JS-Kit’s ECHO commenting system definitely looks like it’s going to “change the conversation,” or at least change the way we engage with comments as we understand it today.
Essentially, the entire comment stream will be populated by not only direct comments but also the conversations that are swirling around the web related to that particular post. As TechCrunchIT states:
For example, say users are talking about this article on Twitter. All of those tweets (that have the URL to this story attached), will be pulled into the commenting area. Same with Facebook, and Google, and Yahoo, and FriendFeed, and Digg, among others. And all of this will be populated in real-time.
Very neat. Obviously there’s going to have to be some work in terms of “signal vs. noise” management, but I think it should be worked out just fine, and with multiple login opportunities (see below) it’s adoption will be stellar:
I’ve asked for my BETA invite… I’d suggest you do the same.
on my way there right now!
that's cool. but will "RT: @human3rror new post: JS-kit etc etc.com" now be filling our comment sections?
yes, that's the problem of all that junk… apparently they're cooking up ways to manage that.
done…I thought it would be hard to let go of ID…but we can test it and see
This does look pretty cool. I got a lot of traffic to my blog in the last couple weeks from members of my congregation who didn't want to sign up for ID. But they all have facebook. I'm excited about this! But will be sad to leave ID… I'm at something like 75p right now…
RSVP'd … does it "sync" like IntenseDebate is supposed to? (we never could get ID to sync properly w/ our servers, they finally gave up – no clue why, neither ID nor 3 of my linux admins, scouring over log files, could figure it out)
John,
I really wish you'd some coming up with all this cool stuff. It really makes it difficult for me to emulate your success!
This is a great idea – let's see if IntenseDebate and Disqus step up and try to add similar functions
This could be really great when they figure out how to filter out all of the potential noise.
Will this open up new ways to spread comment spam?
This could be really great when they figure out how to filter out all of the potential noise.
I wonder if this will open up new ways to spread comment spam.