I also love already being logged in when I visit a blog using Disqus, and being able to track my comments on various blogs, including my own, from a single location.

Lastly, the Disqus.com homepage, which features popular threads, is a great place to “get into the conversation”.

Congratulations to Disqus and their new investors!

Not dedicated URL for this, you’ll need to access the site on the iPhone to see it in action.

I implemented a number scoring review and user comments rating system in about 15 minutes using freely available WP plugins, see it in action at Jakarta Bar.com

Would concede that its not as sexy but it does its job, was relatively easy for a novice Wordpress user to implement, and certainly did not need millions of dollars of funding for the plugin writers to develop.

Jamie

@Jonathan & @yongfook > I’m in the same boat as you. js-kit.com has kind of figured this out by making a rss feed of comments available that can be spidered as if it’s your site.

@ Jonathan > For me the big value add IS the fact that it’s 3rd party. It means I never have to upgrade my blog software, and they do all the hard work. This week was a great example – they rolled out a bunch of new features and it was all just magically available one day. A far cry from when I used to use Wordpress (or other blogging engine) and taking advantage of any new features would mean having to download the new version of the app, uploading files and most likely troubleshooting my way through some tedious upgrade process.

The other killer feature for me – and I’m sure there are many users on Techcrunch for whom this is a potential life-changer – is that when I get an email notification of a new comment on my blog, I can reply to the comment simply by replying to the email, and it gets magically posted to my blog. I laugh at the old way this used to get done – you’d click a link, go to your blog page, fill in a form; seems so archaic now. This convenience alone, especially if you run a blog with high comment traffic or a high level of need for replies (e.g. you write software and support it via your blog), makes Disqus an awesome addition to your blog and will save you heaps of time.

Well done Daniel and Disqus!

Robert Scoble has an interesting post. He muses about the difficulty one entrepreneur has getting funded versus another.  Andrew Mobbs has a dream of using cell phones to replace credit cards.  It’s an interesting idea.  The trouble he has is …

Anyway, it may just be a simple ‘ID10T’ error on my part. Let’ see what these services do for my blogging experience.

Raza Imam
http://SoftwareSweatshop.com

Good point…which is why we only work on public sites and make our SezWho profiles completely customizable by the users.

Thanks, Jitendra

However, there’s a negative in Discus and some other commenting services to blog owners in that your comments are hosted on another site and displayed by an iFrame or injected via JS after page load. If you look at the source HTML of a blog permalink page, you don’t see the comments. For sites with any real comment activity, those comments are fertile ground for search engine bots. Taking out the comments can only hurt your page rank.

As a user, I’m not so sure that I want a third-party site tracking my comments across numerous sites. It doesn’t really add any value from my perspective. It’s invasive, giving other ppl too much private info about my activity online.