Hacking MyBlogLog
| Monday, January 21st, 2008 | --jr |
Right, so as i mentioned last week, MyBlogLog is offering a closed beta of their API.
Why should you care? Well, remember, MyBlogLog offers a lot of functions in addition to just "Who's reading my blog?" In fact, ReadWriteWeb has a very good write-up about what all is being offered:
MyBlogLog is an incredible model of how to leverage human psychology in order to access peoples' data. The prospect of seeing the faces of people who visit your blog is so seductive that thousands if not millions of people have offered their faces and information to MyBlogLog in order to participate. Compare this to the staid pitch of OpenID, where the "utility" of single sign-on has been the most clearly articulated value proposition so far.
Add in the fact that MyBlogLog lets folks specify other network affiliations and allows folks to control how their data is used and you start to really see how this can be powerful. Kent even provides a very good example of what you can do with it, by grabbing publicly declared interfaces (in this case twitter).
So, how does one go about getting into this closed beta? Well, the easiest way is to ask. Just go to http://developer.yahoo.com/mybloglog/ and ask.
Simple, huh?