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May 28, 2007

MyBlogLog becomes an expert locator

Filed under: blogs, km

MyBlogLog is a blog network and community, basically you register yourself as a person and register your blogs, people can message you, and add you as a friend, they can also join your blog as a community fan.

So you could describe it as a social network for blogs, but now it’s even more, it is an expert locator based on explicit tags. This means yourself and others can tag your user space, and all your blogs.
Since I’ve only got one blog and I blog about all my interests, the tags for my user space and the tags for my blog are quite similar. I suppose I don’t blog about music, so I could tag myself with some music tags like “electronica”.

At the moment they don’t have a tag cloud so you have to append the URL eg. http://mybloglog.com/buzz/tags/folksonomy

Similar blog network type services as an expert locator are: ziki, others online, explode, blogcatalog…also see selected Lifestream services (these are similar to Ziki).

Ziki allows you to tag others, but this is only displayed in your view, whereas when you tag others in MyBlogLog it’s there on the general view, just hover over a tag and see who tagged that person with that tag…I wonder if they got this discover and reciprocate tagging from Fringe Contacts.

I guess the Technorati Blog Finder is an expert locator, like most of the others it’s only based on self tags.

MyBlogLog blog (that’s a mouthful) tells us that you can change the settings on others tagging you…it can be set at me, my contacts, everyone.

Roundup : 88 miles, minutesinaminute, FeedBlitz outbrain voting, Box - Office on Demand, Listigator

Filed under: tools, roundup

88 miles - timesheet manager and timer, thought I’d mention this since it is a local Perth based service…pseudocoder has more.
Others timesheet managers are: harvest, 1time, tick, toggl, fourteenDayz, intervals, Rotaboard, timeXchange, sidejobtrack, proworkflow, Worktimer, Time59, Freshbooks
Other timers are: slimtimer, TimeTracker

minutesinaminute - record your groups minutes, also comes with a shared calendar

FeedBlitz outbrain voting - people that read your posts via FeedBlitz email can now rate your posts (thanks to outbrain), and you get the handy feedback…other rating tools are listed here.

Box - Office on Demand - a plug-in to upload a Word document to Box (online file storage) via the menu bar in MSOffice.
Another feature (following in the footsteps of similar service, Omnidrive) is that you can click on a the edit document function in Box and edit the MSOffice document in Zoho (online office) and save it in Zoho, or save it back to Box in one click.
Basically you can have a web version of a word document stored in box, and still edit it offline, or edit it online with Zoho.
BTW, Slideaware is doing something similar with just Powerpoint. [via DI]

Listigator - lists you can share, lots of these of late (some are private/public, some share via invite, and others are communal wiki-type lists).

BONUS LINK:
The other week I posted about using Bitty Browser to view URL’s that are usually blocked by your work, school, etc…
Well I found that a simple phone browser like Phonifier is even better, only it’s not a widget like Bitty.
eg. New Feature: Article voting, powered by outbrain

Update: Mowser is the best so far.

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