Blog Friends' tendrils spreading

I thought I'd give my readers a quick Blog Friends progress report. : )

As of today, around 1,400 bloggers have signed up to Blog Friends (the official facebook number of over 1,500 is slightly out, according to our logs). Amongst them are many well known bloggers such as Robert Scoble, J.D.Lasica and Ethan Zuckerman. We are growing at about 100 users per day, and churn (people deleting the application) is at a low 8.9%.

Technology, social media and marketing are popular subjects amongst our users' blogs, as might be expected. However, what has been really amazing is tracking in our user logs the incredible diversity of subject and geolocation: we have blogs on ethical palaentology, knitting in New York, Music from the 80s, blogs from India, Africa and China, and many, many more topics. Truly, bloggers are a rampantly eclectic lot!

Benjie, our developer, is on his hols for the next week or so, but we have a load of new features that we are itching to roll out on his return!

Watch this space—or rather, watch your Blog Friends profile box on facebook. ; )