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FeedSmith - Feedburner have an official Wordpress plugin that re-directs requests from your native feeds to your Feedburner feed.
A while back I stop promoting my native feeds (ie. took then off my sidebar), even though they are not promoted doesn’t mean they don’t work…my issue was that I wanted all the people subscribed to my native feeds to subscribe to my Feedburner feed. I blogged about this, but looking back I still have lots of people subscribed to my native feed…only issue about this whole scenario is I want to track all my subscriber statistics. Anyway FeedSmith has come to save the day, let’s see if my blog host will now help me out, as now there’s no coding involved, just a simple plug in.

Feedest - a crack at social bookmark for feeds…tags, notes, user space (also user tag spaces), you can also read the latest posts from a feed, and each feed has a details page.
Missing - OPML for tags, OPML for a user, OPML for user tags

Flurry updates - Flurry is a free downloadable email application for your phone, you get some web space to configure your phone email.
New features are: SMS notification for new emails, search your email, subscribe to RSS feeds and widgets. Now that everyone’s doing it, their new homepage is promoting favourite community feeds.
I wonder how long it will take for Flurry to end up on the Feedburner landing page.

iotum Talk-Now - this reminds me of the “The Swarm” idea, ie. a mobile presence indicator (your availability…kind of like a public contacts/calendar).
People won’t both ringing you if thay know you won’t answer the call right then and there, so instead of calling you and leaving a voicemail, they will cue that call in the To-Call list (as soon as that person becomes available, you will somehow be notified, probably a vibrate or beep, that they are available.
It’s not really a mobile social network, it’s more of a contacts/calendar network.

TwitBin and Tweetbar - Twitter on your sidebar
[via TC]

We all love how MyBlogLog and blogcatalog enable a blog publisher to see who the Recent Readers (site visits) of their blog are via a widget.

Feedburner generates our subscriber numbers, but it is not a social network where we can see who our subscribers are (some sort of user space) or if they have a blog of their own. When someone subscribes to your blog they don’t have to register with Feedburner, this would be a hassle.

Instead SYO allows you to share your OPML so you can indeed see who subscribes to your blog, but this is not a complete picture, it’s just based on the SYO community, ie. you can add blogs/feeds outside of the community (your OPML Reading List), but to see who subscribes to your blog requires people to join SYO.

MyBlogLog and blogcatalog are the same, you join and add blogs and people as friends, it’s kind of like creating an OPML Reading List/People list, but only from a closed pool of users.

NOTE: I think SYO is easier and more complete as you just load up your OPML, whereas in MyBlogLog and blogcatalog you can only add blogs that are present within the system.
But in both services you still need people to join (add users/friends) so you can compare Reading Lists.

In the end I think a service like MyBlogLog could include a feature like the SYO service, ziki has done this but not gone full ahead with what you can do with the data.

Anyway…the reason for this post is about Grazing Lists, see below.

Recent Readers OPML Grazing List

Both MyBlogLog and blogcatalog track site visits to your blog from users in these communities, all you do is whack the widget in your blog sidebar, and you can see the lastest current readers of your blog (not your feed, but your blog).
You can click on their image and go to their user space to view their details: blog, friends, blogs they follow, users that follow their blog, etc…

Now what I say is why do we have to go to MyBlogLog to see all this when the Recent Reader widget could be an annotated Grazr widget, like Twazr.

Your Recent Reader widget would have a hidden Grazr Widget for each user (avatar).
You would click on an image in your Recent Readers widget and it would open an outline with the following nodes: that users blog feed (click again to read the feed contents)…other nodes would be friends (click on this to see a list of friends, then click on each friend, and so on, the outline could go forever)…more nodes could be blogs they follow, and blogs that follow them (again click on these blog feeds to read the contents).

For the time being a Grazr widget hack so I could just read the blog content of my Recent Readers would be all I want.

This basically means my Recent Readers widget has an OPML, I could put this into Grazr and bookmark it whenever I want to look at it.

I like the idea of feed shopping and reading the latest posts of a feed right then and there, so I know whether I want to commit to subscribe in my RSS Reader.

Further to this a Grazing List is an ever changing list of feeds, and this is what the MyBlogLog Recent Readers widget is, a perpetual changing list of people/blogs based on these people/blogs visiting your blog site.

Would you love to go to a daily page where it lists the blog feeds of the most recent people who have visited your blog, and be able to sample the latest posts of these feeds?

blogcatalog is a blog social network and directory, it really reminds me of MyBlogLog.

Features

Browse folders, tags, country, user, language or search…here is a directory entry, and here is a tag entry (both of these have RSS feed updates).
Something else I noticed is that you can search within blog post tags, ie. find posts tagged with a tag, is this an attempt at Technorati Tags?

Here is a random user, sections are:

Neighbourhood - blogs you follow
Friends - users you follow
Recommneded neighbour’s - this must be users similar to you based on your friends and who you follow
Recent Viewers - with widget and all, just like MyBlogLog
Shoutbox - messages

Here is an example of a blog space, sections are:
Details - info/specs
Latest posts
Comments
Neighbourhood - users that follow your blog
Related blogs
Blog stats
Rate blog

blogcatalog also has a discussion forum, and you can even save your favourite items.

All that I see missing is real-time chat and uploading your OPML Reading List, to encroach into the SYO area.

Ziki is similar, but different, you can re-syndicate all your stuff in a Lifestream, upload your OPML Reading List, blog posts, tag yourself, message people…one is a blog social network, and the other a people social network (both discoverable by tags).

mashable also notes that Technorati could become a blog social network, at the moment for each blog it lists users that have “favourited” that blog (almost like adding a friend…only displayed as a Public RSS Reader), next it could list site visits, just like MyBlogLog and blogcatalog.
I also mentioned how Technorati could absorb the service AutoRoll as a feature.

I really like the idea of blog communities:

MyBlogLog/blogcatalog - fans of your blog, site readers, recommended blogs/people
SYO - Social OPML Reading List…find people that have similar Reading Lists, see people who subscribe to your blog
AutoRoll - people who visit your blog also visit these blogs
Feedburner - records the number of subscribers to your blog

My only gripe, like I mentioned in Personal Network Clouds post is it is a real effort to join a blog community and start adding blogs as friends, haven’t I already done this with my blogroll or RSS Reader subscription list…can’t I just plug in this OPML into a service, just like SYO.