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9/21/2006

Feed Readers Are Here, Can We Have Comments Writers Now? »

Reading some posts at the improved Rojo, I promise to write about it this week, I was thinking: “boy, how nice being able to read my favorite pieces of content from just one simple interface.”

Then the what if appeared. What if we could have the ability to comment in every blog or website without visiting it? Imagine a universal method for comments. Something like RSS is becoming for easily reading your favorite sites.

I resisted the temptation to google this before posting, maybe there’s somebody already working in some kind of reverse-syndication system and I’m just another silly guy with a dumb idea. It doesn’t matter, there are millions of us already.

Ideally feed reader and comment writer should work under the same user interface. Going one step forward we could ask for having our content management systems or blog tools integrated with these features. Imagine writing your content, reading feeds and posting comments from one single location.

In fact, we already have the writing and commenting part, we call it a trackback.

There is, of course, the big problem of spammers using a commenting tool like this, but I think captcha-like or validation features would help.

We already have the technologies for such a platform, would it work? What ya think?

En: Technology Web | Por: Alexis | @ 4:23 pm

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  1. Part of the functionality you’re describing is already present in CoComment .

    Try it out, I’m loving it to manage my blog-comments.

    Comment by Bart — 9/22/2006 @ 1:04 am

  2. Great, thanks Bart!

    Looks like what I was talking about, I’m registering right now.

    I don’t see my favorite CMS, Drupal, listed yet, but will play a little with the API and see what I can do.

    Cheers!

    Comment by Alexis Bellido — 9/22/2006 @ 8:11 am

  3. That was it. CoComment works quite nice.

    I found a Drupal module for it and it’s already working with mumobo and Telework People.

    Comment by Alexis Bellido — 9/22/2006 @ 11:07 am

  4. There is always the possibility of spam abuse, but we should let not get in the way of progress!

    Comment by Pablo at ipod accessories — 11/14/2007 @ 5:55 am

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