News and notes from around the water cooler and beyond

MyBlogLog Enhanced
MyBlogLog, the social networking site and widgetizer that allows you to see who’s reading your site or blog and promote your own, has upgraded its messaging function. You can now send a message to your whole community with one quick step, instead of having to send messages one by one.

Those members of your community who have opted to receive email when they receive a message will be notified via email. Those who don’t will still see your message when they log into their accounts.

Try to use this feature sparingly, and only when you really have something important to say. Otherwise, your community may abandon you and you wouldn’t want that! For more information, visit the MyBlogLog Blog (say that five times fast).

Where’s the Winner?
A while back we mentioned that Yahoo! had been nominated in several categories in CNET’s Webware 100 2007 contest. You voted and Yahoo! Maps won best-in-show in its category. Visit the Yahoo! Maps blog for more.

Digg Those Pipes
Over at the Yahoo! Developer Network blog, our old pal Jeremy Zawodny calls our attention to a pretty impressive use of Yahoo! Pipes, the aggregator and manipulator that lets even semi-techies mash up their fave feeds for free. This Pipe lets you analyze Digg submissions and votes. For more, see Jeremy’s post.

Uncommonly Creative Carousing
Creative Commons, the Yahoo! content partner that allows you to search, use and distribute “open source” content, is throwing a rock-and-roll shindig up in Portland later this month during the Open Source Convention (OSCON). Both digerati and literati will be representing. Here are the deets:

When: July 25, 2007, 6:30 p.m.
Where: The Wonder Ballroom
Why: Because open source likes to open up

—Michael Mattis, Blogeratus