Posts Tagged with ‘comments’

We have already seen way too many startups launched in the blog commenting field with some of them gaining traction and others abandoned days after launch. The latest product that drew attention from the blogosphere was BackType, a nice tool to aggregate blog comments from the entire blogosphere into feeds and allow anyone to track all comments authored by a particular person or containing a certain term you are interested in.
But whenever we talk about a new commenting startup, there [...]

We have already seen enough competition (I think) between services intended to help blog readers easier authenticate themselves to leave a comment on a blog and have all the comments from blogs supporting this or that service aggregated into one account: Disqus, SezWho, JS-Kit, IntenseDebate all work in the same field with slight variations of approaches. But unfortunately as blog owners choose different services to install on their blogs, readers end up creating accounts with each of the services.
Today we [...]

Once just a listing of blogs, BlogCatalog has slowly grown over the past year into more of a social network for bloggers with more than 100,000 members. Today, users of the BlogCatalog service will find the ability to easily download a customized version of the SezWho comment tracking plug-in for their blogs.
After signing up for SezWho, BlogCatalog members are provided a link via email where they can download and install the special plugin. Through the collaboration of the two [...]

JS-Kit , which I tested and reviewed back in October, has just released another fantastic tool for Web publishers called Navigator . As far as I know this is the first lightweight service of its kind designed to increase traffic and retention while simplifying content management for publishers.
Navigator essentially distills opinion and user behavior into a set of flexible views. The net effect of this is to allow visitors to access content based on their personal preferences. The [...]

Disqus is a new comment/discussion startup debuting today, and quite frankly it is very promising. This logical - enhanced online discussion tool allows blogs, websites and visitors to benefit from comments and relevant discussions in several ways. Disqus allows site owners to create custom discussion forums interfaced with a comments aspect for blogs and websites. The service can be utilized as a stand alone forum or as a companion to the comments tools. Disqus founder Daniel Ha told me that [...]

Today I had an opportunity to talk with the developers at JS-Kit about some of their latest cutting edge widgets. Widgets have become part of Web 2.0 popular culture, but rarely does one come along that we think of as more than just “cute” or at best useful. JS-Kit is developing mega-site widgets for all blogs and websites. The vision at JS-Kit is transform widgets into fully functioning, dynamic and interactive tools for everyone - not just sites with huge [...]

Phoja is a new social community that is focused around photographs.
At first glance, it seemed like a Flickr-Digg mashup with its ranking system, but then I realized the differences, and the true potential that Phoja has.
This Melbourne-based startup was established in mid-2007 with an aim to encourage social discussion and community recommendations based on photographs.
The way I see it, there are 2 primary ways in which Phoja can be beneficial for users. Not including, of course, the benefits from [...]