http://venturebeat.disqus.com/News about Tech, Business and InnovationenTue, 04 Jul 2006 14:38:52 -0000http://venturebeat.com/2006/07/03/mybloglog-the-social-networking-company-wants-to-profile-your-traffic/#comment-14666543<p>Kevin,<br>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.<br>Scott</p>Scott RaferTue, 04 Jul 2006 14:38:52 -0000http://venturebeat.com/2006/07/03/mybloglog-the-social-networking-company-wants-to-profile-your-traffic/#comment-14666542<p>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.</p><p>Of course with any startup I just don't have the time to finish implementing it... :)</p><p>Kevin</p>Kevin BurtonTue, 04 Jul 2006 11:09:57 -0000http://venturebeat.com/2006/07/03/mybloglog-the-social-networking-company-wants-to-profile-your-traffic/#comment-14666541<p>fixed.</p>Matt MarshallTue, 04 Jul 2006 07:04:27 -0000http://venturebeat.com/2006/07/03/mybloglog-the-social-networking-company-wants-to-profile-your-traffic/#comment-14666540<p>Matt -- I think this extra sentence slipped in with your update. It was part of your emailed question that I said "No" to:</p><p>"Readers have to be "very" loyal to take this step and affiliate with a <br>&gt; particular blog."</p>Scott RaferTue, 04 Jul 2006 06:55:26 -0000http://venturebeat.com/2006/07/03/mybloglog-the-social-networking-company-wants-to-profile-your-traffic/#comment-14666539<p>Great question Dasher. And thanks for responding, Scott. I've updated original post, which sorely needed to address this question.</p>Matt MarshallTue, 04 Jul 2006 05:45:23 -0000http://venturebeat.com/2006/07/03/mybloglog-the-social-networking-company-wants-to-profile-your-traffic/#comment-14666538<p>Hi Dasher,</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Scott</p>Scott RaferTue, 04 Jul 2006 04:20:03 -0000http://venturebeat.com/2006/07/03/mybloglog-the-social-networking-company-wants-to-profile-your-traffic/#comment-14666537<p>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?</p>DasherMon, 03 Jul 2006 18:36:55 -0000