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Re: louisgray.com: Disqus' Partner Strategy: Is FriendFeed Integration Up Next?

Free Games — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:54:16 -0000

I think it would be awesome if Disqus can integrate with FriendFeed

Re: louisgray.com: Disqus' Partner Strategy: Is FriendFeed Integration Up Next?

Curtis — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:42:57 -0000

That would be a great thing if the two were combined. I guess it really doesn't matter where to comments are, as long as the discussion is ongoing.

Re: louisgray.com: Disqus' Partner Strategy: Is FriendFeed Integration Up Next?

fredwilson — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 06:31:02 -0000

Well I've disclosed my investment in disqus on every post I've ever done on
my blog.

I think people know where I am coming from

And plus, I tried a bunch of things and then went with disqus on my own blog
a long time before I invested in disqus (at least six months before I
invested in disqus)

So my opinion is also based on my experiences as a blogger

I really do think that disqus is the best starting point

fred

Re: louisgray.com: Disqus' Partner Strategy: Is FriendFeed Integration Up Next?

Khris — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 01:54:42 -0000

Hi Fred,

Given that you have invested money into Disqus your

"disqus is probably the best starting point"

comment is self serving.

In future, before you sell the community on your opinions please disclose
your financial relationships.

I am with JS-Kit. We provide Comment, Polls, & Ratings widgets for over
65,000+ blogs worldwide.

Be Well,

Khris, CEO
http://js-kit.com

Re: louisgray.com: Disqus' Partner Strategy: Is FriendFeed Integration Up Next?

Yohan Yukiya 사요한 謝雪矢 — Fri, 30 May 2008 06:14:08 -0000

That's the beginning. From their partnership comes the other players joining in. We are not excluding anyone here. ^_^

Re: louisgray.com: Disqus' Partner Strategy: Is FriendFeed Integration Up Next?

Matt Shaulis — Fri, 30 May 2008 01:46:53 -0000

What else could we ask for?

For starters, how about something that does not exclude other commenting utilities (like Intense Debate, Wordpress, Movable Type) and does not exclude other aggregation services where people comment (like Reddit, Shyftr, Social Median)?

What about something that will allow bloggers not using Disqus the ability to recieve comments pushed to them from social media community services?

Honestly, there's a lot more we could ask for... it's fun to get excited when 2 services are willing to work together to allow data to move more freely, but let's reserve our feelings of utmost salvation for an open solution that empowers multiple services and publishers to all enable two-way data flow among their applications and properties.

Re: louisgray.com: Disqus' Partner Strategy: Is FriendFeed Integration Up Next?

Matt Shaulis — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:39:27 -0000

Let's consider ideal solutions for a second (something nobody has, but with enough debate and willingness among service providers, something we can inch closer and closer to): Nothing should "force" a users comment to go back to the originating source. That option should be left unto the person making the comment... as should the original source's *option* to accept/display that comment if/when it does come back to them... It's not about magically shuffling all the data around, it's about creators choice. Blog authors *choice* to display the comments they want to display under their post; Comment authors *choice* to share their opinion with a group of friends, the world at large, the author of the content being commented on, or not, etc. Most people are abandoning the concept of free choice in this debate. Right now it's a carnival of: "how can we teach our machines to whisper to each other and parse the entire conversation between this service and that service..."

This notion that every comment belongs in a single place is beyond silly... it's dangerously ignorant of the volume of conversation that is possible in today's social media landscape. To take every comment left on one of Scoble's or Arrington's posts, form all over the web, and try to aggregate it into a single thread of comments under the original blog post will render that thread of comments completely valueless and impossible to follow. Talking about this like there is some mysterious "one size fits all" solution that will seat us all on a bullet train to Happy-Town is doing nothing to reach an optimal solution.

Perhaps what we need is a "Pact" that ALL services (from blog software providers, to aggregation services, to comment management services) can become a part of that aims to provide a solution "protocol" that considers all the *people's rights* and possible *options*... (Note I carefully chose the word "protocol" versus "platform"): MicroFormats or Meta Identification for "comment repository" (for fetching existing conversation) and "comment receptacle" (for contributing to the conversation) come to mind. It's not about services going behind a curtain and "teaming up" to wrangle anything... it's about open specifications that bar none from participation. I am more than willing to participate in open discussions with service providers, bloggers, community members, everyone... Open standard implementations are the answer here, and it's not gonna happen overnight, but as long as the ethos of "partnerships" and proprietary APIs are the modus operandi, then this thing will never get better.

Re: louisgray.com: Disqus' Partner Strategy: Is FriendFeed Integration Up Next?

sarahintampa — Thu, 29 May 2008 12:25:40 -0000

If Disqus integrates FriendFeed, I would be insanely happy! The WP plugin is great, but it still looks a little chopped up to have 2 sets of comments. To have it all streamlined would be amazing.

Re: louisgray.com: Disqus' Partner Strategy: Is FriendFeed Integration Up Next?

Joe Dawson — Thu, 29 May 2008 10:22:38 -0000

Same here, I have only recently just signed up but I rate it highly, integration with FriendFeed would be great. I am on Blogger and there is no FriendFeed plugin yet for the site like WordPress so something like this would be well received!

Re: louisgray.com: Disqus' Partner Strategy: Is FriendFeed Integration Up Next?

Yohan Yukiya 사요한 謝雪矢 — Thu, 29 May 2008 08:46:15 -0000

Yep. There's just too many content creators already. And majority are not even creators but aggregators or republishers. It's time to get a real communication going - discussions. Two-way. One blast, discuss all we want.

DISQUS is the perfect tool. They have "categories" within discussions which I haven't even touched yet.

Re: louisgray.com: Disqus' Partner Strategy: Is FriendFeed Integration Up Next?

(notnixon) — Thu, 29 May 2008 07:30:10 -0000

Comment is King. The creation of conversation across the web seems to now be coming together in a useable and consistent way.

Re: louisgray.com: Disqus' Partner Strategy: Is FriendFeed Integration Up Next?

Ian Betteridge — Thu, 29 May 2008 07:10:31 -0000

Daniel confirmed that they were working on two-way integration with FF in a reply to a comment I posted at the Disqus blog a month ago (see the bottom of http://blog.disqus.net/2008....

This means that that if I reply to a comment on FriendFeed for a blog which supports Disqus, it will show up back on the originating blog. And that will be a MAJOR step forward for me.

Re: louisgray.com: Disqus' Partner Strategy: Is FriendFeed Integration Up Next?

centernetworks — Thu, 29 May 2008 06:49:35 -0000

here i am replying on disqus instead of on louisgray.com or on my site (as you posted here).

the usage of your blog, and my blog are different.

Re: louisgray.com: Disqus' Partner Strategy: Is FriendFeed Integration Up Next?

centernetworks — Thu, 29 May 2008 06:47:59 -0000

hey louis- you got fred love - that's awesome - I hope to get that one day!

Re: louisgray.com: Disqus' Partner Strategy: Is FriendFeed Integration Up Next?

fredwilson — Thu, 29 May 2008 06:05:36 -0000

the answer is not just FF=>disqus, but FF=> disqus, intense debate, wordpress, typepad, blogger, etc, etc

but disqus is probably the best starting point

actually, there's a WP plugin that does FF=>wp.org

http://wordpress.org/extend...

so it's happening already. this is a good thing, a very good thing

Re: louisgray.com: Disqus' Partner Strategy: Is FriendFeed Integration Up Next?

Michael McGimpsey — Thu, 29 May 2008 05:07:07 -0000

FriendFeed comments need improving. Disqus is most definitely the way to go. Fingers crossed that this does happen. FriendFeed would reach a whole new level with the Disqus commenting system.

Re: louisgray.com: Disqus' Partner Strategy: Is FriendFeed Integration Up Next?

tjgillies — Thu, 29 May 2008 05:02:00 -0000

awesome post, well done!

Re: louisgray.com: Disqus' Partner Strategy: Is FriendFeed Integration Up Next?

Yohan Yukiya 사요한 謝雪矢 — Thu, 29 May 2008 04:12:29 -0000

Can't agree more. Thanks to DISQUS, I can now keep up with the DISQUS-sions. (seriously :p and I discover new blogs too!)

Re: louisgray.com: Disqus' Partner Strategy: Is FriendFeed Integration Up Next?

Yohan Yukiya 사요한 謝雪矢 — Thu, 29 May 2008 03:58:49 -0000

But in offline conversations, we do not have a means of communicating "worldwide" so we don't need such "ownership" concept and whatnot. In the world wide web, things evolved where we need "ownership" and being able to follow the conversation.

We say that 2 brains is better than one. Well, if we can follow conversations regardless of platform, then we are slowly building a world-conscience, a world-discussion.

SezWho+DISQUS+FriendFeed will be the power-trio in my PoV. And I like to add Outbrain.com to the list.

Re: louisgray.com: Disqus' Partner Strategy: Is FriendFeed Integration Up Next?

Yohan Yukiya 사요한 謝雪矢 — Thu, 29 May 2008 03:53:51 -0000

I strongly agree. I comment more often on DISQUS enabled sites than those that still use their native/built-in comment system. And I don't even use FriendFeed's Comment system even though some WP blogs have it below/after DISQUS. The key requirement is a hassle - I just want to leave a comment.

The partnership that could develop will really finally complete the migration to "Comments 2.0" (yeah 2.0 again).

SezWho+DISQUS+FriendFeed, what else could we ask for?

Re: louisgray.com: Disqus' Partner Strategy: Is FriendFeed Integration Up Next?

Leslie Poston — Thu, 29 May 2008 02:43:06 -0000

I would love to see SezWho, FriendFeed, Disqus and the orginating blog play int he same sandbox. I have so many demands on my time already that keeping up with the conversation often gets lost in the shuffle. @geechee_girl

Re: louisgray.com: Disqus' Partner Strategy: Is FriendFeed Integration Up Next?

obscurelyfamous — Thu, 29 May 2008 01:31:53 -0000

I made this comment on Steven's blog a minute ago:

Hey guys, just a note: our API does have a write-back method. The docs are online but not public just yet. It's being used/tested by some services.

Re: louisgray.com: Disqus' Partner Strategy: Is FriendFeed Integration Up Next?

Chris Baskind — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:19:41 -0000

I'm liking Disqus so far, having been testing it on a largely unused site the past few days.

I'd appreciate the FF integration. It would certainly tip me toward installing Disqus on my production sites.

Re: louisgray.com: Disqus' Partner Strategy: Is FriendFeed Integration Up Next?

mathewi — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:40:15 -0000

what a coincidence :-)

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Re: louisgray.com: Disqus' Partner Strategy: Is FriendFeed Integration Up Next?

Louis Gray — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:38:03 -0000

Yes, I saw that. Good work. I logged into Google Reader, and saw your post just after mine. You know what they say about minds that think alike...