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Sorry FriendFeed, But I Agree With Robert Scoble
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Sorry FriendFeed, But I Agree With Robert Scoble
1) Makes them more attractive to blogs
2) Opens the door for other third-party services to use them as well
Yes, in a sense they are all competitors, but they all have their individual strengths. This will give them a chance to really dive into their niches by investing in the industry as a whole.
This is one of the goals of our FriendFeed integration. We're striving to give you the tools to aggregate your content in cooperation with other 3rd party services so that you're comments are available regardless of which service you use to post it. Whether this is something that we do in-house or something that we work on with our good friends over at Gnip (http://gnnipcentral.com) is still getting hashed out. BTW - check out GNIP. They just launched last week and we're extremely excited about our partnership with our good buddies down the street from us. Keep an eye on them...they're going to change everything.
It should be pretty exciting to see the future of content aggregation. We'll get there!
Cheers,
Michael Koenig
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Just to correct your URL: http://www.gnipcentral.com/
Keep up the great work :)
Sorry about taking over your comment section here. I'm more than willing to keep the conversation going here (especially to keep anyone interested in the loop, since it pertains to comment portability), but I'd completely understand if you'd prefer to move this conversation from your blog to email in order to spare your readers. Please let me know and feel free to email.
Hope they will.
Good Call.
Any plans to add any kind of commenting to Toluu or would that overcomplicate the service?
In any case, I am a proponent of the idea of unified commenting.
This way, any post I leave anywhere will be also posted back to my own, personal, "comment tracking system", or even integrated in my blog, as posts. Open, simple, portable and most parts are already implemented in various programming languages.
I lack of communication between the different services is keeping me from fully embracing them at this time. I'm trying out Disqus on my personal blog, but have not moved all my blogs and podcasts to it yet.
We'll see.
I think there's a lot of benefit to using Disqus and other commenting systems. Just be sure to look at the pros and cons. Personally, I've found it increases the amount of discussion I get on my posts.