Yahoo’s MyBlogLog drifts up the activity stream. Can it float against FriendFeed?
Yahoo’s blog community site, MyBlogLog, has launched a new acitivity stream (a list of activity from you and your contacts on a social site) portion of its site, which it’s dubbing “New with…”. While a nice addition for users of the site, this new feature simply doesn’t compare to similar products from competitors — namely, FriendFeed.
As you’d expect, MyBlogLog lets you enter your user name for dozens of services around the Internet and then aggregates… Continue Reading
SezWho lets you have say on blog commenters
Updated
Ever notice how some blogs are filled with mean-spirited, crude or self-serving comments, while others have few comments at all?
Palo Alto’s SezWho, a service that lets you build a reputation based on the quality of your online comments, thinks it can change that. It launched a test version publicly last week.
The company offers a widget that plugs into a blog’s comment board and adds the question “Was this comment useful to you?” after every reader’s… Continue Reading
Roundup: Cisco sues, Avvenu, Weatherbill, Techdirt, Blue Origin & more
Here’s the latest wrap-up of Silicon Valley tech news:
Cisco sues Apple over iPhone name — Who cares? If Apple loses, it will come up with a different name. Like, ApplePhone, or iPodPhone. Details of suit.
Yahoo signs deal with Akimbo to deliver video to televisions — Just the latest move in a huge number of deals pushing video to your TV. More details here.
Avvenu shares music via link in email — Avvenu, a Palo Alto start-up has been around… Continue Reading
Peanut Butter redux, expensive Sonsini, Hoffman burned, Infinera & much more
(Updated) roundup of the high-stakes game going on in Silicon Valley:
Brad Garlinghouse’s Peanut Butter memo — The Yahoo executive complained about the company’s “proclivity to repeatedly hire leaders from outside.” This is noteworthy, because he himself was hired from the outside. Before Yahoo, he’d served as chief executive at DialPad, and drove that company into the ground. We reached out to Brad Monday night, and hope to get comment soon.
Larry Sonsini can’t be at fault — Fortune… Continue Reading
Roundup: Digg, MyBlogLog, Sling, Trumba, Kongregate & more
Silicon Valley never sleeps. Here’s the latest tech stuff:
Digg subverted — The news site that ranks stories based on how many users submit them, is being subverted by a group called Spike the Vote. It lets its members conspire to submit certain URLs of stories — thereby lifting the odds those stories will get front-page coverage.
MyBlogLog goes live — This is a site we’ve mentioned before, while it was in testing mode. It hasn’t changed its basic… Continue Reading