★ Yahoo! to shut down MyBlogLog
RWR reports that Yahoo! will shut down MyBlogLog. Well of course they will, this is yet another service that has a growing brother right inside the network : Yahoo! Profile. I asked about this situation to various Yahoos few months ago but none of them implied that such a move was likely to happen. Well I guess was personally waiting for that move and I honestly believe this is be a smart one.
From RWR
5 years to the month after it was founded, cross-blog social networking widget MyBlogLog will be closed down by Yahoo! in January, we’re hearing from sources close to the project. MyBlogLog is a service that shows blog writers and readers the faces and profile information of other MyBlogLog users that visit their sites.
MyBlogLog was a wildly innovative service that grew fast after launching and was acquired in January 2007 by Yahoo! for $10 million. It made a deal with users: give us your personal information and we’ll show you the faces of people who read your blog. That was a compelling offer and the resulting data amassed could have proven invaluable, had Yahoo! chosen to cultivate it and a developer ecosystem around it. That potential was so great, in fact, that sunset for MyBlogLog is downright tragic. It’s also likely to anger bloggers all around the web.
