Why am I even surprised? I got an email from Yahoo! saying that they were discontinuing MyBlogLog. After all the other services they have killed or merged, I am not going to be surprised if Yahoo! Pulse will eventually meet a similar fate. You would think after a company such as Yahoo! having brought us Yahoo! Chat, Yahoo! Clubs (now Yahoo! Groups- from their merging Yahoo! Clubs with eGroups), Yahoo! Geocities, and more, they would have found the perfect tool to try to stay up above Twitter and Facebook.
BUT – that is not the case.
Here is the letter I received. I am sure many of you have also received it:
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.
After May 24, 2011 your credit card will no longer be charged for premium services on MyBlogLog. We will refund you the unused portion of your subscription, if any. The refund will appear as a credit via the billing method we have on file for you. To make sure that your billing information is correct and up to date, visit https://billing.yahoo.com.
Questions?
If you have questions about these changes, please visit the Yahoo! MyBlogLog help pages.We thank you for being a customer on Yahoo! MyBlogLog.
Sincerely,
The Yahoo! My BlogLog Team
On the MyBlogLog Site, they have an important notice up:
MyBlogLog will no longer be in service from 24 May 2011. We recommend Yahoo! Pulse as a service for you to see all your social updates from your favorite networks in one place.
With Yahoo! Pulse, you can create your own identity on Yahoo! and you can easily connect and engage with the people, content, and applications that matter to you, wherever you are on Yahoo!.
If you have questions about these changes, please visit the Yahoo! MyBlogLog help pages.Thank you for being part of MyBlogLog.
While I admit I was not a hardcore user or even much of a MyBlogLog user, for those who still love Yahoo! services, it had its uses. I could plug in my RSS feed from my blog, and in case anyone wanted to send questions through the MyBlogLog service, the door was open. I also could list my other social network handles so others could connect with me at their favorite places to hang out online.
My issue is that Yahoo! never takes the time to actually keep a good thing going. It is parted out and put into another failure. And then the cycle continues.
Did you use MyBlogLog? What are your thoughts on this? What could they have done to make MyBlogLog better, rather than discontinue the service?
I used it only because when I set up my blogs, the theme I used had the widget already built in. Other than that I didn't use it, but now I suppose I will have to adjust my theme to edit out the Recent Readers portion or code it to something else – argh!
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Oh you mean they finally did it? They've been saying for a couple of years that they were going to shut it down, then they revamped it instead. It doesn't surprise me they are getting rid of it though, that seems to be Yahoo!'s M.O., they buy it out and close it down.
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I use this service from Yahoo in the past but i'm not surprised that they give it away. Many of the services offered by Yahoo do not bring anything new or interesting to users.
I didn't try Mybloglog service yet so i will not put any comments on it. Thanks for update.
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