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VentureBeat: MyBlogLog: The social networking company wants to profile your traffic

  • Dasher · 3 years ago
    Why would the readers want to use this? Why would I want to give permission to track my usage to this site or other blogs?
  • Scott Rafer · 3 years ago
    Hi Dasher,

    If you accept cookies into your browser, then you are already being tracked by several (or many) advertising networks. We're simply being more up-front about it and not using the information to target you with ads.

    The people that like what we're doing are looking for a deeper sense of community and participation with the blogs they read. They want a more complete way of identifying themselves to the site publisher(s) and their fellow readers.

    Scott
  • Matt Marshall · 3 years ago
    Great question Dasher. And thanks for responding, Scott. I've updated original post, which sorely needed to address this question.
  • Scott Rafer · 3 years ago
    Matt -- I think this extra sentence slipped in with your update. It was part of your emailed question that I said "No" to:

    "Readers have to be "very" loyal to take this step and affiliate with a
    > particular blog."
  • Matt Marshall · 3 years ago
    fixed.
  • Kevin Burton · 3 years ago
    I met with Rafer about a week ago and things at MyBlogLog seem pretty interesting. I'll probably be adding it to Tailrank (at least as an experiment at first) and see how it works out.

    Of course with any startup I just don't have the time to finish implementing it... :)

    Kevin
  • Scott Rafer · 3 years ago
    Kevin,
    As soon as you can fit us in, we'll be thrilled to you have you. Just paste the Javascript into your template, and we're on our way.
    Scott