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. ; )

Bloggers' likes—and dislikes!

Three days into the Blog Friends public beta, and a picture of the most common interests and dislikes of bloggers (as told us by our users) is beginning to emerge. Interesting for me, as a musician, to see music at the top of the likes list. Some of the dislikes are quite funny: I have highlighted my favourites for your chortling convenience.

Top interests

1. music (58)
2. technology (55)
3. social media (47)
4. politics (44)
5. web 2.0 (38)
6. blogging (27)
7. media (25)
8. internet (21)
9. photography (20)
10. business (18)
11. marketing (18)
12. social networking (17)
13. science (16)
14. travel (16)
15. art (15)
16. gadgets (15)
17. books (14)
18. mobile (14)
19. movies (13)
20. startups (13)
21. apple (13)
22. social software (12)
23. facebook (12)
24. podcasting (12)
25. education (12)
26. new media (11)
27. philosophy (11)
28. web2.0 (10)
29. blogs (10)
30. culture (10)
31. food (10)
32. pr (9)
33. economics (9)
34. enterprise 2.0 (9)
35. innovation (9)
36. london (8)
37. collaboration (8)
38. entrepreneurship (8)
39. film (8)
40. knowledge management (8)
41. tv (8)
42. news (8)
43. software (8)
44. iphone (8)
45. linux (8)
46. computers (7)
47. family (7)
48. microsoft (7)
49. mac (7)
50. literature (7)
51. identity (7)
52. tech (7)
53. social networks (7)
54. web (7)
55. creativity (7)
56. theatre (6)
57. advertising (6)
58. wine (6)
59. reading (6)
60. public relations (6)
61. community (6)
62. psychology (6)
63. networking (5)
64. cat (5)
65. television (5)
66. history (5)
67. football (5)
68. rss (5)
69. environment (5)
70. journalism (5)
71. finance (5)
72. cooking (5)
73. open source (5)
74. google (5)
75. search engine optimization (4)
76. venture capital (4)
77. twitter (4)
78. communication (4)
79. privacy (4)
80. atheism (4)
81. writing (4)
82. programming (4)
83. stuff (4)
84. productivity (4)
85. gaming (4)
86. life (4)
87. cats (4)
88. design (4)
89. dogs (4)
90. video (4)
91. friends (4)
92. blog (4)
93. trends (4)
94. beer (4)
95. learning (4)
96. social (4)
97. future (4)
98. wiki (3)
99. poetry (3)
100. japan (3)

Top dislikes

1. sports (6)
2. fashion (5)
3. gossip (4)
4. iphone (4)
5. politics (4)
6. dogs (3)
7. gadgets (3)
8. sport (3)
9. celebrity (3)
10. children (2)
11. pop (2)
12. football (2)
13. music (2)
14. kids (2)
15. microsoft (2)
16. sex (2)
17. cats (2)
18. games (2)
19. personal (2)
20. food (2)
21. tennis (1)
22. benjie (1) [our erstwhile developer]
23. us (1)
24. pretentiousness (1)
25. life hacks (1)
26. drugs (1)
27. fish (1)
28. advertising (1)
29. romance (1)
30. creationism (1)
31. parasites (1)
32. scarf (1) [?!]
33. criminal law (1)
34. business (1)
35. hype (1)
36. hot topic (1)
37. jof (1) [our wonderful project manager—hum, tit for tat?]
38. sms (1)
39. poetry (1)
40. fried worms (1)
41. monte cristo (1)
42. internet (1)
43. sap (1)
44. parliament (1)
45. bad (1)
46. nothing (1)
47. mac (1)
48. rants (1)
49. bioconservativism (1)
50. junky stuff (1)
51. h0|2r13u|_ (|-|4&i`c7£rs (1)
52. mpaa (1)
53. patent trolls (1)
54. arrogant. (1)
55. loads (1)
56. us politics (1)
57. hip-hop (1)
58. pineapple (1)
59. apache (1)
60. digital marketing (1)
61. silliness (1)
62. negative people (1)
63. h0|2r13u|_ (|-|4&i`c7£rs (1)
64. jem (1)
65. united states (1)
66. pinheads (1)
67. judgmental people (1) [these last two presumably by different users!]
68. investment. (1)
69. mats (1)
70. drinking (1)
71. general stupidity (1)
72. dogmatism (1)
73. fish&chips (1)
74. windows (1)
75. heights (1)
76. celebrities (1)
77. high maintenance people (1)
78. routers (1)
79. facebook (1) [a bit worrying for us, that one]
80. code (1)
81. dog shit (1)
82. brussels (1)
83. web 2.0 (1)
84. personal finance (1)
85. fascism (1)
86. bugs (1)
87. blogging (1)
88. apple (1)
89. lifestyle issues (1)
90. religious fundamentalism and ignorance of any kind (1)
91. colleges (1)
92. other things (1)
93. avocado (1)
94. journal (1)
95. when people do not respond or thank each other for (1)
96. aging (1)
97. web (1)
98. wifi (1)
99. annoying people (1)
100. environmentalism (1)

Now we are 100

I just saw on my Feedburner stats page that weaverluke blog now has 100 readers. Yay, next stop the "A list"! ; )