Posts Tagged with ‘disqus’

coComment Upgrades to Preserve Industry Leadership

Svetlana Gladkova

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 [...]

BackType – a New Model of Handling Blog Comments

Svetlana Gladkova

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 [...]

Function Before Features and Fame

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

In case you are living in a cave this weekend, I'll tell you the "big new" in Web 2.0: Seesmic managed the coup of getting Steve Spielberg, George Lucas, and a good portion of the cast of the upcoming Indiana Jones movie to set up channels and respond to questions posed by The Guardian's Jemima Kiss. The one person you'd expect to be crowing about it would be Seesmic friend/investor/cheerleader Mike Arrington, but he's pretty ticked off about the whole [...]

You Never Get a Second Chance at a First Impression

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

This post really should have a subtitle of “What should you be doing when it comes to customer service?” because it's one of the most crucial ways that a company can screw it up. Mistakes happen, and it's often overwhelming dealing with unhappy or unsatisfied customers. But meeting at least a bare minimum expectation can go a long way toward increasing a user base, and going the extra mile goes even farther.
I can think of several instances where companies have [...]

Disqus This!

Phil Butler

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 [...]