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Thanks for the feedback
"Include all the URLs you use when you write comments"
Umm, what? Each person needs to manually enter every URL of every blog they comment on? I guess I was expecting backtrack would build up a database of known blogs, so as more people sign up you are more likely to find the blogs they comment on are already known by the backtrack system.
If each backtrack user really is going to enter all of their blog URLs, backtrack might want to handle OMPL import and then try to heuristically figure out where the comment page for each blog is.
I also don't understand how I would enter URLs if I had used a different alias on different blogs. It looks like it will search all blogs for the user name string I signed up to backtrack as.
Just click claim comments and you can add them to your profile:
http://www.backtype.com/url/codingrelic.geekhol...
You can also search for yourself, and click claim comments from the page with all your comments already on BackType.
Mike - BackType
Besides, it could eliminate the problem for multi-author blogs where all the comments left from various Techcrunch authors, for example, are aggregated into a single account showing Michael as having 4,300 comments. Of course such aggregate accounts are possible but I'm sure some bloggers would prefer to have them separated.
First off thank you for taking the time to write such a comprehensive review. Chris wrote a comment on your blog, which I believe is still pending moderation that tries to address some of your comments.
If I understand your question correctly the reason we can't use your email address is because it is not published. The URL is the simplest identifier that is published when you write comments across the web. Unless you mean using your openid/email to pull in any URLs you use -- if so that is something we are looking into.
We know there are a few things for us to iron out -- and many other things for us to tackle. But we felt the service was providing value so it was time to launch and see what others thought.
We really appreciate all the feedback. Please let me know if you have any more questions.
I must say that I really admire how you and your team are handling the comments on multiple reviews BackType has seen today, great approach. And yes, Chris' comment was sent to moderation for containing links, I've approved it already and will be sure to reply to him as well.
I understand that URLs are simple identifiers almost always available in comments while emails are visible to blog owners only. But services such as Gravatar (as far as I know) already use either emails or URLs to attach an avatar to a comment. So I was wondering if some similar arrangement was possible with BackType (probably for registered users only if it could raise privacy concerns.
I will be sure to keep an eye on the way BackType will develop (as it looks like one of the startups that I not only review but will be using as well). I'm sure it has a great potential and will be looking forward to you addressing some of the issues discussed today on numerous blogs.
We'll be looking into a lot of the things that have come up already today. Thanks again for all the comments :)
Still thinking about the authenticity problem myself... maybe I'll start PGP signing my comments ;)
Great site idea, good luck!
But I actually think this would be a useful bit of information - particularly for members of my readership who are, for the most part, musicians and music business entrepreneurs. Kevin Kelly's concept of the 1000 superfans has really captured the imagination of some of my readers and having a tool that would figure out who the REALLY interested people were (short of a survey) would be a good start toward developing a strategy to specifically target and superserve that small slice of the market.
Entering all of your profiles on the social networks (Facebook, Friendfeed, etc) and then getting a handle on who follows you everywhere would be a good indicator of a True Fan (or a stalker).
If anyone wanted to make a BackTwitFeedr, I'd not only use it - but I'd probably recommend to the New Music Strategies crowd that they give it a try too. Any takers?