http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/06/07/mybloglof-communities/ Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me Thu, 17 May 2012 21:05:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/06/07/mybloglof-communities/comment-page-1/#comment-13053 Venture Chronicles Mon, 24 Jul 2006 22:37:36 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/06/07/mybloglof-communities/#comment-13053 [...] Analytics is clearly a big topic in the blogosphere and Newsgator is evidently aware of the value of their aggregate feed and click through statistics. My immediate reaction was to think about the value of integrating their analytics data with services we are already using, Buzzmetrics and Umbria. The ability to offer “discovery and refinement” services is also an outgrowth of their analytics data, for example, being able to recommend blogs based on subscription and reading patterns. The subject of authority also came up in the discussion because current services that attempt to determine authority use trackback links as a proxy for attention. This is not invalid but it’s just one methodology, whereas Newsgator could in fact offer not just keywords but also actual clickthroughs, which reminded my of what MyBlogLog is doing with communities. [...] [...] Analytics is clearly a big topic in the blogosphere and Newsgator is evidently aware of the value of their aggregate feed and click through statistics. My immediate reaction was to think about the value of integrating their analytics data with services we are already using, Buzzmetrics and Umbria. The ability to offer “discovery and refinement” services is also an outgrowth of their analytics data, for example, being able to recommend blogs based on subscription and reading patterns. The subject of authority also came up in the discussion because current services that attempt to determine authority use trackback links as a proxy for attention. This is not invalid but it’s just one methodology, whereas Newsgator could in fact offer not just keywords but also actual clickthroughs, which reminded my of what MyBlogLog is doing with communities. [...]

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