9rules goes social with my.9rules
Well, that’s not exactly a fair title. 9rules has been a member based blog aggregator since it’s inception, which is social in nature. However, the only way to contribute to the conversation on the 9rules site was as a member accepted via a tough, annual screening. The blog aggregator made a name for itself as a source of high quality blogs. With their previous version, 9rules introduced Notes, which allowed anyone to sign up and participate in a forum. Participants had basic profiles that were a couple of data points and a link to their site.
Paul, Mike, and Tyme have just rolled out their latest version code named “Ali“. It is a truly significant upgrade in the community department with the introduction of messaging and social aggregation via feeds. I am personally a big fan of 9rules and have been since version 1. This most recent development will lead to an explosion in participation because the community is comprised of quality members and open to all participants. Plus, it’s an aesthetically pleasing and highly functional convergence of multiple social networks. They are also pumping feeds out to other sites via a widget, which you can see on Mike’s blog (although I can’t see where I can grab code yet).
In my opinion this site will steal the thunder from MyBlogLog and many will try to replicate its features. I am signing up a number of my clients because I think 9rules truly understands the dynamic of online communities as well as modern information architecture and design. They are a hot property to watch and they will be purchased, so join now because the community is on a long upswing.
Justin, thanks so much for the review and the overly kind words, it’s great to have someone like yourself participate in the 9rules community and evangelize what we work so hard on. We’ve got so much more planned for my.9rules and if things go well we’ll be debuting updated features and functionality for it in the next few weeks. And oh yeah, that widget thing, that may or may not be coming very soon as well ;)
From Mike Rundle on February 13th, 2007 at 4:00 am
I submitted myself for the last round but was clearly denied.
From cristinamarie on February 13th, 2007 at 8:33 am
Mike, if that widget comes out in the next couple of weeks I may or may not have to replace my “other” widget. ;)
Avuee, I too did not get the nod for membership this round. But, I’m going to keep at it and will be rolling a custom design soon (I think it makes people take a blogger more seriously).
From Justin on February 13th, 2007 at 10:52 am
Justin, thank you so much for the kind words.
Believe it or not I’m still Round 5ing. Seriously, I am….
From Tyme White on February 13th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
And I also think it’s humerous that one of your recent visitors showing up in your MBL widget is none other than the head of MBL himself, Mr. Rafer :)
From Mike Rundle on February 13th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
Tyme, so you’re saying there’s still a chance…;)
Mike, I’m glad you pointed that out because I didn’t realize he was the head of MBL (oops). With visits from Mr. Rafer and all these 9rules leaders I’m feelin’ like a real blogger. Hehe.
From Justin on February 14th, 2007 at 2:57 am
Nor did I get membership nod, but had I really read through it all I would have known not to submit because clearly they are not looking for blogs like mine and I won’t submit again because my blog really isn’t going to change.
That having been said
My bloglog is rather a mess if you ask me but I enjoy looking at that widget for the present and it isn’t as stalkerish as My Space. I have people signed up for “my community” for no reason I can ascertain, some sure I know or might have something in common with but a law firm and makreting blogs clearly don’t belong in the same boat as I so it really makes no sense and I can see it getting worse.
Nine rules seems very tech leaning to me but the notes are kind of cool for me right now, sadly they interfere with my studies as I have been clicking on them every five minutes.
From cooper on February 16th, 2007 at 12:47 am
I still have the MyBlogLog widget on my site because I’m all about having as much presence as possible.
Cooper, what do you mean your sites isn’t right?
From Justin on February 16th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
I can see that as your blog is business oriented, and there-in lies the difference.
Oh, I just think they are looking for blogs with more of a focus nothing specific really but I’m not big on rules and there seem to be quite a lot of those. lol
From cooper on February 17th, 2007 at 1:22 am