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louisgray.com: louisgray.com: Trackbacks Are Still Dead. Could Tweetbacks Take Their Place?

  • Louis Gray · 10 months ago
    Post by Phil Glockner: http://friendfeed.com/eng1ne
  • jonathanhopkins · 10 months ago
    Surely FeedBacks?
  • Phil Glockner · 10 months ago
    FeedBacks. I like that sound of that. :)
  • Corvida · 10 months ago
    Tweetbacks definitely have the potential to go pretty viral. I'm sure there are plenty of bloggers who receive more tweetbacks than trackbacks. However, they're also used in very different ways so I wouldn't necessarily call Tweetbacks a replacement for Trackbacks.
  • Phil Glockner · 10 months ago
    Not a replacement, no. The problem with linkbacks in general is that, especially on big blogs, they are heavily 'gamed', making them essentially useless for tracking buzz.
  • Josh Chandler · 10 months ago
    This translation between text only to interaction in blogs has excited me, to even say that Trackbacks could be translated into something more interactive and engaging is something every blogger should be taking notice of, I make use of FriendFeed Comments in my Wordpress blog and it works great, I think I even remember Louis Gray having it in this blog for a while, to interact with a post, post original thought and insight and at the same time change the blogging system persona is the way things have got to keep going, the further we distance ourselves from this model of "Blog Post> Blog Comment" and move into "Blog Post> Friendfeed/Twitter Conversation" then we can have a much more versatile conversation around a post
  • Louis Gray · 10 months ago
    Josh, I was previously using a solution from Pat Hawks that displayed
    comments from FriendFeed on the blog. Now, I utilize FF2Disqus and
    that works very well, so I was able to remove the previous solution,
    and speed up my page loading.
  • Phil Glockner · 10 months ago
    I replied to you on the entry, Corvida. Just FYI so I don't duplicate here.
  • morganb · 10 months ago
    I don't think it's too hard to envision Facebook Connect providing this type of reverse notification to the blogs that get shared and posted to profiles, fan pages,and group pages on Facebook. As the sharing mechanisms become more disparate I think that services like FriendFeed that aggregate many sources under one umbrella will emerge as favored resources for bloggers to track buzz.
  • Phil Glockner · 10 months ago
    In fact, a service called PostRank does this already for RSS feed entries, and they have started developing widgets and other things that expose this rating system.
  • Roger Harris · 10 months ago
    Great post. Thanks Phil.

    This is yet another example, to my mind, of how Twitter is going to impact how we manage our personal information management system. (This is a topic I have blogged on.) That is, microblogs and aggregators such as FriendFeed are going to be essential tools as social search provides more efficient ways (than search engines) of finding what we are looking for online.