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Mashable, Disqus and UberVU Launch Social Media Comments
Mashable, Disqus and UberVU Launch Social Media Comments
Go on, Tweet this post. Or share it on FriendFeed . Or post about it on Blogger , Movable Type , TypePad or WordPress blogs. Or link to it from a Flickr comment. Or comment on the story on Digg . Or add a comment linking to this post from YouTube , Vimeo or Picasa . You can talk about this ...
Google CEO: Twitter A 'Poor Man's Email System'
Google CEO: Twitter A 'Poor Man's Email System'
businessinsider.com — Real-time microblogging and messaging services like Twitter could potentially become a threat to Google -- whose search... index doesn't keep up with conversations as quickly as Twitter's. So what does Google (GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt think about Twitter? "Speaking as a computer scientist, I view ... (more) Google CEO: Twitter A 'Poor Man's Email System'
USocial CEO: 'We're gaming Digg'
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Disqus lands Mashable, adds social tracking
The Inquisitr » Technology — ... Pete Cashmore writes on Mashable that the system isn’t perfect yet, and that ideally it will eventually include the ability to post back to these services. ...

Tweetbacks and More From Disqus
A VC — ... to me and I bet to many other bloggers. 3) Retweet the comment. There is now a checkbox in the disqus comment field to retweet the comment you are leaving. This may be an even bigger deal because so many amazing comments are just behind the comment link. Now you, the commenter, can tell the world about your amazing comment and get the traffic to it you deserve. Disqus partnered with a company called UberVU to deliver these features. Disqus posted about this news and so did Mashable. You can see the new features in action on that Mashable post. ...

Intense Debate blog comment system now supports plugins
Download Squad — ... and YouTube that let users embed polls or videos in blog comments. There's also a Seesmic plugin that lets you record video comments within your web brower. There's also an API allowing developers to create their own plugins adding other features. Intense Debate competitor Disqus has also been busy rolling out new features including the ability to tie in social networking comments from FriendFeed, Digg, Twitter, and other sources. [via Mashable] Intense Debate blog comment system now supports plugins originally appeared ...

Use uberVU’s new tools to pull conversations back to your blog
VentureBeat — ... connect social sites with comment threads, but uberVU integrates a wide range of services. This makes the original article (rather than a link on, say, FriendFeed, or on Digg) the center of the conversation. For now, developers can access the API for free as long as they don’t make more than 5,000 requests per day and are using it for non-commercial purposes. The API infrastructure is handled by Mashery. UberVU has already integrated with Mashable and Disqus, the commenting service that we use for VentureBeat’s ...

UberVU’s new tools pull conversations back to your blog
VentureBeat — ... connect social sites with comment threads, but uberVU integrates a wide range of services. This makes the original article (rather than a link on, say, FriendFeed, or on Digg) the center of the conversation. For now, developers can access the API for free as long as they don’t make more than 5,000 requests per day and are using it for non-commercial purposes. The API infrastructure is handled by Mashery. UberVU has already integrated with Mashable and Disqus, the commenting service that we use for VentureBeat’s ...

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