http://andybeard.disqus.com/Internet Marketing, Lead Acquisition, Online Business Strategy and Social Media with Original Opinion and Loads of AttitudeenMon, 08 Jan 2007 19:12:37 -0000http://andybeard.eu/224/mybloglog-plutoed.html#comment-12522401<p>Oked to use a female avatar sure. It is fairly common, and in a similar way I use a simple logo as faces just don't stand out.</p><p>You don't seem to get the point of the post though. Your "challenge" is totally invalid because of the tactics you used and didn't care to mention in your blog post.</p><p>Your tactics if employed by others would totally devalue MyBlogLog as a real social network, similar to LinkedIn but a little more casual.<br>If it becomes standard practice to invite 25% of the members automatically, "carefully selected" my ass, the whole idea of contacts falls apart.</p><p>If there was some special arrangement allowing you to spam 8000+ people with contact requests, I am sure Eric would have defended you in the previous comment.</p><p>Btw great censorship on your blog comments. I gather you don't want your readers to know how you are really gaining all the new community members.</p>AndyBeardMon, 08 Jan 2007 19:12:37 -0000http://andybeard.eu/224/mybloglog-plutoed.html#comment-10987602<p>Oked to use a female avatar sure. It is fairly common, and in a similar way I use a simple logo as faces just don't stand out.</p><p>You don't seem to get the point of the post though. Your "challenge" is totally invalid because of the tactics you used and didn't care to mention in your blog post.</p><p>Your tactics if employed by others would totally devalue MyBlogLog as a real social network, similar to LinkedIn but a little more casual.<br>If it becomes standard practice to invite 25% of the members automatically, "carefully selected" my ass, the whole idea of contacts falls apart.</p><p>If there was some special arrangement allowing you to spam 8000+ people with contact requests, I am sure Eric would have defended you in the previous comment.</p><p>Btw great censorship on your blog comments. I gather you don't want your readers to know how you are really gaining all the new community members.</p>AndyBeardMon, 08 Jan 2007 19:12:37 -0000http://andybeard.eu/224/mybloglog-plutoed.html#comment-12522400<p>Dude I was working with the developers and also was ok'd by mybloglog to use the female avatar.</p>Jeremy SchoemakerMon, 08 Jan 2007 18:54:00 -0000http://andybeard.eu/224/mybloglog-plutoed.html#comment-10987601<p>Dude I was working with the developers and also was ok'd by mybloglog to use the female avatar.</p>Jeremy SchoemakerMon, 08 Jan 2007 18:54:00 -0000http://andybeard.eu/224/mybloglog-plutoed.html#comment-10987600<p>Andy -- we're going to continue working hard this year to keep the signal to noise ratio as high as possible. Over the holidays last month we released a feature that lets you only see messages from your own contacts and I think this will help. As always, suggestions on how we can do better are encouraged.</p>Eric MarcoullierMon, 08 Jan 2007 13:44:54 -0000http://andybeard.eu/224/mybloglog-plutoed.html#comment-12522399<p>Andy -- we're going to continue working hard this year to keep the signal to noise ratio as high as possible. Over the holidays last month we released a feature that lets you only see messages from your own contacts and I think this will help. As always, suggestions on how we can do better are encouraged.</p>Eric MarcoullierMon, 08 Jan 2007 13:44:54 -0000