Fav.or.it, the RSS reader with integrated commenting (a story TechCrunch UK broke), has launched its beta, though you’ll still need an invite to get in while they scale up.
With Fav.or.it you can make comments on blog posts from within its reader - no need to click into a browser to the original post. Disqus, the distributed commenting system, will be using the fav.or.it API. So if you use Disqus for comments, fav.or.it users will be able to leave comments too. Fav.or.it is more feature rich than Google Reader and has community features like story voting, sharing, tagging. The site already has lots of feeds to pick from and an approach called slices. Some developers are already building features on top of Google Reader’s shared items data, such as ReadBurner and RSSMeme. But fav.or.it is as early as any of those guys, so it’s still a wide open game.
I created a Firefox extension that integrates similar functionality into Google Reader using the comment system through IntenseDebate. It doesn’t add the comments through to the main article, but rather to the community using the extension.
I have used the above mentioned firefox extension to enable comments in Google Reader using Intense Debate and I have to say it is bad ass!
If anyone wants a Killer OPML file that stores all my Web “2.87″ google reader feeds categorized nicely for use in Fav.or.it, here it is:
http://www.faceyspacey.com/Fac.....orized.zip
James
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FaceySpacey.com, Your One Stop Social Media Shop
Adding comments within the reader is pretty cool. Our reader also allows members to do this and much more.
I think its great that a company is trying to give google some competetion
Our Ticker also allows for commenting of RSS Articles within the article, no need to click to a browser or anythign else.
see http://www.easybyte.com/products/ticker.html for more info.
I am not sure why this was a news story on Techcrunch even?
Does fav.or.it pay Techcrunch for putting up non-stories about it
for advertising?
mike j,
Have you tried our service? No. Do you have the worlds only integrated commenting platform, No. We support via a wide range of protocols both open and under license to be able to send comments back to the original blog, you do not do the same.
Was this a poor attempt for your $49 a time shareware product to get some cheap publicity? Yes.
Wow - thanks for the marketing spiel, Nick. Glad to see favorit’s marketing people are such assholes.
As for fav.or.it - I’m not really a fan. When you post a comment through it on a blog, it puts a plug for its own service at the bottom. That’s pretty stupid. And, from what I see on the website (i’m not a member), it’s got nothing on the awesome interface of Netvibes.
or Alertle http://www.alertle.com (I’m biased ;))
I think the primary reason why anyone would use a RSS reader is to not comment on articles, but to… read feeds
The core RSS feed reading interface matters first and foremost (i.e. - the layout of feeds, headlines..). The other features like sharing, tagging, commenting, etc are just add-ons to that experience.