MyBlogLog Communities, which launched its test site at the end of May, is a social network for blog readers. You know a lot about your favorite bloggers, but how much do you know about their readers, or the readers of your own blog?
MyBlogLog Communities lets you create a profile, upload a picture and add your usernames from Flickr, MySpace, LinkedIn, Google Calendar and a host of other services - plus your various IM handles. You can then add your own blog and upload a screenshot (ideally, it should grab the screenshot automatically, but I'm not complaining). Next: join blog communities, add friends and leave comments. The service also accommodates multiple levels of friendship - you can have a two-way friendship or a one-way Admirer/Admiree relationship (I like you, but you don't like me!). For those who are interested, the Mashable page is here.
Until now, blog comments have been the most common way for readers to express an interest in a certain blog. As a result, services like CoComment are able to connect you with users who read the same authors. But MyBlogLog Communities serves a different purpose - it helps you to find the readers who don't comment, don't have their own blogs or the ability to link to you, but still want to appear on your radar. At least that's the theory. On the other hand, this could become yet another undifferentiated social site with low utility - it's hard to tell. Pete's final thought: isn't the blogosphere already a distributed social network?
