pijoo is a new blog community with an avatar widget
pijoo.com is a new blogging community that just opened in early November 2007.
Their slogan is “Where Bloggers meet”.
Pijoo is a very simple and easy to use community service. But don’t let that fool you. I can see that the service will be very popular as a way to promote your work and socialize with fellow bloggers.
The site
The layout is very easy to navigate. Tabs are used to easily flip through the various pages on the site. This allows you to view other bloggers profiles, send them messages and add them as friends. You can also create and join groups for discussion of specific topics.
All of this creates a very visible and open community, where bloggers can network and socialize.
Yahoo would do well to take a hard look at pijoo and consider some changes to the current incarnation of MyBlogLog.
Sponsors
Pijoo also has a paid membership ($30 lifetime) They refer to this as a “Sponsor” account. This paid account opens up a few more options to the members such as ability to add unlimited blogs to your account. Also priority listing on the ‘blogs’ page, detailed blog traffic stats, Ability to ‘broadcast’ messages to the network and more.
Widget
The pijoo blog widget is similar to the MyBlogLog widget. It displays the avatar of visitors from the pijoo network. It also links to each visitors pijoo profile page as well as allowing you to join their community. The widget also links to the pijoo.com main page.
This widget is an Iframe so it won’t work on Myspace. But it should work on most blogs and websites.
There are two color options, black and white. There are two sizes to choose from as well.
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certainly better than the other 2 mybloglog competitors..
I was certainly impressed with the simple, easy to navigate layout. Not so impressed with the lack of custom options for the widget. Especially the lack of Myspace integration.
I have to remember that pijoo is very new. Some things may change in the future…who knows?
Hi, thanks for the review. It’s true, we are very new and still in early testing phase, which we thought we’d open up to the public early to build a decent service.
Derek, thanks for your comments on the widget. We’ve had a lot of feedback on it and you’re not alone on the options thing. Phase 2 is coming soon with brand new widgets that will some of the great ideas and feedback from our early adopters.
All of this creates a very visible and open community, where bloggers can network and socialize.
I agree with this.Thanks.
@Pijoo:
Thanks for coming over here, we look forward to see how the service develops.
@George:
yeah, it represents a real option for those that don`t like Mybloglog or want to try out more than one community.