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Hi guys. I have a Blogger blog with Disqus comments, and I'd like to move it to Posterous without losing the comments. I tried importing the blog to Wordpress first and then integrating Disqus to the new WP blog, but that doesn't seem to work. Any ideas?
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Help me decide: Disqus vs Intense Debate vs TypePad Connect vs JS-Kit Comments
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What's your pick and why?
- Berk D. Demir
What a question! I'm using Disqus and can't do an honest appraisal because I haven't tried the others. I too would love to hear some comparisons from those who have tried the different options.
- Kenley Neufeld
I haven't closely compared feature sets, but I'd go with Disqus just because it seems to be everywhere. A potential commenter is likely to have a Disqus account already.
- Bruce Lewis
I would say go w/ IntenseDebate (owned by Wordpress) or Disqus. IntenseDebate has OpenID support, Disqus does not. Disqus can do ratings if integrated w/ Outbrain.com. Whichever you use, make sure to tap into the API so you have your own copy of all the comments.
- Daniel Sims
Disqus. Hands down.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Disqus
- Calon
frustrating when no one explains why isn't it Berk
- Zee.
Using ID for my Blogger site and Disqus for my Tumblr site. Too bad LiveJournal won't let you use 3rd-party commenting systems and you have to pay to use TypePad, otherwise I could try one of the others.
- Ron Bailey
OK. Actually no one is talking about their particular reasons. Let me ease your burden. Here are some comparative parameters. 1) Availability 2) Performance 3) Manageability 4) Customizability 5) Authentication Sources 6) Niche Features 7) Userbase and marketshare 8) Trust to the backing org/co. 9) Others?
- Berk D. Demir
And what do you do if the service you pick goes belly-up and takes all your comments with it? I have been there before. Anybody remember Enetation? I had a paid account and still lost all my comments.
- April Russo (app103)
I like Disqus because of rated comments, video comments, and easy comment moderation.
- Sweyn Venderbush
If I had to pick it would be Disqus. It works well in my WP site. It some lots of nice features and the new "social comments" feature being testes on Mashable looks amazing.
- Kol Tregaskes
Avoid Intense Debate. When their back end goes down - so will your site. Ours went down at least three times before figuring out it was not our host but ID. They also brought down a number of other sites and Intense Debate hasn't much to say about it. We're in the process of switching to Disqus as that seems to be the most widely used.
- Wayne Schulz
I am already using Disqus and I like it a lot. Also check social media contents on Mashable which they plan to make it available to all users.
- ropiku
Disqus lets you leave anonymous comments, if I remember correctly.
- Tyson Key
I've said it about a million times before, Disqus rocks, but what I'm missing from it is the support for trackbacks. Afaik, that's a limitation that intense debate also has.
- Vincent van Wylick
After reading all inputs here (and I also recommend http://themindstorms.wordpress.com/2009... ), I chose js-kit because of (1) comment syncing (@april ruso: if they go belly up, I've got a local backup) (2) the ability to be an anonymous-yet-accountable "troll" (i.e. no-questions-asked openid login) , (3) good enough localization and skinning capability for a Hebrew (direction:rtl) site. Hope this information is helpful
- ĎÚβĨŐÚŚ Dod
Disqus because it's very easy to manage, spam count is low, plenty of features, great UI design, Facebook connect integration. What more do you need in a comment system?
- Corvida
I guess the ability to be a troll is high up there? Doesn't Disqus do rtl?
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I have only use Disqus, so I say and stick on that
- Kristian Salonen
Intense Debate is pretty good from my perspective as an end-user, although I haven't tried to enable it for any of the sites I run.
- Tyson Key
@rasheem "ablility to be a troll" is a basic human right. I don't want to have a blog where only people "who have nothing to hide" can comment, because they only have boring stuff to say. As for rtl - I've seen an *almost* working Hebrew disqus implementation at http://holesinthenet.co.il but me and da misus have managed to make js-kit much more Hebrew than that pretty fast: http://imagebin.ca/view...
- ĎÚβĨŐÚŚ Dod
It would be nice to hear about these alternatives from the point of view of the end user. It is all very well having a system that makes your life as an author/admin easier but if readers/commenters hate it, it's a no go for me.
- Bill Glover
Thanks for the recs, guys. Berk - I'm from Disqus. We're very responsive and will help you every step of the way if you have more questions.
- Daniel Ha
From an end user's point of view...a commenter on a blog: I had my first experience with Intense Debate the other day and found it quite annoying. I had a hard time editing spelling mistakes when I re-read my comment before posting. I could not relocate the cursor within the comment box. I had to select all to copy & paste to notepad, then delete everything in the box and copy the...
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- April Russo (app103)
@ Daniel - sorry to pick on you in an FF thread - but I recently switched my (hosted) Wordpress blog to Disqus. I like the (promised) features of the app a lot - but ... I have four fairly major issues with it (Facebook Connect doesn't work, no ability to moderate trackbacks, comment counts don't show up on posts etc.) and have four unanswered support queries open in your forums, the oldest is 9 days old. Have had to resort to a Twitter callout to get any response at all lately ...
- Patrick Jordan
Oh, and here's my 'compilation' thread, detailing four isssues, and linking to oldest support forum queries on them etc: http://disqus.disqus.com/many_is...
- Patrick Jordan
Thanks for all responses. I made my decision after testing all of them. From worst to best. TypePad's performance is at rock bottom. It's availability in 5 days span was below 85%. IntenseDebate has serious latency problems which confuses the commenter but JS load time was fast. JS-Kit is pretty promising. SezWho acquisition is still fresh thus it still has some rough edges with CSS customization and OpenID... And the winner is ...(drums)... Disqus!
- Berk D. Demir
Disqus's availability was 99.82%. Load time was best among all. Widgets are cool. Management site is clear and responsive. I've tested comment importing and wrote an API consumer with App Engine in minutes. API response time is not great but very sufficient... Only negative thing about Disqus was its incomplete wiki. I hope it'll be populated soon.
- Berk D. Demir
I went with Disqus because the feedback their service receive is almost 98 % positive.
- SkyKid
everyone loves disqus... and so do i
- Peter Efland
Disqus!
- Nate Pilling
Try this with Disqus: Create a private post. Now go to your Disqus community page. Last time I used the system - a few weeks back - it was loading my private posts into the community page. There's also no synch on the post titles, so if you change the title in WP, it still keeps the old title on your community page. And probably old content too. Instant deactivation.
- Marlin Forbes
IntenseDebate: performance is abysmal, JS files are loaded on EVERY page (even where not needed, like most of the admin panel). Support has known about it for at least 7 months. They do not seem to be coping. Unless you're on a fast line on the backbone in the States, this one will bring your site to its knees.
- Marlin Forbes
Disqus Rulz
- Francisco Espinoza
from BuddyFeed
Dear Robert Scoble: Where are the older comments on your blog? Everything that's not on Disqus is gone!
Kol Tregaskes, Shawn Hickman, Abdul Rehman Khawar and 15 other people liked this
Yup, Scoble's comment migration strikes again. This is why I no longer comment on his blog. Why should I invest in a conversation when he is going to throw it away?
- Michael R. Bernstein
Those aren't lost forever now, are they? I hope not
- Yuvi
They probably are. In the past Robert has offered such excuses as 'oops', 'I'm not a techie', I can't get an export of the data', and so on.
- Michael R. Bernstein
Hmmm... good point, Yuvi.
- Louis Gray
Hmmm, I thought we imported them all. Gotta check into this. What day do they seem to stop at?
- Robert Scoble
I can't help but notice though that the long-term effect is to reduce the googlejuice his blog 'leaks' to other sites, as well as to remove much of the debate and disagreement from his site.
- Michael R. Bernstein
Michael: I didn't remove them on purpose.
- Robert Scoble
We moved from hosted wordpress to our own server and I want better integration with friendfeed which is why we moved to Disqus.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, I didn't mean to imply that removal of the comments was deliberate. But you have to admit that you've shown a fairly consistent pattern of neglect in this area, one that spans years.
- Michael R. Bernstein
And I would be the last person to tell you *not* to move to a new system for better features. I'd point out that I hadn't complained about that after past migrations either, but of course, those comments are gone.
- Michael R. Bernstein
Michael: well, if you want to be fair, you also have to remember that the first year and a half of MY blog is gone never to come back. The comments are still around, so I'll get them ported over if I can. I might need some help from Disqus.
- Robert Scoble
Sure, I'll be fair: That incident taught you to back up your blog. But how many botched comment migrations have there been since then?
- Michael R. Bernstein
Michael: I only remember one when I moved from Halo Scan to Wordpress.com's internal comments. That lost a ton and there wasn't much I could do about it. That's the danger of using systems you don't control. Actually moving to Disqus will make sure your comments never get lost. By the way, I see the problem and am working to fix it. I can still see all the old comments and they are in wordpress's database.
- Robert Scoble
You forget the one where you moved *to* haloscan,
- Michael R. Bernstein
Michael: yup, but all those comments are gone anyway because my blog was deleted when Userland shut down Radio Userland.
- Robert Scoble
And there was one botched migration that happened while you were still using Radio, I don't recall the system.
- Michael R. Bernstein
The blog deletion was a separate issue that happened later, *after* the comments were lost. Don't conflate the two.
- Michael R. Bernstein
I don't remember that one, but this is why I'm trying to move to Disqus: so that comments will be backed up three times. Right now if you comment on my blog it's put into three separate databases: into Disqus. Into wordpress (which, funny enough, has both old and new comments which tells me there's a replication issue here), and into friendfeed. Sorry about the earlier issues, when I...
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- Robert Scoble
Let it go Michael. There are more important things in life ;-)
- Chris Nixon
You *can* do something about it: insist on being able to export your data to maintain your own backup. I've told you that before too.
- Michael R. Bernstein
Michael: I conflate the two because you claimed I was getting advantages of deleting your Google juice and the debate that happened in the comments. If I was doing it for that reason I would have made sure not to have my own blog deleted. I'm sorry for these problems, but shit happens. It's the Internet. I'm trying to choose more stable systems now.
- Robert Scoble
Michael: I have the data from the latest problem. Still doesn't help if it doesn't get imported into Disqus properly, does it?
- Robert Scoble
It will if you make it an issue with Disqus. Anyway, I'll drop it for now.
- Michael R. Bernstein
I think lots of folks have trouble with Disqus and comments import - I know it has never worked for me. My impression of Disqus is that in their rush to bring along cool new features, they do not pay much attention to the basics, like making sure existing features work, and support :(
- Patrick Jordan
Patrick: I'll work with them. If I can't make it work we'll turn off Disqus and try something else. All the data is still in wordpress, so that's safe.
- Robert Scoble
Why not just build it so comments are directly in friendfeed? I know a guy who can do this.
- Alex Scoble
Michael, despite best intentions, sometimes data gets lost. I don't think anybody here thinks Robert did this on purpose. I lost comments when I went from Haloscan to Blogger also, and tried to preserve Blogger comments when I moved to Disqus. I have no doubt Robert will work to get the rest.
- Louis Gray
Alex: that is what I really want. A wordpress plugin that duplicates my comments exactly into friendfeed. Anyone know of a plugin like that? I know of a system that's working on such a thing, too.
- Robert Scoble
Disqus is pretty good with our comments. I lost a ton of good posts when I went from Drupal to Wordpress...
- Anthony Farrior
I know a guy who can integrate your blog with friendfeed. http://www.twofedoras.com/
- Alex Scoble
DIsqus comment import worked pretty well for me. I wouldn't have noticed if I were not writing a scraper :) I wish Disqus had a *real* API though. The current one doesn't let me get your data unless I have your password (hah), so that sucks :(
- Yuvi
Robert - yeah, I'm not suggesting dropping them and not thinking of that at my site either - I just wish their focus would switch a little to (much) better support, making existing features work better, and improving their horrendous anti-spam filter ...
- Patrick Jordan
Robert, there shouldn't be an issue importing older comments if it's the same comment database. Have you done the import process?
- Daniel Ha
Yuvi, I'm always around. Robert, hit us up if there's an issue (wasn't clear if there was one) or we'll follow up today.
- Daniel Ha
Daniel: I'll have my web guy contact you. Thanks!
- Robert Scoble
Hi Guys, the comments aren't lost, Robert actually made a specific request to make sure we didn't lose any. Just wrestling with the Disqus import system. Daniel Ha, ping me please.
- Vid Luther
Guys don't worry all the comments are there, just Michael Bernstein's were lost...oh @#$%^$ is this thing recording...
- Chad Harris
They should be back now. Sorry for the downtime.
- Robert Scoble
At the ripe old age of 104, Ivy Bean is the worlds oldest Twitterer. - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
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Mitchell Tsai, Brian Bufalo, Brown Letua and 102 other people liked this
We need to get her over to FriendFeed too ;)
- Nicholas James
It would be too fast for her.
- Lokei Atikus™®
Twitter has officially jumped the shark.
- Brad Williamson
Brad, I don't see how that reference applies at all here.
- Tyler Hayes
Twitter has not jumped the shark. It is not dead. It is simply popular, however quickly it's on its way to jumping the shark.
- Matthew Allen Horton
This looks encouraging for the people of half her age to join the web bandwagon.
- ashish
This is wonderful! PS: Why are there always some people who have to make stupid comments?
- Verena Fuchs
Not only is this a testament as to the popularity of the Twitter social networking service, but it also disproves the old stereotype that the elderly doesn't understand today's technology.
- Thomas Ward
Exactly so, Thomas! well said.
- Melanie Reed
It wouldn't be too fast for her. There are assistive technologies (puff and sip) and new ones coming that can keep up.
- Melanie Reed
Just use pause, like I do. Live streaming is too much like watching TV, which immediately turns me off.
- Ernie Oporto
I hope some more people "follow" her and enjoy the internet. It does not replace the joy of social life but she can enjoy having the feeling of being connected.
- ashish
Way to go, Ivy!!
- Robert Couture
Why wouldn't you link to the original article? http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol... And she's 103, and the oldest Twitterer in UK, not the world.
- Mark Trapp
I wouldn't even bother trying to explain Twitter to my parents.
- Donald Forth
Oh, my... Remember the news: http://edition.cnn.com/2008...
- Alp
Longevity isn't for wimps. However, if you make it to 100+, you too can enjoy an exciting rewarding future as a media-prop for some random future technology. Of course, you'll suck, because you're old; for we all know that http://alloldpeoplesuck.blogspot.com/ -- #Sardonic-Hyperbole-With-A-Message
- michael silverton
Apparently this is a scam. techcrunch article has more: http://tr.im/lz2B
- Angus Burton
Scam is bullshit. She's on there and still tweeting. Whether she's on Twitter because of a newspaper or because someone but a gun to her head, ages still on there, 104 years old and still Tweeting. Ahh, there, I feel better :)
- Zee.
oh and she just tweeter twice in the last 45 mins
- Zee.
Ivy is so sweet! A living testament that social media demographics are constantly evolving!
- Anna Barcelos
I messed up last night and confused Python with PHP. #scoblefail @Devindra and @jesse were among those who noticed. Egg on face, wipe off.
Jesse Stay, Durukan Duru, Jo Booth and 5 other people liked this
not as bad as the LA Times "confusion" yesterday; you get a pass
- sofarsoShawn
I think it is @br3nda who says she only likes/uses languages that start with the letter 'P' you're forgiven.
- Jo Booth
yeah i was wondering about that when i read the blog post
- Nathan Eckenrode
i noticed too, but figured it was already mentioned, and didn't want to pile on ya
- Chris Heath
It's still impressive that you were trying to read the PHP
- Jesse Stay
I decided to let it pass.
- DGentry
When Google will support PHP on Google App Engine (they only support Python and Java for now), they are going to be hosting all the wordpress blogs, phpbb forum boards and mediawiki installs that are out there, all imported for free and hosted for free by Google for the whole world
- Charbax
For my blog redesign, we are looking at Disqus, Intense Debate, BackType, commenting engines. Should we use any? Which one? Discuss here:
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Or should we just stick with Wordpress' comments and use a Plugin to bring friendfeed comments into it? Like what TechCrunch is doing.
- Robert Scoble
My design is looking pretty nice. They used the Thesis theme. Coming soon. Can't wait to blog again!
- Robert Scoble
Yes. Keep it simple, but keep the conversation only on friendfeed/your site.
- Daniel Morgan
In the apps room, most people liked Disqus better.
- Bruce Lewis
TechCrunch format works for me
- Julie Williams
Disqus is simple, allows twitter re-posting, Facebook Connect, and OpenID authentication, and some nice RSS feeds.
- Jesse Hattabaugh
Robert: The BackType Connect plugin works on top of the Wordpress comment system -- so we aren't a replacement comment system
- Christopher Golda
what about JS-Kit?
- Nick Halstead
I like Disqus.
- Tami Baribeau
Scoble: Screenshots!
- Gustav Holmström
JS-Kit are still the market leaders from the numbers I have seen
- Nick Halstead
Disqus + friendfeed: mebbe a plugin that will allow using a post box on your blog, that will make it part of FF conversation
- Shivanand Velmurugan
I'm prefering Disqus. good support. they're going after the integration and really on top of the whole discussion world.
- SolidSmack
Thesis Theme? or Thesis-Like Theme? (did you hear about the controversy?) -- also count one vote for Disqus
- Chris Heath
Go with Disqus.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
I like Disqus. :) Very simple to use, and great service if you need help.
- Daynah
+1 on Disqus
- Patrick Boegel
I like Disqus too. Their FF integration could be cleaner though...
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Definitely Disqus, gotta love how it keeps you logged in across sites.
- Tyler Hayes
why are their so many? i just dont understand the advantages. although the techcrunch model seems to be the easiest
- Cory
Facebook connect is a must IMO
- Daniel J. Pritchett
from IM
Techcrunch comments (trees) + voting.
- Stoicho Monev
I'm not a blogger, nor do I participate much on blogs, but I like Disqus because of the "like"-system. The ability to like comments gives readers somewhat to do on your blog. That is, something easier than commenting themselves.
- Meryn Stol
Cory: TechCrunch's CrunchCam is a group/room on friendfeed and you can post to it and then there can be comment threads underneath each post... kind of cool that you get an extra level of threading by doing that, but that only works for a single page not a whole run of pages, each with their own set of comments.
- Chris Heath
This really comes down to 3rd party comment system vs native comment system. If you want the latter, you can supplement with BackType Connect if you like. Here's an e.g. of it running on WP comments (threaded): http://bit.ly/Jk9cY
- Christopher Golda
To expand on what Shivanand and Daniel said, Disqus has a "Social media reactions" feature that pulls in comments from other sites, including FriendFeed. Example here: http://ourdoings.com/ourdoin...
- Bruce Lewis
I like Disqus, too; using it on my WordPress site. FB Connect and Twitter integration is nice, as are individual profiles.
- Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
I like Disqus+FriendFeed, but I'd say whatever you do Facebook Connect, Google Friend Connect, or some other system such that users don't have to create yet another account on your blog to comment/participate is a must. No way would I maintain my own user DB these days.
- Ken Sheppardson
I think that liking comments make individual blog pages somewhat nicer to be at. A bit of interaction, a bit of play. Certainly for visitors who are coming from FriendFeed.
- Meryn Stol
I think a custom thing is better cause only you know what needs your has
- Andy Gongea
JS-KIT works very well
- Mark
I like Disqus, works well on every blog and brings in a large number of social network 'reactions' to your articles.
- Mathew Packer
Having tried them all, I'm liking plain Wordpress comments with Backtype connect. It's a clean, fast solution without all the javascript slowdowns.
- Bwana ☠
Thanks for all the feedback, this really helps. Looks like we're going with Disqus.
- Robert Scoble
I am using Disqus and I am satisfied. I guess all are good alternatives!
- Manos Matsakis
Somehow I already knew that :)
- Bwana ☠
Disqus has been my favorite so far. I'm actually considering a custom engine I may write though - I'm thinking of something like Disqus in a frame on the left side, and real-time FriendFeed and maybe Facebook in a frame on the right below the post.
- Jesse Stay
If I find the time to do it each new post will auto-submit to FriendFeed/Facebook, and track the comments of that post on each site and auto-update real-time (or as close as possible)
- Jesse Stay
I really like Disqus. Simple, straight forward. Can't put my finger on it but when I see Diqus is an option i am much more likely to comment. That said, could be a reason to use another to keep me form commenting. :)
- Kevin Murray
Disqus is a good choice but beware their do follow username links. I get more spam than I would like - I would guess you'd get a good bit more because of that and their spam filtering needs some upgrading
- David Knight
Good point, David. I get a decent amount of spam via Disqus and my blog is orders of magnitude smaller than Robert's.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I have a gmail address, i get (almost) no spam (in my inbox)
- Chris Heath
im really enjoying intense debate.i love the voting system and tiered responses. also its super easy to link all your social profiles through.
- Jason Fleck
I have loved Intense Debate because of the super fast email moderation, but I also like BackType too. Haven't tried Disqus but I have heard some moving away from it.
- Brandon Cox
Robert, are you *finally* going to pay attention to issues of comment export and import *before* you adopt a new system? The main reason I no longer comment on your blog is because you've shown little compunction over dumping comments wholesale whenever you migrate to a new service.
- Michael R. Bernstein
Personally, I'm liking disqus right now. you can also combine it with friendfeed comments like @kylelacy is
- Colin Clark
Kyle is using ID and I don't see FF comments on this post - am I missing something? http://kylelacy.com/top-5-r...
- Daniel J. Pritchett
from IM
As a commenter I really appreciate the Disqus system. I tend towards epic length comments, often worth reblogging. Disqus makes that very simple. I would like it even more if the FriendFeed was integrated both ways with the Disqus. The one thing I don't like about Disqus is the disjointed way that the comments are brought into FriendFeed. (each comment s a separate feed entry instead of...
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- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
@Robert actually JS-Kit has the most users/pages http://siteanalytics.compete.com/js-kit... - Also wait until our meeting next week and we will show you some interesting stuff ;)
- Chris Saad
Chris: can I add JS-Kit after going with Disqus?
- Robert Scoble
Chris: I don't care which one has the most mainstream users. I care which one has the most respect amongst friendfeed users.
- Robert Scoble
JS-Kit loads on the Cheezburger network, that doesn't necessarily equate to more active participants
- Daniel J. Pritchett
from IM
Robert. Disqus is the way to go! they have the best customer service I've ever seen. help@disqus.com try it for yourself. they're incredibly fast and very reliable.
- Adam Jackson
Backtype, non-third party, keeping main comment structure, pulls in comments directly on the page itself (as do others but a lot less messy) and easier to integrate. :-) My two cents!
- Maria Reyes-McDavis
@Robert JS-Kit connects you to more users via OpenID, Yahoo, Google Friend Connect, Twitter, Facebook and others coming. Some other things coming that we can discuss next week. U can switch from Disqus to JS-Kit after the fact, yes.
- Chris Saad
I second Chris Saad on JS-Kit. This is a pretty helpful thread as I was looking for feedback about what comments engine we use. thanks for posting this
- Sardar Mohkim Khan
Chris: is there integration between js-kit & FriendFeed?
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
@Guruvan there is no explicit friendfeed connect yet - but when we do it it will be very slick
- Chris Saad
My vote goes to Disqus.
- Alexander Grundner
A personal blog with social media/tech emphasis: DISQUS. But I'm using Intense Debate 'most everywhere right now. WP integration is much better. For me, though, its spam tools carry the day. I have no idea why I must delete DISQUS spam one message at a time.
- Chris Baskind
Still using DISQUS, but find that it has a very awkward integration with WP. I can't seem to log on through the WP frame. Trying ID next.
- Bill Sanders
Chris Saad: Do you have any timeframe for a FF connect? This is my big interest as I grow my blog - 2 way integration between comments here and on the blog. Between that and the commenter's ability to have an archive (and reblog) or their own comments. (I guess I'm not big enough to worry about spam yet!)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Robert: don't count IntenseDebate out just yet. As part of Automattic we can offer tighter integrations with WordPress, Akismet, Gravatar, and PollDaddy (among other future projects). In addition to our FriendFeed, Twitter, and Facebook Connect (beta) integrations, we've also opened up our code for developers to create their own plugins. You can check out IntenseDebate in action here - http://tinyurl.com/aossrd - where we've got several of our plugins enabled. I'm happy to answer any questions.
- Michael Koenig
Michael: Can we see the beta integrations somewhere? Especially the FF integration...
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Disqus please
- Jadito
All blog comments should be posted on the friendfeed thread for that blog post and vice-versa. So all commenters on your blog should be authenticated on friendfeed (also can use Google, Facebook, Twitter authentification).
- Charbax
There is a wordpress plugin for Google FriendConnect to manage Open Social authenticated comments which I am experimenting with..
- Charbax
guruvan (Rob Nelson): Here's some info from our blog about our FF integration http://tinyurl.com/bfedb4. Facebook Connect is the only integration that's in beta and it's up and running on our blog as well. It will be out of beta in the coming weeks.
- Michael Koenig
Michael: so am I to understand from that blog entry, that the FriendFeed comments are one-way? i.e. Pulling comments from FF into the blog. What I would like to see is the commentary go both ways (I, of course don't know how feasible this really is ATM). It would be nice if all the comments in ID were associated with the original posting on FF. then the comments could come from either source, and the comment feed to FF would be all in one thread here. That said the whole system looks very cool.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I like Disqus, but doesn't generate ANY additional conversation on my blog and has downtime.
- Jason Nunnelley
guruvan (Rob Nelson): not yet, but that's the plan for the future. No ETA right now though. You can also pull your own IntenseDebate comment stream into FF. Thanks by the way for the kind words!
- Michael Koenig
Facebook and Disqus. I think Facebook is now becoming a must.
- Bill Romanos
Bill: Facebook? What are you doing there?
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Disqus is the best. BackType Connect is interesting as well.
- Louis Gray
Facebook Connect, et al for auth, and integrate w/ internal (asymmetric) storage of comments.
- Jason Nunnelley
Use Disqus, it comes with Facebook connect.
- Jan Ole Peek
Disqus.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Scoble, if you don't go with Disqus now, I swear to god...
- Tyler Hayes
Disqus is so slick. I'd go that route. Cheers.
- Aaron Salmon
please. the disqus login is just fine for those of us who comment on blogs that use it.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I've used and enjoyed Disqus now for several months. That's my pick.
- Mike Lewis
can friendfeed be enabled to be a commenting system for your blog?
- Tim Connors
Tim, you mean like a FF Connect? (like Facebook, Google, and Twitter)
- Tyler Hayes
Tim: FriendFeed is used for commenting on Shey's blog (this is pretty slick IMO) http://www.sheysmith.com/
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Rob: I do like that. Tyler: yes like facebook connect but not tied to just one social media service.
- Tim Connors
Tim, if it's like Facebook Connect but just for FriendFeed, how is it not tied to just one soc. med. service? I'm assuming you just mean it as another way for people to post comments, rather than only having the imported FF comments to your blog serve as comments (as then all commentators would have to be registered on FF).
- Tyler Hayes
good question. i was thinking since FF allows users to plug in to many social nets, if the comment is made from within FF or from within a FF widget on Robert's blog, seems he gets maximum distribution... and maximum chance the conversation is mostly available in one thread. and future proofing for when goog/yahoo/msft launch their newsfeeds/streams. and if the links on twitter and facebook back to the conversation are to his blog vs FF, Robert gets lots of monetizable pageviews there.
- Tim Connors
I think the best way to go is to use a FriendFeed plugin through WordPress. This way, you can keep an accurate track of your site's visitors, since all of your comments will be made from the site itself or from FriendFeed.
- Thomas Ward
You already made your mind, but i'm going to cast my vote on disqus too. They do an amazing job, WP should come with it as default commenting system.
- Diego Sana
FriendFeed.
- Thomas Hawk
I like Disqus
- Karoli
Disqus ... still getting better. Excellent spam filter. Turn key-integration .... plus another 'community'
- Charlie Anzman
I loves Intense Debate - Very helpful guys if you should encounter any Probs.
- Brent - Loving Life
I like Disqus for selfish reasons. My Disqus comments to your blog end up not only in your blog, but in my FriendFeed, making them easier to find and share. Wordpress comments stay in Wordpress and are harder to find outside of the original context - some people like that, but I don't.
- John E. Bredehoft
John E. Bredehoft: If you want to import your Wordpress comments as well, check out www.backtype.com -- we're a service you can add to your FF account
- Christopher Golda
Disqus is my choice. I already enabled it on my blog. It would be easy for me to comment in your if you enable DISQUS!
- Krishnamoorthy
disqus, it's really great, i used it on my tumblr blog for a lot of time, i think i'll use that too on my blog, to replace intense debate
- Ivy /composmentis
Both disqus and Intense Debate can be a bit frustrating from a user perspective, logging in was at times an extra step, then the posting delay caused me to post duplicate comments which is a time waster. Is there that much of an advantage to using either is them?
- Albert Maruggi
I log into disqus once per browser session, and post on all disqus powered blogs. how is that an extra step? it's less steps. further, if the blog owner sets up the facebook connect for the disqus, it's a single click login. and this is harder than typeing in my name address and web address how?
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I personally like Intense debate, but really anything with Facebook connect is good by me.
- Sam Guzman
I am about to relaunch my blog and completing a comment migration to Disqus, but now realize that it was a trade-off. Comment security and centralized control versus a loss of some control and a weaker SPAM protection engine. Thanks for suggesting some other tools.
- Keith Barrett
I would suggest JS - Kit ...
- Dinesh Mohan Raturi
I like Disqus but I think Backtype is doing a better job picking up on mentions distributed across the social Web.
- Paul Jacobson
Disqus would be a useful commenting system
- Nicholas James
Disqus seems to be most robust and the beset choice. It does have a performance impact though (but that is true for other commenting systems also). I would suggest to test loadtime behaviour with e.g. http://www.octagate.com/service... or with YSlow on a test system before adding to your production blog.
- Jeroen De Miranda
DIsqus +1 works nicely with friendfeed. And easy way of having overview over all your discussions across the web.
- TobiasVerhoog.com
Robert: Disqus is innovating fast: added Twitter Sign In today: http://mashable.com/2009...
- mashable
now that's something! as much as I'm not a big fan of having twitter represent my identity, I'm definitely a fan of other people having that option to login here and on my blog ;)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Intense Debate works for me, but I've used the other engines, and they're fine too. comes down to personal taste. The few times I've had problems with ID, staff was very responsive via GetSatisfaction.
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LAG: That's the first (concrete) positive thing I've seen posted about Getsatisfaction. Thanks
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Are you still using WordPress? Is their built in commenting engine totally out of the question? I enjoy the new comment replies.
- James Poling
You should have said "Disqus here"! Ha. That's the service I dig.
- Michael Kaiser
guruvan: cool. I see the potential in GetSatisfaction. it's not perfect, but it makes a lot of sense. More social media companies should use it.
- .LAG liked that
dunno
- sofarsoShawn
Not looking at JS-Kit? Seriously, though, I'd just cover Google Friend Connect, FB Connect, and maybe Twitter. Between those, you'll have all of your bases covered. There's no point in choosing a walled garden unless it already has a critical mass of users.
- Steve Lynch
from twhirl
Hi...Only one comment to the best! What do u think about this:http://www.fdeflash.com/fpanel...
- Ferdy
Anything that doesn't require ANOTHER account
- Matthew Allen Horton
from fftogo
Disqus and IntenseDebate nearly have all the same features. The one thing I know that Intense Debate doesn't have is Facebook Connect or Twitter sign-in abilities yet.
- Kevin Eklund
Tried Disqus and tossed it out ... I don't use my blog much, but find js-kit products are solid and do what's advertised .... Commenting with FF is solid and just plain works!
- David HC Soul
from BuddyFeed
Thanks for all these helpful thoughts. :-)
- Martin Seibert
I went to Star Trek tonight and @josephscott from Automattic made sure his competitor had company ;) @danielha
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Wha? I love WordPress. :-)
- Daniel Ha
Yes, I think it only bothered him more than it bothered you - I was egging him on saying he should be bothered though. :-)
- Jesse Stay
A new "live web" experiment. We are brainstorming about Building43. What would you like to see there?
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Less noise and more interaction.
- Amit Nangare
A way to filter relevant info based on my previous likes and comments.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Stuff I don't know exists yet.
- Andrew Smith
Behind the scenes videos about how big scalable sites are architected.
- Henning
What is Building43? A community of people who are fanatical about the Internet.
- Robert Scoble
Collaborative projects like layertennis.com
- Andrew Smith
I would like to see lesser known, successful start ups. Companies that flew under the radar, yet continue to bring in revenue.
- Bwana ☠
Image/video/music integration section. Throw a Flickr link in, vimeo, etc. Music links: Blip.fm, Last,fm, iLike, etc.
- mtlb
i'd like to see more about what makes great companies function. more on web companies culture. office tours, sit downs with regular employees...etc
- patrick
Metadata.
- Matti Leppänen
A Special area where user groups and events could be advertised for people fanatical about then net could meet off line. ie. a space to collect meetups, tweetups and barcamps.
- Luke Kilpatrick
Cutting edge technology, which is not available anywhere else. Current trends in web industry.
- Pavel Senko
Free parking, clean restrooms and windows where the grunt employees can see outside (well, that was what my favorite building had).
- The Web's Wendell Wittler
Community - a place for coders, sysadmins, and others to share ideas, gather, and change the web. Something Web 2.0 that does this.
- Jesse Stay
But seriously, how about some new ways to use existing tools/resources/stuff?
- The Web's Wendell Wittler
a better way to read the content not live
- Gerd saurer
Ability to publish podcasts & vodcasts via social networks (i.e. FriendFeed, Twitter, Tumblr, etc.).
- Paul Maez
But it'd be good if you can match the user experience of Area 51... sorry, can't resist joking about the Building43 name.
- The Web's Wendell Wittler
Focus on open source - release tools they are using internally as open source, build community around that.
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: open source is a big deal, agreed.
- Robert Scoble
Wendell: heheh, I'd love to do a building43 episode from area51. :-)
- Robert Scoble
A large nude statue of you out front in full hulk mode. :-)
- Todd Hoff
Robert, is Building43 gonna be a site? How can you beat FriendFeed in terms of usability? We're quite fanatical about internet here I think. I like the idea of community (certainly with you involved), but I don't believe in dedicated sites for them.
- Meryn Stol
Jesse: a place for coders and sys admins makes a lot of sense. How about http://www.stackoverflow.com ? That's a place to discuss code. I'd like something like that in building43.
- Robert Scoble
Meryn: we already have a friendfeed room. Building43 is a distributed community, not a web site. http://friendfeed.com/rooms... is our room.
- Robert Scoble
I like to see you and other prominent community members start discussions... Exchange expertise with each other. Maybe involve guys from http://highscalability.com/ . But I like to see it all on my main feed. :)
- Meryn Stol
Meryn: highscalability is a great site, thanks.
- Robert Scoble
What I hope you can pull off is convince big brains to talk openly, in a casual manner, here on FriendFeed. Open to questions from people without this expertise. A bit like Digg is doing with its crowdsourced interviews. The more interactive the better. And the more "established" people, the better. Also if they are people we normally don't hear of, but play a big role behind the scenes. Rackspace is hosting quite some big sites I think. I wouldn't have a clue which ones though!
- Meryn Stol
Thought leadership around new IT organizational and operations models for emerging hyper scale, *2.0, and cloud computing companies...with focus on how legacy IT must evolve.
- dmcclure
Thanks for the plug Meryn.
- Todd Hoff
I think a "skunk works" mentality in projects and a "camp" like environment where the conversation is both the leveraging of technologies and the development of new ideas would be fantastic.
- Tony
Nice toilets - so many buildings have crappy bathrooms - maybe a covered entrance in case it rains.
- Allen Stern
I think a geographically diverse orientation (less california centric) might be a goal
- Brian Sullivan
A good reputation platform
- aaron
I would like to see a site without walls, a place that consumes mobility through text and video that is always learning that integrates your social networks with what you are discussing.
- Kevin Tunis
reduce the noise
- Francesco Marconi
Scientist sharing their projects and promoting science to students
- T J Petta
I'd like to know more about the steps that companies take when they go from small/startup to a bigger small company. Not a true "medium" sized business, but a firmly established small company that isn't bootstrapping anymore. I find this to be a grossly overlooked area. Not enough resources for the mature startup, we're too focused on the new new thing. How about the successful "old" new thing?
- Chris Stevenson
MORE FEMALES!
- Dawn
more females. lololololWHEEZElolololol
- alexia tsotsis
Lifestreaming Larry and Sergey's product reviews?
- Daniel Dulitz
photos.
- Thomas Hawk
Community of awesomeness dedicated to exploring this real time web thing to help drive new innovation and solve really hard problems.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
A place where people can be fanatical ABOUT the internet sure beats the old business model of simply being fanatical ON the internet. alt.binary.hamster.richardgere.ducktape springs immediately to mind.. :)
- Philip Tomlinson
I'm in Building 42. Different shop, tho.
- Clemens Vasters
An open source, multi-language, creative commons licensed, wiki where social media experts can contribute their thoughts by submitting page edits via friendfeed, twitter, identi.ca, adocu, and facebook updates. Oh, oh, ho: it must have live streaming video comments from seesmic, kyte, and ustream and a streaming ticker of pictures from flickr, zoooomr, and tiny. Host it on a cloud server and display the usage and compute metrics in the sidebar in real-time. It would be awesome!!!!!!!!!!!
- Steve Wilhelm
More on evolving data center tech like virtualization, cloud-computing... what are other companies doing successfully to cut costs using new tech.
- Jericho
58 wildebeeste, 22 guinea fowls with wellington boots on and a triceratops. :-)
- Richard A.
cup cakes
- Ian Tindale
Smart people who don't get exposure from leading blogs - and smart bloggers who don't get read.
- Louis Gray
Thx Louis! :o) My suggestion for 43: more LOLcats
- sofarsoShawn
Magic.
- Dani Radu
SocialWebTV! Do you need me to be more specific? I'm in a meeting , but I can elaborate on it later. It's right up your alley Robert!
- Michael Fidler
from twhirl
if every person on earth could add a message every second to the stream,what would that do? What if each of those messages was a vote on something. Is that a universal conscience?
- Tweet Feeds
Cutting edge stuff, not just web. Stuff that will bring the information in 'ambient' fashion to us when we want it. Tonchidot (remember them). IPTV, ambient information devices, mobile predictive information technologies. I want to see what is out there that is bringing us closer to the tech I saw in science fiction films a few decades ago.
- Andrew Leyden
Me, I want real rich desktop: iptv /many filtered search widgets, think netvibes on wheels / laptop cameras as live icons/ broadcast windows: post on twitter/fb and ff simultaneously/ - best
- pena schmidt
Disqus seems to be getting worse and worse as a comments manager. A friendfeed comments system would be the preferred solution.
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Any specifics on how we're getting worse? Are you referring to the site admin or commenter profile?
- Daniel Ha
Disqus admin integration with Wordpress seems to be deteriorating. The value add disappearing. And the conversation moved to FriendFeed, not to Disqus.
- Cliff Gerrish
Daniel: It's not like I get any blog traffic, but I do use the Disqus plugin a couple of places and I'm a fan. I don't have any specific complaints about the plugin admin, since it sorta seems to be just embedding a page from the Disqus site itself in the Wordpress UI. I really hope you and Bret and Paul are talking constantly about how Disqus and FriendFeed can interoperate and communicate. Like Cliff, I'd move over to some FriendFeed-based solution in a second if/when it's available.
- Ken Sheppardson
I thought Disqus was integrating FF and Twitter? I haven't seen it on my blog, but would very much like to.
- Karoli
Karoli: They are, and it's a great first step. It could always be better :-) http://blog.disqus.net/2009...
- Ken Sheppardson
More recently: http://blog.disqus.net/2009...
- Ken Sheppardson
Also "Social Media Reactions: Connect the conversation across the web" http://blog.disqus.net/2009...
- Ken Sheppardson
So here's where the current FF <-> Disqus integration breaks down: these two FF entries should be merged - http://beta.friendfeed.com/tychois... and http://beta.friendfeed.com/kshep...
- Ken Sheppardson
Yes, I'm not seeing any FF comments at all, and I'm fairly certain I have a few on various posts on my blog.
- Karoli
Karoli: If you want to see if your posts have generated FriendFeed items, give http://ffcheck.com a whirl.
- Ken Sheppardson
Cliff, Agreed about the WP admin integration. We made some internal changes to our moderation API that should make native WP admin more seamless. I'm not sure when we're able to release this, but I hope to have it available in the next major revision of the WP plugin. Thanks for the feedback.
- Daniel Ha
Ben & Jerry's launches Facebook Connect! Sweet! Literally. Chubby Hubby FTW. What is your favorite flavor? http://www.benjerry.com/flavors...
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Cherry Garcia FTW
- Daniel Ha
Chunky Monkey, of course!
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
If only my job were important enough to loudly talk about it on the phone while the airplane is boarding...
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You can call me and yell "Sell, sell, sell!" if it would make you feel better
- Bret Taylor
ROFL
- Jim Misses SP
Zing!
- MikeAmundsen
:D +1 Bret!
- directeur
I'm in row 28. You'll have to yell louder for me to hear, Paul. Or do you want me to call from back here?
- Louis Gray
HAHAHA
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Good idea Louis - that way we can both shout important sounding things.
- Paul Buchheit
Rule #1 of business: the more important the conversation is, the louder you should talk. That's enough biz talk for now. I'll give you rule #2 later.
- Ted Roden
LOL
- MiaD
I guess you can't "hide" that person's conversation. FriendFeed spoils us! And thanks, btw :)
- Josh Haley
seen that so many times...bonus points if they have a bluetooth headset
- Adam Singer
rather that, then some of the crap I have been "over hearing" for the past few months.
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
Oh my bad, I was talking to my Dad. His hearing is starting to decline a bit and he was asking what he should do with the rest of his retirement. Sail, sail, sail, of course.
- Kelly Norton
Paul, just try texting in ALL CAPS.
- Mike Reynolds
If anyone's job was that important they wouldn't be flying commercial.
- Will Higgins™
Why am I reminded of Merlin's that Phone Guy
- Micah Wittman
Start a meme: videos of loud cellphone talkers
- Chris Lamprecht
@Will: Alas, no, nowadays a lot of people are flying commercial in an effort to cut back, especially in client-service oriented industries. And whereas their jobs may not be that important in the grand scheme of things (i.e. the world economy won't collapse if they miss a call at the airport), in those industries especially, it's still as important as anything else to the clients.
- Brian Chang
ROFL, I hate it when people do that.
- Mike Elliott
Matthew Discovers the Nuances of the A-Train, Courtesy of @centernetworks
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In lieu of a cash settlement derived from Matthew's wrongful termination claim filed against CenterNetworks, (see: http://www.centernetworks.com/press-c...), Matthew accepted the gift "in kind" of a model A-Train. He is currently investigating its integrity. As per written agreement between the two parties, photographic evidence of said receipt was required, and we can now consider the matter closed.
- Louis Gray
from email
i believe that train has derailed! better get it back on the track :)
- Allen Stern
priceless ...
- Scott Moskowitz
cute!!! woo wooo!
- Susan Beebe
FriendFeed comments in Disqus and on this blog - http://www.benjamingolub.com/e...
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http://www.benjamingolub.com/e... to see it in action.
- Benjamin Golub
Wish I could get it to work. Looks nice.
- Chris Baskind
@Chris - doesn't work for you?
- Daniel Ha
I would like to see Disqus pull through Tumblr in addition to straight RSS.
- Jauder Ho
Hi, Daniel. I'm sure it's my setup. Looks like I have my blog piped to FF as a Custom RSS/Atom feed. Think that's it?
- Chris Baskind
When I read the Disqus blog post about it I noticed it was blog only. Custom RSS/Atom would be nice.
- Bruce Lewis
I've just switched. We'll see if that was it. Surely so.
- Chris Baskind
@Chris - That looks to be the reason. We check "Blogs" right now, but will be expanding it soon.
- Daniel Ha
Daniel, that will be good. The OurDoings point-and-click interface for adding your feed to FriendFeed sets up Custom RSS.
- Bruce Lewis
Nice...just when I had integrated FF comments into my FF API-driven blog with, errr, disqus comments (plus Facebook Connect and Seesmic enabled)!
- Bryan Landers
30368
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August 1992
- Gary Burd
wow :)
- Susan Beebe
Scott wins: http://friendfeed.com/e... He started in April, 1984.
- Gary Burd
1984 is hard to beat. How many employees were there at that time?
- Paul Buchheit
I don't remember the exact number. Somewhere between 300-500. We were in a single building that was shared with two other companies (who eventually moved out). http://maps.google.com/...
- Scott Ludwig
We have a new winner: http://friendfeed.com/mckoss 1983.
- Gary Burd
Scott: I remember in 1987 when Darrin left to go to MS. I told him he was foolish to leave games and go work for the man. His first day was the October 1987 stock crash - nice strike price. Yes, I am an idiot.
- Hayes Haugen
I remember suggesting that you join several times back in the day. I admired your independence streak!
- Scott Ludwig
Oh, is that what it's called?
- Hayes Haugen
I really like the way feedly mini, chatcatcher and disqus with friendfeed support pull relevant info on the web together. That's really needed.
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Feedly mini displays a small popup bar on the bottom of your screen when you're reading an article. It gives you the number of friendfeed mentions with the ability to jump to them, the number of diggs and a possibility to share it in google shared items. It's really amazing if you think about how it works.
- TobiasVerhoog.com
chatcatcher pulls tweets and friendfeed comments to your blog. This seems really useful. Haven't tried it yet though.
- TobiasVerhoog.com
Disqus just implemented support for friendfeed. It pulls friendfeed items to your blog and displays them there. Now only tweetbacks.
- TobiasVerhoog.com
I am glad feedly mini is providing value. More to come in the next three weeks.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
39325
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ha nice!
- Wesley Barrow
from '95
- Paul Buchheit
Summer intern?
- Mike Doeff
Yeah, Sanjeev was also there that same summer as it turns out.
- Paul Buchheit
Crazy.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
oooh look at how young and cute Paul is! :) very cool that you saved this! What was your job title then (intern for ______)? What location did you work at? Does that # mean you were the 39,325 employee hired by M$?
- Susan Beebe
I bet I could find mine if I tried, too.
- Gabe
I wish I still had my Apple badge. They made me give it back when I left.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Do I sense a meme coming?
- Chris Lamprecht
Yeah, unfortunately I don't seem to have any pics of my Sun badge, so I can't collect the whole set :(
- Paul Buchheit
bummer! collection is busted
- Susan Beebe
my work badges are boring white - no logo..nothing - designed for max security I guess
- Susan Beebe
Paul, did you work in Redmond?
- Gary Burd
Gary, Paul and I both worked in Redmond. Paul worked on Plus! Setup.
- Gabe
Oooh I remember Plus! that was really cool and made Win95 rock!
- Susan Beebe
Wow, I had no idea that you guys worked at Microsoft. Gabe, what did you work on?
- Gary Burd
Ex-PM in Developer Tools here. Visual J++ for the um, ...
- DeWitt Clinton
Maybe it would be more efficient for everyone who didn't work at Microsoft to raise their hand.
- DeWitt Clinton
How cute ;)
- Bindu Reddy
I worked on Win NT, debugging OLE. It was pretty bad because the NT OLE code was fine; all the bugs were in 16-bit OLE apps. There are few things worse than debugging interactions between two 16-bit apps you don't have the source to!
- Gabe
Wow, 16 bit OLE. Why didn't you force everyone to use 32bit Word and Excel? It would've been very Apple of you.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Yup, Redmond. I think I worked in building 4, which may not exist anymore, and lived across the street at "Timberlawn". I worked on the installer for "Plus Pack for Windows 95".
- Paul Buchheit
Eric, it gets worse: one of the first apps I had to look at was Ichitaro, Japan's #1 word processor at the time. It sure would have made things easier if I could have forced everybody to only use 32-bit English apps!
- Gabe
Awesome, Paul.
- Christopher Sacca
I tried, and I can't remember my ORCL employee number any more! Does that mean I've finally put it all out behind me?
- Tudor Bosman
My Intel WWID was 10599476, but I get the feeling that they added at least 10,000,000 to the employee number to generate that value.
- Paul Buchheit
I've already forgotten my Google employee number. I think my Yahoo! number was right around 9000...
- Kevin Fox
Ok here's a picture of my current ones I mentioned - sorta boring white plan ID badges http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Susan Beebe
haha, cool... And I didnt even know that I´m apparently the only person on friendfeed who hasn´t been a summer intern at Microsoft
- Peter Efland
At least they gave you a top-30 number at Google :)
- Charlie Anzman
Once again proving that you're "kind of a big deal". Nice badge!
- Randy Holloway
from twhirl
*swoon*
- Yuvi
I wonder if it was some kind of foresight to hang on to your old Microsoft badges, but not your diplomas.
- Clare Dibble
Nice, a blue badge. I consult for Microsoft and have an Orange badge.
- Alan Le
Wow! I was there that same summer interning for "Office Team Manager" I must have started a week or 2 before you as my employee number was 39207.
- Joe Beda ()
I think I returned my badge, so I can't remember what my employee number was. I worked on porting the standard ms installer from windows to the mac.
- Private Sanjeev
Sanjeev - a worthy cause for sure! :P
- Susan Beebe
It was a piece of code that Ben Slivka wrote to produce cab files :)
- Private Sanjeev
My MS ID was #38440 @ Microsoft... There were around 17k employees when I joined in 1995.
- Steve Lacey
You seem very happy in this picture. There's still so much hope and optimism in that face.
- April Buchheit
Old school.
- "Joey"
Congratulations, Paul & Jessica!! Welcome to the world, George!
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Born at 04:44 on Saturday, 1/24. 8lbs. 10oz.
- April Buchheit
That's a big baby!
- Paul Buchheit
Yeah! That's almost twice Thomas's birth weight and 7lbs. more than Camilla's.
- April Buchheit
Congrats!
- Daniel Ha
Congratulations, Jessica and Paul! Its a great, fun ride :)
- Toby DiPasquale
Yay! Congrats!
- Akshay Dodeja
Congratulations!
- Gabor Cselle
Congrats!!
- Ashwin Bharambe
Congrats!!
- Danish Khan
Congratulations!
- Paul Boehm
Congrats!
- Robby Walker
Happy New Year to my Chinese friends! - http://online.wsj.com/article...
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Hope this year is a better one than the last. Anyone in China do something fun for New Years?
- Robert Scoble
from Bookmarklet
The Vietnamese also have the same new year. :-)
- Daniel Ha
Happy New Years to Vietnam too!
- Robert Scoble
you are late ! it was yesterday ;-)
- Jacopo Gio
To whom it may concern: Happy New Year :-)
- Carlos Lorenzo
thanks ^^
- TuanAnhLaw
what year is it now?
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Thanks Robert- We've adopted three beautiful girls from China (9,6,3).
- Dana Fosburgh
Joelle- Most historians believe it to be Chinese year 4707
- Dana Fosburgh
FF2Disqus has re-emerged and is in private beta. Just leave a comment here if you'd like to participate. (*UPDATE:* please go to http://friendfeed.com/rooms... for more information)
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I'm interested in this service but it still won't work with Tumblr, correct?
- Boris Gordon
It works, provided you have Disqus enabled on your Tumblr blog and that the link in FF points that back to your Tumblr entry. Look at Fred Wilson's Tumblr entries on FF as an example: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Carter Rabasa
Well sign me up please! :)
- Boris Gordon
Done!
- Carter Rabasa
I see you are only syncing one way at the moment so comments made on tumblr items in friendfeed should show up on the disqus comments on the tumblr blog? Still not doing that for me at the moment though.
- Boris Gordon
please sign me up
- Fabio Giglietto
Done!
- Carter Rabasa
@cubanlinks I'd like an invite to FF2Disqus. Thanks ;-)
- Czar
Is the mulitple post item fixed? FF has been a mess because of this service.
- Admiral Anika
@Anika, the short answer is "I believe so". It was a caching issue outside of my control. The more important point is that comments are no longer pulled into FF. That "feature" just isn't worth the mess it makes, even without dupes.
- Carter Rabasa
I'm game for helping you test FF2Disqus.
- Joe Burnham
Okay, then sign me up!
- Admiral Anika
Sign me up.
- Håkan Dahlström
@Håkan @Anika @Joe @Czar Invited!
- Carter Rabasa
I'd like to sign in. Thank you.
- lelapin
@lelapin Invited!
- Carter Rabasa
I'd like to participate. Thanks!
- Erica Toelle
@Erica of course! invited.
- Carter Rabasa
I'd like to participate!
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
@Mark invited!
- Carter Rabasa
This is another welcome Disqus app, and I would like to try the private beta version. I already use Disqus to integrate Facebook Connect with my Blogspot blog (manofmanywords.blogspot.com) and this would be the perfect addition.
- Will Conley
@Will invited!
- Carter Rabasa
Please invite me :)
- GOTTi
@GOTTi all set
- Carter Rabasa
Please invite me too,thx
- Nicholas Paul Gordon
@Nicholas done
- Carter Rabasa
I'd like to participate!
- Jesse Stay
I was sure that it will survive Carter! :)
- directeur
Just read your email Carter, thanks for the link to the issue in GAE, I wasn't aware of it! Glad you're back even in private beta :)
- directeur
Sign me up, Carter.
- Bill Sodeman
@Jesse @Mohomed @Bill all set!
- Carter Rabasa
I would love try it out. Thanks.
- Ignacio Rodriguez de R,
@Ignace invite sent!
- Carter Rabasa
invite still possible? thanks
- mersenne
Hi, could I get an invite too?
- Rutger Blom
Invite please.. :)
- Thomas Bøhm
damn straight! very interested
- Noah David Simon
@mersenne @Rutger @Thomas @Noah Invited!
- Carter Rabasa
@Noah, check-out the FF room I invited you to. It'll have the link to the hosted application.
- Carter Rabasa
Carter, does it mean that what I set previously needs to be re-set? Can I get an invite? Thanks
- Flavio
@flapic, yeah I wiped all users due to the glitches the app was having. plus, I no longer need your FF remote key, so that was nice to erase (I hate storing credentials). anyway, you're invited!
- Carter Rabasa
@carter: tnx
- Flavio
Yes please! Gimme Gimme!
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
@Rah boom!
- Carter Rabasa
Please. :-)
- Chris Baskind
@Chris you got it
- Carter Rabasa
am interested. thanks
- Fatmanur Erdogan
@Fatmanur invited!
- Carter Rabasa
I'd like to participate.
- deden m. ihsan
@deden all set!
- Carter Rabasa
Man of Many Words suggests this is worth checking out. May I please :-)
- MaryAnn Chick Whiteside
@mcwflint the more the merrier!
- Carter Rabasa
Count me in, please. daniel@dmiessler.com @danielrm26
- Daniel Miessler
@Daniel, I've invited you to our FF room
- Carter Rabasa
I'm interested in trying this beta too.
- Rodrigo
I would like to participate.
- Alexander Kahn
@Rodrigo @Alexander You've been invited. Please read the room description and first few posts!
- Carter Rabasa
I would like an invite please :)
- Anne Haynes
@Anne done!
- Carter Rabasa
Hi, can I please get an invite.
- Dan Liebke
@Dan you got it!
- Carter Rabasa
I too would like to get on this service.
- Kurt von Schleicher
@kurt invited!
- Carter Rabasa
wait, why is it private beta now again, since it was open some days ago? pls let me in again to sync my friendfeed/disqus commets. may i have an invite pls?
- natadd
@natadd there were a few kinks that caused some issues. I wanted to make sure that a) I knew who was using the service b) people knew it was a beta and c) people had a place to leave comments and feedback. You've been invited!
- Carter Rabasa
thanks for the invite, but where/how should I get it? Email? twitter?
- natadd
I sent you an invite to a private FF room.
- Carter Rabasa
okay, thanks, but I didn't get an invite yet. how should i receive it? twitter? email?
- natadd
You should get an email. There should also be a link in the upper-left of FF that indicates that you have requests waiting for you. I'll try and invite you again.
- Carter Rabasa
I'd love to participate. Thanks for your work on this!
- Brent Evans
@Brent room invitation sent!
- Carter Rabasa
I'm interested
- Creeva Murkado
unfortunately I received the ff notice only, but nwo email invitation. can u pls send to lordnatadd@googlemail.com? thx!
- natadd
@creeva you've been invited!
- Carter Rabasa
Would love an invite. :)
- Chris Nixon
@Chris invited!
- Carter Rabasa
I would be interested in using Friendfeed to Disqus on http://kevintunis.com/
- Kevin Tunis
@Kevin, all set!
- Carter Rabasa
Would love an invite
- Iván Abrego
@Francisco invited!
- Carter Rabasa
I'd like to request for an invite. Tried it prior to the return to private-beta ^_^ Thanks!!
- JC John Sese Cuneta
@JC you've been invited!
- Carter Rabasa
Count me in, too :-)
- Miguel Caetano
@miguel you've been invited to the private beta room (please read the room description and first few posts). thanks!
- Carter Rabasa
I'd like to participate. In fact, my blog (Scribkin) is already registered.. I just wanted to change my sync settings?
- Phil G
@Phil invitation sent! updating your settings just requires you to re-submit the form and clobber the old settings.
- Carter Rabasa
Thanks!
- Phil G
Deal me in!
- Tom Guarriello
@Tom you're all set!
- Carter Rabasa
Hey Carter, i wouldnt mind trying this out. Thanks.
- Simon Wicks
@Simon you're invited!
- Carter Rabasa
Thanks very much :)
- Simon Wicks
Hey! I'd like to try it out, please. Great idea.
- Thomas Crampton
I would like to test this also :)
- Joe Dawson
Sign me up please, I'd like to try it :-)
- Jean-Charles
I never recieved my invite.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I'd love to give it a go!
- Jim Cahill
I would like to participate too:)
- Ben Borges
I would definitely love to participate, if there is still room
- Martha
interesting would love to try it
- BCK
I would like to try it too !
- Krishnakanth Chimalamarri
May i please have an invite?
- Web20Critic
I would love an invite please :)
- Daryl Milne
Hey Carter, would love to give it a try!
- xavier vespa
Genius idea, could you sign me up please? :)
- teleute
I'd like to be signed up!
- Craig Bellot
It doesn't work for me anymore, do I need to sign up again? If so please sign me up. It's really great.
- TobiasVerhoog.com
uh oh... I'm addicted and want more. no work no more
- Noah David Simon
Everyone, sorry I missed your requests. I was in Vegas this weekend. I have decided that FF2Disqus no longer needs to be in private beta! So, please check-out http://friendfeed.com/rooms... to learn more about it, or go straight to https://ff2disqus.appspot.com. Enjoy!
- Carter Rabasa
@Tobias. I don't see your information in my database. If you "turn-off" FF2D, it deletes your record, so maybe that's what happened? Anyway, feel free to sign-up again. @Noah, I just looked at your feed and it seems like comments are syncing fine. Any more information I can look at?
- Carter Rabasa
I'd like to have a play with this, it's something that's I've wanted for a while.
- Daniel W. Crompton
Daniel/everyone: If you'd like to try FF2Disqus check-out our FF room: http://friendfeed.com/rooms.... If you have any questions or comments, please post or comment in that room. Thanks!
- Carter Rabasa
I'm definitely interested in this integration. Please include.
- Kenley Neufeld
Derek Powazek - Things I Learned the Hard Way: Ignore the Content - http://powazek.com/posts/1646
Ian, Misha Dynin, jerobins and 10 other people liked this
"Apply this to web communities. Say a well-known site, say, redesigns their homepage. The new version could be better in every objective way, but users will still freak out. Why? It’s not the content - it’s something deeper. The freakouts mean, “I love this site, I feel ownership of it, and you changed it, and that makes me mad.” When you look at it that way, you can see why a reasonable, factual response on why the new design is better will not work. Instead, you have to address the feelings behind the complaint. For example: “You’re a valuable member, and we really appreciate how much time and energy you’ve put into the site. We know change can be hard, and we appreciate you writing to tell us your feelings. We think the new version is better, but you don’t have to agree. All we ask is that you give it a little time. See how you feel about it next week, and write us again. We’re grateful for your participation, and sincerely thank you for your feedback.”"
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
from comments: "Great post, thanks! I will keep it clutched in my hand for reference this year while our company redesigns our website “with the members’s needs in mind.” In my other hand, I’ll have Horton Hears a Who."
- בייַ מיר ביסטו שיין
Disqus Blog » DISQUS and Facebook Connect under the mistletoe - http://blog.disqus.net/2008...
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That's hot.
- Mike Lewis
Kinky.
- Mark Douglass
Waiting for Disqus+Google Friend Connect
- Igor Poltavskiy
Hacker News is starting to becoming a much-higher quality source of discussion than Reddit/Programming Reddit. I'm surprised.
Jonathan Tang, Maxwell Terry, Danielle Fong and 4 other people liked this
I'm not surprised. The people on reddit tend to be rather bitter and nasty (I'm not sure what they are clinging to though...).
- Paul Buchheit
I find HN to be one of the most thought-provoking discussions anywhere.
- Wesley Barrow
It is really remarkable; it's gone from great to mediocre and back five times now, to my memory. The community has longevity.
- Danielle Fong
What are the people on Reddit clinging to? I asked them: http://www.reddit.com/r...
- Kevin Fox
I see a lot of narrow widgets that look awful. Perhaps when it's this narrow, it should automatically use a smaller font size and wrap the text around the images (so the next line would start directly below the favicon instead below and to the right).
Joe Dawson, Jen (SquirrelGirl), Josh Jenkins and 35 other people liked this
AMEN to that!
- Susan Beebe
Definitely agreed
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
put the icon next to the time down and to the right - no one really cares what network its from anyway, right?
- Allen Stern
yes
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
Oops. This was intended for internal, but now you can all see my ff ui complaints :) (and I have many...)
- Paul Buchheit
hahaha!! keep up the great work Paul - much appreciated!! seriously!
- Susan Beebe
Or put it in a sidebar that's actually wide enough...photos must look horrible.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
yes the narrow widgets are a problem, it doesn't have that easy to read friendfeed look
- Kelly Johns
Yes that would be great. Its not fitting into my blogger side bar very well right now.
- Adam Thorsen
Unfortunately a lot of popular blog templates (such as the ones on blogger) simply don't have wide columns, and it's not easy to make them any wider without completely changing the look of the blog (in the case of blogger, the column sizes are baked into the graphics).
- Paul Buchheit
Yeah, it's hard to change sidebar sizes in Blogger, though not impossible with a bit of CSS and Photoshop manipulation. Self-hosted WordPress FTW. :)
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Agreed. That's why I don't have the FF widget on my blogs.
- Admiral Anika
Smaller font makes sense.
- Kol Tregaskes
Only a guess, but in CSS can't you use something like overflow:hidden for some lines and for images max-width:[~widthOfWidget]px ?
- Éric Senterre
…or even flow and wrap around the favicon as if it were a drop cap. Merely moving it up a line leaves it hard to distinguish at a glance whether it goes with the item above or below.
- John Lam
Matthew hates the fail whale!
Igor Poltavskiy, Lucretia Pruitt, Nicholas Kreidberg and 60 other people liked this
OH my god, the cuteness overwhelms me. And how's Sarah doing?
- Carla Thompson
Twitter should use this photo instead.
- l0ckergn0me
I almost look like that when I see the fail whale as well. :P
- James Mowery
awww
- Josh Haley
Carla, both are doing great. We're wrapping up a four day weekend at my parents, and on division of duty, both are at risk of the iPhone camera when I have them. And Chris, feel free to use the photo.
- Louis Gray
Oh, but I love it. lol Too cute!
- Daynah
Biz and Ev need to pay you to use that as their new Fail Whale
- Jesse Stay
caption that photo!
- .LAG liked that
Louis -- can we use Matthew's picture when socialmedian is down? serious
- Jason Goldberg
Great photo
- Bob Gannon
Jason - absolutely. :-)
- Louis Gray
So super ultra cute, Louis!
- Mona Nomura
Matthew appears to be doing his best Homer Simpson impression.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Jack - totally...."Food goes in here!"
- Slappy Line
Awwww!
- Ayşe E.
No soup for you
- RAPatton
Cuteness ends to the point when you hear small child screaming all of the nights during week full of work. But to be realistic, that's normal.
- Daniel Schildt
Early brand imprinting
Daniel Ha, Mike Fruchter, April Buchheit and 3 other people liked this
Matthew knows this brand. Do you?
- Louis Gray
from email
Camilla can recognize FriendFeed.
- April Buchheit
Of all my swag shirts that's my favorite one that I own. Jesse III likes my Seesmic shirt better though - he likes the little Seesmic animal (is it a Raccoon?)
- Jesse Stay
I'm getting inundated with email and snail mail from Obama about what I should do from home during the convention. Wondering if there's some way to tell them that I'm going to be there in the Pepsi Center, all four days. They must have some stuff for me to do there. My schedule is empty. Hmmm.
Ben Wern, Jason Goldberg and Daniel Ha liked this
Dave, should be easy enough. Contact the communications office at his HQ, provide a link to your blog with contact info.
- Dave Martin
I tried to sign up to help the campaign. They wanted me to fill out a whole damn job app AND write an essay. If it's that hard to help, I'm sure they have already found better candidates...LOL
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I know I woudln't pass... I scored really badly on the Obama Test - http://www.obamatest.com (humore impaired need not click)
- Soulhuntre
from twhirl
how to help the campaign: Vote for Obama. ;)
- Matt Shaulis
Antares the Siberian Tiger Cub [Cute Overload] - http://www.inquisitr.com/2351...
Corie, Andrew Trinh, Dan Liebke and 82 other people liked this
Want! At least, want until it's big enough to rip my arm off.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
YES PLEASE!
- Mona Nomura
Christian the Lion's cousin?
- Morgan
it's like an iPhone for animal lovers?
- Pascal
Mona, you think he is cute now? Wait till he grows up! He will have you for breakfast! LMAO
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Awww. Too cute.
- Roberto Bonini
cuteeeeeeeeeeeeeee
- saeedeh
Look at that there... THAT is a prince. Wow. The great cats have SO much poise! They LOOK like the kings of the jungle.
- Parth Awasthi
Once over the cute overdose, I must say, I understand how animals this powerful need to be this adorable when they are young. It's the only way to survive. What a gorgeous picture.
- Juan Carlo Rodríguez
Super cute! :D
- BeeLing
These two are gorgeous!! Reminds of that film "Two Brothers" (at least I think that was the name) :)
- Melanie Reed
Ooops! I now see that it is just 2 shots of one cub...still cuteness. ;)
- Melanie Reed
Karen brought me to Gary Danko for my birthday tonight
Sheila Taylor, Business Blogger【ツ】™, Josh Jenkins and 26 other people liked this
Belated Happy Birthday :-)
- AJ Batac
Yummmmm!
- Mo Kargas
Happy Bday Bret and dayam...good taste Karen
- Jini
Very cool. Will you be posting more pictures? We've had several great meals there.
- Derek
That's where we went to celebrate my birthday, too.
- April Buchheit
That's been the anniversary dinner place for my wife and me the last few years.
- Hutch Carpenter
Happy birthday Bret!
- Mitchell Tsai
My favorite restaurant!!! Love it.
- Clay B.
Happy Bday on your real bday
- Bindu Reddy
Happy B'dau Dude.. dont be coding 2nite !!
- Peter Dawson
Happy bidet Bret
- Daniel Dulitz
Happy birthday!!!!!
- niniane
did you have the chocolate suffle? Once you have it at Danko, nowhere else is good enough.
- David Jeske
@David: yes, that is my favorite as well, and it was amazing.
- Bret Taylor
I'm jealous :)
- Sheila Taylor
I'm going this Sunday night! :)
- Mike Cassidy
Unablogger
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Sent from iPhone 3G
- MG Siegler
from email
i immediately regretted this picture
- Eric Eldon
eric eldon writing up this scoop http://venturebeat.com/2008...
- MG Siegler
That will definitely show up on Valleywag at some point -- completely out of context, of course.
- Nathaniel Payne
@nathaniel - yes, it immediately brings to mind john battelle
- MG Siegler
this photo requires a caption contest - best caption gets a cn sticker
- Allen Stern
"MG, I told you, Podtech was acquired for less than ONE million dollars"
- Allen Stern
Allen: Does it get much better than Uniblogger?
- Dan Kaplan
Greatest photo title ever
- Mike Doeff
"In a story that can only happen in the valley, apparently a wandering hobo broke the news today that PodTech had been acquired by ViewPartners."
- Nathaniel Payne
Uniblogger. Pure genius.
- Daniel Ha
somehow, i'm still regretting this picture 15 minutes later. oh well. pretty hilarious, anyway.
- Eric Eldon
our team is now dean "the machine", MG "machine gun" and eric "uniblogger" - we're quite violent
- MG Siegler
Eric, if the shoe (bomb) fits, then...
- Elliott Ng
MG is that how you get your scoops? bring in the big guns?
- Allen Stern
@allen - pretty much. we live in violent times...
- MG Siegler
Ah, there's the Eric I remember from college.
- Anthony Ha
Ladies and gentleman, this is how the news gets made.
- Gabe Rivera
Writing Once, Publishing Many Times, Makes Context Critical - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
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