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MyBlogLog Background and Feature Requests (www.gstories.com)

MyBlogLog is certainly the talk of the blogosphere these days. Readers know that I’m a big fan of the service - even though I can’t wait for their move to faster servers - and the company continues to add new users every day.
Lee Odden had a chance to ask Scott Rafer a few questions. Not too much info - Scott’s a busy man - but we do learn that they have over 50k users and growing by 2% each day.
Meanwhile, Shoemoney, has a list of ten features he’d like to see added to the service

Yahoo Acquires MyBlogLog (www.gstories.com)

It appears Marketing Pilgrim and Yahoo are on the same page…we both think MyBlogLog is a pretty cool company!
The social network for bloggers and blog readers has seen great growth in the past few months with lots of blogs installing their tracking code and building their MyBlogLog community. Once again proving it’s in touch with social media, Yahoo has snapped up the company for a reported $10-12 million.
Judging by the official MyBlogLog blog, the guys appear to be excited about the acquisition and explain what backing from Yahoo will mean to them.
Yahoo! is going to put loads of resources into MyBlogLog and help us roll out a ton of new features.  Plus, we’re moving to their infrastructure, which should help with those occasional slowdowns.

And Mashable explains Yahoo’s strategy for keeping MyBlogLog a separate entity while still mashing it up with other Yahoo web properties.
Bradley Horowitz, VP of product strategy at Yahoo, said that MyBlogLog would remain a separate entity (much like their other social acquisitions) , but you’ll be able to register with your Yahoo ID