blogcatalog

A battle seems to be hotting up between MyBlogLog and BlogCatalog for the superest mega-widget of all time.

I mentioned the BlogCatalog offering earlier, which you can see in my sidebar, which tells you what I’ve been up to across various networks. Now, MyBlogLog are offering what I’d describe as a giant version of the same, designed to be embedded in a page. You can see mine in my About page. Underneath the static blurb, you’ll notice a dynamic offering letting you know what I’ve been doing recently (on the Net, that is!).

Which one’s best? They serve different purposes, really, even though they offer similar information. The BlogCatalog widget sits nicely in a sidebar, and the MyBlogLog version sits very well in a page. The MyBlogLog version is almost an embeddable version of FriendFeed for your own site, which is pretty neat.

I like them both. Trouble is, the number of widgets is now creeping back up on my blog!

I’ve got a strange relationship with FriendFeed. I signed up a while ago (you can see my “feed” here) and every time I go back to it, I think to myself “this is really neat”, then I don’t visit it for a few weeks until I see it mentioned again on the Net somewhere.

It strikes me that the new BlogCatalog My Communities widget (see mine in the sidebar) is doing a very similar thing. So, which one is best?

The BlogCatalog offering means someone actually has to visit my site, whereas FriendFeed is more likely to be “found” by someone, due to its popularity. Mind you, I like the look of the BlogCatalog widget. It’s one of the few widgets I’ve left here on Psionmark for more than about 5 minutes. Having said that, it can look like the best widget in the world, but if nobody is seeing it…

I’ve just realised I’m actually going nowhere in particular with this post, other than to say I like both FriendFeed and the BlogCatalog My Communities widget.

So, there you go, I’ve said it