Alright all you blog owners, it’s time to claim your blog. We’ve added a verification process that allows blog owners to be listed as the author on the blog’s detail page. All you have to do is click on the link provided in the author field.
Once you have been verified as the author, you will be allowed to request changes to the:
Title
Description
Tags
Category
RSS URL
We’ve also spruced up the related blogs section that offers you a thumbnail preview of other blogs in the same category.
We are working on more changes that will make discovering blogs easier.
Ken and I just came back from Austin after spending 3 days at the SXSW conference. It was our first time and we both learned a lot and met some really cool people from the blogosphere. Here are some key learnings I’ll take with me next time I go to SXSW:
- Do not wear uncomfortable shoes (especially heels) because there was a lot of walking and standing in line involved. I’m serious, you need to wait in line to get into every party at SXSW
- Check twitter frequently to learn where all the cool people and great parties are
- Don’t be shy, just walk up and talk to anyone, you’re bound to learn something new
Keeping #3 in mind and with a “little” encouragement from my partner, I went up to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and introduced myself. I told him we recently launched our site and our plan to release our Facebook app. He was very friendly and wished me luck with Blogged.
We also got some very valuable feedback from bloggers on how to make Blogged even better as a blog discovery tool for users. We’ll be working on those improvements and features on our roadmap for the next few weeks. Stay tuned for more.
Gladys
It has been quite a fun ride this past week. After announcing the launch of Blogged, we’ve received numerous compliments, well-wishes, complaints, improvement suggestions and criticisms. One blogger even titled their review of our site “Blogged.com — 1994 Called, And They Want Their Blog Directory Back” which I found quite amusing and witty. Gotta love the creative blogger minds!
But in all seriousness, from the tremendous amount of useful feedback we’ve received, we have added several new features which we’ve recently incorporated. We’ve also received many requests for editorial review and to accommodate this, we’ve added a “request review” link located just under the rating section of a blog’s profile. In the coming weeks, you will see several new enhancements that will give blog owners more control over how their blogs are displayed.
I’m really excited about all the great feedback so far and I hope you’ll keep sending us your thoughts.
Kenneth (Co-founder)
P.S. Gladys (Co-founder) and I will be at SXSW this weekend. We are not going to have a booth or anything but if you see one of us with a “Blogged.com” name tag or T-shirt, please feel free to come by and say hello. We’ll be happy to give you one of our nifty Blogged.com shirts. The shirts are really nice quality too — I wouldn’t want to put our logo on anything less!
