Hi5 (yet another social network) is launching their OpenSocial based platform today (well really tomorrow and over the next few weeks) and have done a really great job communicating with developers how stuff is going to work. For example, letting developers know what will and won’t be working in their release plan. Facebook and MySpace could learn a good lesson here in communication. Stop being vague with your plans and let your developers and advocates know what’s up. Facebook has made some great strides with their notifications around larger platform changes, but the small stuff is still an open question.

The blog has been picked up by spammers. We are now receiving daily spam comments. This would be inconsequential, however, until only a few days ago I had a site map that did not include the blog entries thus preventing it from being indexed by Google. I removed that map around the 19th and so Google has since indexed the blog pages. I believe spammers are using Google (and possibly other search engines) to locate sites running WordPress and other blogging software and adding them to their bots in hopes the blogs are unmoderated. I know nothing earth shattering here, but curious that until I was indexed by Google’s search engine - not a single spam comment. I noticed a similar effect on my personal blog when I removed the registration requirement (still moderated) for posts.