Comments on: BlogIt doesn’t cut it http://www.metablog.us/blogging/blogit-doesnt-cut-it/ blogging about blogging about Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:59:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Pennsylvania Treatment Centers http://www.metablog.us/blogging/blogit-doesnt-cut-it/comment-page-1/#comment-40 Pennsylvania Treatment Centers Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:22:56 +0000 http://www.metablog.us/?p=48#comment-40 Both John McCain and Barack Obama have shown at least some ability to rein in costs. Each is spending no more than $250,000 on average for a prime-time Olympic spot, dramatically below what other advertisers are paying. _____ jackspar. Both John McCain and Barack Obama have shown at least some ability to rein in costs. Each is spending no more than $250,000 on average for a prime-time Olympic spot, dramatically below what other advertisers are paying.
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]]> By: JofArnold http://www.metablog.us/blogging/blogit-doesnt-cut-it/comment-page-1/#comment-37 JofArnold Tue, 13 May 2008 08:26:24 +0000 http://www.metablog.us/?p=48#comment-37 Was just looking on Summize.com for people still talk about BlogFriends and found this post. Thanks for the compliments; glad you liked the app whilst it was running :-D Jof Arnold i-together.com (the company behind BlogFriends) brainbakery.com (the coders behind BlogFriends) Was just looking on Summize.com for people still talk about BlogFriends and found this post. Thanks for the compliments; glad you liked the app whilst it was running :-D

Jof Arnold
i-together.com (the company behind BlogFriends)
brainbakery.com (the coders behind BlogFriends)

]]> By: Aziz Poonawalla http://www.metablog.us/blogging/blogit-doesnt-cut-it/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Aziz Poonawalla Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:28:38 +0000 http://www.metablog.us/?p=48#comment-36 David, I appreciate that you took the time to respond. I wantto clarify something though - what BlogIt does *not* need is another profile box, but rather the ability to post to the user's mini feed (and hence, show up in their friends' news feeds). There is a very big difference between a profile box and the mini feed. Frankly, a profile box is rather useless from the perspective of pushing your blog content out to your facebook friends' eyeballs, because most of a user's time is centered on the news feed, not the profiles. Its a shame that BlogFriends app is down because that app would have been a great demo for you to see what i mean. There are other blogger apps on facebook that pull in content from blogs and publish them on a profile box, so if BlogIt were to add that functionality it wouldnt make it stand out much. Profile boxes dont matter. David, I appreciate that you took the time to respond.

I wantto clarify something though – what BlogIt does *not* need is another profile box, but rather the ability to post to the user’s mini feed (and hence, show up in their friends’ news feeds). There is a very big difference between a profile box and the mini feed. Frankly, a profile box is rather useless from the perspective of pushing your blog content out to your facebook friends’ eyeballs, because most of a user’s time is centered on the news feed, not the profiles.

Its a shame that BlogFriends app is down because that app would have been a great demo for you to see what i mean. There are other blogger apps on facebook that pull in content from blogs and publish them on a profile box, so if BlogIt were to add that functionality it wouldnt make it stand out much. Profile boxes dont matter.

]]> By: David Recordon http://www.metablog.us/blogging/blogit-doesnt-cut-it/comment-page-1/#comment-35 David Recordon Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:04:51 +0000 http://www.metablog.us/?p=48#comment-35 Getting some of the "yeah, we all agree the composition interface is basic today" out of the way...I don’t disagree that if you’re doing a lot with tags, editing entries, etc then today Blog It isn’t the app for you. All of that sort of stuff is easy to add along with support for drafts, auto-saving, and the goodies we take for granted in most blogging clients (obviously blogging to TypePad or Movable Type from within Microsoft Word is a bit different than our normal expectations, though works great for a certain group of people). Believe me, a profile box pulling in your content has been something we've been talking about since Blog It originally came up as an idea. That said, we had to choose where to start so for a variety of reasons chose content creation over aggregation at the beginning for within Facebook. Also, apps like FriendFeed are already doing a great job of that within Facebook. A lot of that decision was really looking at what we'd need to build from an infrastructure perspective to make that possible on the scale needed to help make blogging better for everyone. Not only are we planning to build that infrastructure, but also to release it as open source like we've done with memcached, Gearman, and even now Movable Type. What I really believe in are the social aspects of Blog and feel It is those features that truly create the value. We were one of the initial launch partners for Facebook Beacon, but implemented it as opt-in from day one. On TypePad we saw a great response; bloggers want to tell people they know about their new posts. While we certainly will be adding features to the posting interface, I'd be much more interested in doing something much larger such as adding SMS posting for every blogger no matter the blog platform they use via Blog It. For more on my thoughts there, see my post "Why I Care About a Facebook App" http://daveman692.livejournal.com/332394.html. While today Blog It has a utterly simple composition interface, that will change, and we’ll also be adding more ways to get the word out about your content whether you use Blog It to post or not. Getting some of the “yeah, we all agree the composition interface is basic today” out of the way…I don’t disagree that if you’re doing a lot with tags, editing entries, etc then today Blog It isn’t the app for you. All of that sort of stuff is easy to add along with support for drafts, auto-saving, and the goodies we take for granted in most blogging clients (obviously blogging to TypePad or Movable Type from within Microsoft Word is a bit different than our normal expectations, though works great for a certain group of people).

Believe me, a profile box pulling in your content has been something we’ve been talking about since Blog It originally came up as an idea. That said, we had to choose where to start so for a variety of reasons chose content creation over aggregation at the beginning for within Facebook. Also, apps like FriendFeed are already doing a great job of that within Facebook. A lot of that decision was really looking at what we’d need to build from an infrastructure perspective to make that possible on the scale needed to help make blogging better for everyone. Not only are we planning to build that infrastructure, but also to release it as open source like we’ve done with memcached, Gearman, and even now Movable Type.

What I really believe in are the social aspects of Blog and feel It is those features that truly create the value. We were one of the initial launch partners for Facebook Beacon, but implemented it as opt-in from day one. On TypePad we saw a great response; bloggers want to tell people they know about their new posts. While we certainly will be adding features to the posting interface, I’d be much more interested in doing something much larger such as adding SMS posting for every blogger no matter the blog platform they use via Blog It. For more on my thoughts there, see my post “Why I Care About a Facebook App” http://daveman692.livejournal.com/332394.html.

While today Blog It has a utterly simple composition interface, that will change, and we’ll also be adding more ways to get the word out about your content whether you use Blog It to post or not.

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