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Interesting Techmeme Visitors That Came to Read MyBlogLog News

There were interesting visitors that stopped by to read my MyBlogLog post! I thought you might like to learn about some of them.

First I wanted to report that this Techmeme only event had an average visitor page view of 3.23 yesterday.

Several months back, I had a major Digg event (Chicago Comcasted) had an average visitor page view of 2.35.

The MyBlogLog post had significantly lower page views overall, but had many other fresh posts written and indication of higher engagement. While you could draw other assumptions here, I’d rather wait to see some other data.

Below is a random sampling of some of the interesting readers that visited the site during the event:

Takuya Misawa, a Japanese Social Entrepreneur

Blog Potato, a site that is trying to build the world’s largest blogroll (feel free to sign up!)

Chris at 10e20, who envisioned a possible version of the rebranding back in January.

Cameron Barrett, someone who has had a blog dating back to 1997 at the urging of Dave Winer.

Stewart Mader, writer of Using Wiki in Education, which is a neat resource.

Loren Baker from Search Engine Journal, who whipped up a great post of his own on MyBlogLog (Always good to see you Loren!)

Roybn Tippins, who originally shared the MyBlogLog info with 100 people.

Ian Kennedy, who writes a blog called Flashpoint – he apparently shares my financial services background from his days at Lehman Brothers and currently works for Yahoo!

Chad Dickerson, who runs the Yahoo! Developer Network seems like a naturally networking and fun guy!

Mark Fulton, who among other things is an authority on domain name investments.

Jacob Share, owner of Jobmob.

Eric Berlin, the Online Media Cultist.

Patrick Schaber, The Lonely Marketer

Dan a “slacker” from Australia who authors The Wrong Advices.

The folks at the Weblog Tools Collection.

Brie from A New Wave of Thinking.

Thanks for stopping by, I hope to get to know you all on a deeper level as time goes by. Please feel free to subscribe to my RSS feed if you have not already done so. Thanks! See you soon.

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Google Meets The Axis of Evil Comedy

Last week, I heard a comedian named Ahmed Ahmed, who is touring on the “Axis of Evil Comedy Tour”, via a radio interview in which he was asked what it was like having the same first and last name. Much to my surprise, he started talking about how a guy on the FBI’s most wanted list – Ahmed Mohanned Hamed Ali – shows up right next to his when you type – Ahmed Ahmed – into Google…notice the first and second entries in the first of the two photos below. Ahmed has a point when he states that when typing in Ahmed Ahmed twice he doesn’t find the result relevant as I don’t either. But the oddity of this doesn’t stop here…

At present if one types simply – Ahmed – into Google, Ahmed Mohanned Hamed Ali does not show up at all in the top ten results! Even more bizarre is that there are other Ahmed’s that show up prior to him Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah (page 4) and Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan (page 6).

So I’d like to ask Matt Cutts and Adam Lasnik, search evangelists at Google, just why does Ahmed Mohanned Hamed Ali show up for a search for Ahmed Ahmed and not Ahmed?


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MyBlogLog to Rebrand and Make Significant Changes

At SOBcon yesterday in Chicago, Robyn Tippins, who was recently hired as the MyBlogLog community manager, spoke about several major upcoming changes with MyBlogLog.

There are several changes in the works:

1) The biggest news is that there will be a rebranding of MyBlogLog. The exact timing and new brand were not revealed. (YahooBlogLog or MyYahooLog? Time will tell.)

2) A complete site redesign is on the way!

3) A new “Widget 2.0” is coming with some hover features.

4) Yahoo! is hard at work to remove the offensive photos so that MyBlogLog would be palatable to more conservative business blogs.

5) Some sort of method to turn off your presence for some types of sites will be added.

As they do not have these changes locked in, Robyn would love your comments and feedback. To not overwhelm her, please drop your comments below.

Analysis: The rebranding is not a surprise move. MyBloglog is really only known amongst the first adoptors and blogosphere and getting the Yahoo! name is front of more people in a soft way is a good move. Yahoo! seems committed to making these changes, while listening to suggestions and making the product more dynamic. Looks like the best is yet to come from MyBlogLog.

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Mother’s Day 2007: A Search Engine View

Fresh from having a nice breakfast with my Mom on this Mother’s Day, I decided to take a look at the search engine offerings.

Live.com – no offering visible upon my visit.

Ask.com – real nice offering of a heart with a tattoo looking thing that says “Mom”
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Google –

Yahoo! – Nice crayon coloring the logo with a nice note. See the full animation by clicking this link.

Winner: Yahoo! who got the meaning of the day put into full action! Congrats Yahoo!

Happy Mother’s Day Mom!!!

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Upcoming Yahoo! Presentations – Terry Semel & Sue Decker

These upcoming events will be available for streaming online.

Yahoo! to present at the Deutsche Bank Technology Conference and
Goldman Sachs Internet Conference during the month of May.
Tim Cadogan, SVP, Search and Listings Marketplaces will present at the
Deutsche Bank Technology Conference. The presentation will take place
on Thursday, May 17, 2007 at 1:30pm Eastern Time / 10:30am Pacific
Time.

Terry Semel, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and Susan Decker,
Head of Advertiser and Publisher Group, and CFO will present at the
Goldman Sachs Internet Conference on Wednesday, May 23 at 9:15pm Eastern
Time / 6:15pm Pacific Time.

A live webcast of both presentations will be available on the Investor
Relations website at
http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/calendar.cfm?CalendarID=5.