBlogLog?
MyBlogLog enables you to track that last little bit of information about your website. You probably already know where your users are coming from and you probably already know what pages they’re looking at while they’re there. However, if you have a blog or any other site where you frequently post new content on the main page, you don’t have a good way of tracking what people find interesting. One way is to track when people click on the links you provide. Up until now, outbound link tracking has been a pain in the butt, requiring CGIs and managed links. MyBlogLog makes this process easy.
Publishedin provides you a way to track your outbound links, and also to connect with the businesses you are linking, and send your readers to. We report your referrals to the businesses and allow them to reward you through Publishedin Reward-Per-click™ program.
Yossi,
Thanks for the link, I have visited it, but haven’t checked the detailed yet.
Definitely will do if I have time,
Thanks!
Yahoo always shutdown the service when it can’t make money anymore.
MyBlogLog is toast, but I also think BlogCatalog, Entrecard, CMFAds…etc all are likely to not last long, I see the widgets. Even Facebook is likely to kill NetworkedBlogs as they integrate Fanpages with blogs more I predict. It is becoming more seamless the integration between blog and Facebook which makes the whole point of NetworkedBlogs useless.
I’m not familiar with MyBlogLog but more troubling to me is the National Registry for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace initiative that is being proposed by the current administration. You hit the head right on the nail — this is not about security but about controlling freedom of speech. My question is — why haven’t the mainstream news media covered this issue?
[Hi Chuck… I kept your comment but am deleting the link because even though I personally believe it is none of the government’s business what people choose to do I have to draw the line on what type of links I can allow and which I delete so that more people can find this blog in the search engines. Even though medical is legal, my SEO expert friends advise me not to allow links to sites like yours. If you have any other non-adult sites that aren’t also among those that bloggers need to avoid let me know and I’ll add a link here to another site for you.]
Dude, is that true? Can outgoing links to medical sites really hurt your own blog or website that seriously? I honestly didn’t know that, and I’ve been doing SEO for several years.
About MyBlogLog: I never really used it for its right purpose anyways. All I did was to add and ping my RSS feeds when possible.
Overall, I didn’t even like the website anyways. I actually think it’s good Yahoo! did what they did 🙂
I think Google’s up next.
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Hi Nabil,
There are specific types of sites that bloggers need to avoid allowing links to which includes pharma /pills, gambling – even bingo and how-to-play-poker type sites, adult content, and whatever gets popular and Google-slapped such as Akai fruit and many how-to-get-rich type sites.
Chuck’s site had a different issue – something that is legal in California for medical purposes but illegal across most of the U.S. It is unwise to link to sites about that as well although John Sullivan has a blog with a domain name about that which has a PR3 pagerank.
I recommend reading the post I’ll put in CommentLuv in this reply. It is up to bloggers to fix the Google Monopoly issue.
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Looks like another one bites the dust. That’s too bad, Yahoo is only hurting themselves in the eyes of their supporters. I say toss the widget and to heck with it.
Adrienne
I suppose this is just another victim of Yahoo. Was it only their cash cow or do they really have issues running companies?
I believe shutting it down was their original intention because they do not want us to so easily find other savvy bloggers interested in collaborating because that gives us more influence faster. They just left it running this long because of the outcry.
See my post about Google and the videos in it for more details on where the Internet is headed if we don’t use our influence to get people to stop using all things Borg. I’ve put it in CommentLuv in this reply.
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Kinda makes ya wonder who blog catalog will invite to the party, don’t it? 😉
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That was my thought exactly. Kristi and I are discussing whether it makes sense to see if Blog Catalog will improve their offering and have us promote them or to eliminate that type of widget altogether.
I’m wondering if the widget will run on a page that we can add on a tab instead of having in our sidebars. We all need to reduce anything that slows page load. By putting it on a page that will allow us to still have the benefits and speed up our load times too.
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I doubt they’ll loosen on the widget restrictions. MBL might have been closest in services (practically clones) but there are still many competitors in the widget dept.
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Toss it luv, this is as legit a reason as you’re going to get for losing a widget that only slows you down anyway…ya know?
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This is actually the first time I’d heard of mybloglog but this whole thing is whack. The internet is so young still and moving so fast and there’s so much money and power involved.
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Hi Josh,
Yes, it changes quickly. Those who read this blog will have a lot more insights into who pulls what strings and how to accomplish their goals in spite of what is going on.
The also get the added benefit of me sharing their content and introducing them to collaborators and potential buyers for their products and services.
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Hey, I am mainly a silent reader of this blog. I suggest you keep the widget and this I say even after this official announcement by Yahoo to close MyBlogLog. I am also really confused with the way Yahoo is conducting its business as Alex, the first commenter here, is ! Will they also close Meme, their Twitter type social networking site, in the future ? I am keeping my fingers crossed !
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MyBlogLog makes it easy to see who the serious other bloggers are who frequent your blog and connect with them. Then we can collaborate on creating a better world. They don’t want us to do that so they are getting rid of MyBlogLog.
Have you seen the Hubspot lead generation solutions? That could be highly useful to you.
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I don’t understand Yahoo either, they buy great businesses and runs them into the ground.
I love delicious and they are taking it down.
Blo.gs was cool and I think useful for everyone and they bought it, then forgot about it.
Now, they are closing mybloglog, why don’t they just close doors and that’s it, why do they destroy this businesses. Do they want to be alone on the internet?
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They are good at some things Jocuri – but this wasn’t one of them! 😉
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IMHO it is intentional. They buy whatever solutions we can effectively use to create a better world and then let them stagnate until the outcry over their demise isn’t as loud.
As soon as Google, Yahoo, Bing or Microsoft buy something we use it is time to start looking for another independent alternative. See the videos in the post I’ll feature in CommentLuv in this reply and then it will make more sense why they’re doing what they do.
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