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Yahoo is Shutting Down MyBlogLog

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>Yahoo sent out an email informing MyBlogLog customers that the service will be discontinued on May 24, 2011.

Dear MyBlogLog Customer,

You have been identified as a customer of Yahoo! MyBlogLog. We will officially discontinue Yahoo! MyBlogLog effective May 24, 2011. Your agreement with Yahoo!, to the extent that it applies to the Yahoo! MyBlogLog, will terminate on May 24, 2011.

Unfortunately this was predictable. There was a time when bloggers were very active on MyBlogLog and everyday a new person would join my community. It’s been a while since I’ve seen a new face show up on the MyBlogLog widget that I still have on the bottom of my blog templates. The feature that I am going to miss the most is the statistics. Event hough I am a bit Statcounter fan and user I still find that MyBlogLog has better way of showing click statistics. Though it does not seem to pick up all the clicks especially clicks on ads but showing the title of a link instead of the url makes all the difference for me as a user.

RIP MyBlogLog you did well.

>Is Yahoo migrating all the 360 blogs to WordPress?

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>Yes, it’s been announced a long time ago and it should be effective soon, Yahoo! 360 is transitioning to a more integrated Yahoo! experience. This means that Yahoo! 360 will never get out of Beta.


If you followed the link you’ve noticed the high number of comments on the latest posts of the official Yahoo! 360 blog. The Yahoo! 360 team probably has one of the most popular Yahoo! blogs out there.

Back to my question, is Yahoo! migrating all the 360 blogs to WordPress? After all, many Yahoo! blogs are WordPress blogs, their music blog, their video blog, their flickr blog, their corporate blog- at least it used to be, now I’m not so sure -… Maybe Yahoo! has a special partnership with the WordPress people? Or maybe they just hate their own blogging platform.

If Yahoo! can come up with a blogging platform that is easy to use, allows full control of content and layout, allows third party code integration and that is also integrated in the rest of the Yahoo machine they might have a winner. The Yahoo! 360 seemed to be integrated with only Yahoo! messenger. At some point I thought they would upgrade all the old profiles to 360 but they didn’t. Then came the Mybloglog acquisition and now it seems that they have come up with a new profile system that integrates all the information you enter on any Yahoo! site. My wish for them is that they don’t loose any bloggers in the transition process.