Comments on: Something That Concerns Me About MyBlogLog

By: oneab cybered » ארכיון » האם גל מור פוגע בפרטיות הגולשים שלו?

oneab cybered » ארכיון » האם גל מור פוגע בפרטיות הגולשים שלו? — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 15:19:32 +0000

[...] אני לא היחידי שמוטרד משירות מייבלוגלוג. מייקל ארינגטון חושש מעוגיות ודר’ ג’יל ווקר אכלה את כל העוגיות שלה. דון פארק מודאג מאי היכולת לשלוט היכן הפרופיל שלו הופיע, אתה לא רוצה שהאווטר שלך יופיע באתר פורנו. אריק מרקוליאר, אחראי מייבלוגלוג, הגיב ואמר כי הם מונעים מאתרי מבוגרים להציג פרופילים של חברים ובמקרים אחרים החברים יכולים להחשיך את הפרופיל שלהם. עמוד מדיניות הפרטיות של מייבלוגלוג נקרא כמו סוג של כיסוי תחת לפרנואיד המצוי ומעלה המון שאלות אתיות. [...]

By: MyBlogLog - why opt out? at ( Jason Preston )

MyBlogLog - why opt out? at ( Jason Preston ) — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 20:14:48 +0000

[...] I know I’m a little late to this conversation, but I’ve been gnawing on sound bytes like Arrington’s: Still, I turned off the data collection and display feature for my account at MyBlogLog. I guess I haven’t gotten so used to the notion that all of our privacy is already dead that I am comfortable seeing my name and sites I’ve visited on a publicly available website. [...]

By: Search Engines WEB

Search Engines WEB — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 06:23:52 +0000

People do have the option of deleting their cookies - if they are truly concerned - or using an online Proxy.

But perhaps the theory is that Web 2.0 techies would want to network with one another - and would have no problem being open about what they visit.

This is an innovative form of Web 2.0 Viral Marketing

By: Jason M. Lemkin

Jason M. Lemkin — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:28:57 +0000

The bottom line is there’s clearly something creepy about having your picture pop up on a blog you visit, for all the world to see, without you fully intending it to.

I originally registered for MyBlogLog b/c I saw the other side of it - pics of folks I ‘knew’ popping on Craig Cmheil’s blog. Not sure most people will instantly realize that they are also losing a lot of anonymity and some privacy when they sign up for this ‘cool widget’.

Having said that, now that I know, I have’t turned off the display feature.

By: Eric Marcoullier

Eric Marcoullier — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 16:51:36 +0000

Just a heads up — porn is already silo’d so people can’t find themselves on an adult site. Feel free to sign up for MyBlogLog and surf adult sites with confidence in your anonymity.

By: fred wilson

fred wilson — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 13:01:19 +0000

there are clearly some websites that people may not want to show that they visit (politics, porn, gossip, etc). i think you ought to be able to opt out by domain or by category.

another thing that should be pointed out is the only way your photo shows up is if you have a profile on mybloglog.

and many people who have profiles in my community (about 500 so far) use avatars and handles so there is certainly an easy way to be anonymous and also an active member of the community.

i love this service. it’s the best thing that i’ve added to my blog in the past year for sure and i get value out of it every day as do many of my readers.

i would encourage you to add reader roll to the front page of your crunch blogs.

fred

By: Scott Rafer

Scott Rafer — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:30:20 +0000

@ Michael — Thanks for taking a close look, but there’s a different part of the Privacy Policy that is more important in addressing your comment:

When you visit a site that is using MyBlogLog’s Recent Readers widget, our system will add your profile picture to the widget, where it will be displayed for a period of time. The only way that the site knows that you have visited is to view the widget as you can. No person-specific information is provided to the site in any other way.

By: Chris Saad

Chris Saad — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:23:15 +0000

I agree that giving away your ‘clickstream’ as it were is probably a bit too much information. It is far too granular and ‘high-resolution’.

That’s why we are working on the APML (www.apml.org) format. The idea is to convert a clickstream and other high-resolution types of user breadcrumbs (email, files, opml etc) into a simple set of ranked interests.

It’s more portable, less granular and - with an identity and authentication layer - could be very useful for users when importing/exporting their profiles just like they do with their reading lists via OPML.

By: MyBlogLog is Watching You at twopointouch: web 2.0, blogs and social media

MyBlogLog is Watching You at twopointouch: web 2.0, blogs and social media — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 08:29:20 +0000

[...] The out-of-beta relaunch of MyBlogLog was covered twice today on Techcrunch. On the front page Marshall Kirkpatrick notes that the site functions as a automated social network around your blog using cookies to show the members visiting your site and allowing users to mine information about what sites they visit. Users automatically join a blog’s community after ten visits, though they can change this setting to be higher or lower, or entirely manual. [...]

By: howard lindzon

howard lindzon — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 07:45:13 +0000

Agreed and funny ending.

PS - she likes me too