Matt Mullenweg Believes In Power Of Comments And Discussions In Blogging

The kid who own WordPress, created Anti-Spam comment Plugin Akismat, bbPress and Gravatar, founder of Automattic recently acquired two potential ventures Polldaddy and IntenseDebate

IntenseDebate is a comment system that enhances and encourages discussion on your blog or website. That means matt is taking these commenting and discussion thing much seriously.  I guess he will incorporate features on IntenseDebate in next update on WordPress.

In my previous post I detailed about BackType. But IntenseDebate seems to me the bigger venture as now its get support from Automattic. If you are wondering What IntenseDebate does then see check out these cool features IntenseDebate performs.

1. Comment Threading
2. Reply-By-Email
3. Importing/Exporting
4. Commenter Profiles
5. Reputation Points & Comment Voting
6. Moderation/Blacklisting
7. Widgets -You can display your blog’s comment stats, the most recent comments made on your blog, your most popular posts on your blog, the most recent comments
8. RSS Readers & Tracking
9. Twitter -When you post a comment with IntenseDebate you have the option to send a Tweet on a post-by-post basis letting your followers know you commented on a post. It’s a great way to share posts
10. FriendFeed -when comments are made in the context of your blog on FriendFeed, IntenseDebate will republish them back on your blog! All you need to do is enter in your FriendFeed URL and select the option in your IntenseDebate profile
11. OpenID
12. Gravatar
13. HTML Formatting

At present IntenseDebate is not ready for full fledge operation. Soon it will be up for powering your commenting and discussion habits.

Share in comment below how you find this service.

6 Responses to “Matt Mullenweg Believes In Power Of Comments And Discussions In Blogging”

1. Bruno Auger says:

   November 5, 2008 at 3:46 pm

   Shanker
   Where do you find these things? I must admit Backtype and IntenseDebate look like pretty cool things. I have yet to explore them fully but will in the coming days

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2. Michael Aulia says:

   November 6, 2008 at 1:28 am

   Wow that looks cool.. a way to reward your loyal readers on the blog (with the ratings and stuffs)

   WordPress 2.7 will have a threaded comment (I already have it on my blog now with WordPress 2.7 Beta 1), but the other features look neat too

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3. Shanker Bakshi says:

   November 6, 2008 at 3:08 pm

   Yes Michael – Matt will definitely do something about the present commenting system and discussion mode.

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4. ZK@Intrenet Marketing Blog says:

   November 6, 2008 at 4:20 pm

   a perfect web 2.0 solution for blogs

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5. Dennis Edell says:

   November 6, 2008 at 10:16 pm

   As long as it don’t screw up my commentluv plugin! LOL

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6. Chetan says:

   November 22, 2008 at 7:23 pm

   I think they should think over default NOFOLLOW comment funda in WP.

   Reply