London based uberVU is about to launch a discussion-tracking product that will aggregate comments, Twitters, FriendFeed comments, trackbacks and other information about any URL (like a blog post) on the Internet.
There’s real demand for this. Any given blog post, for example, may have lots of comments and trackbacks (links from other blogs discussing the post). But the conversation can soon splinter off as side discussions spring up on Twitter, FriendFeed, or other blogs. uberVU aggregates all that discussion (even trackbacks on trackbacks, for example), and presents it via a threaded interface both on its site and via an API. The company is also creating plugins for various blogging platforms, allowing users to easily pull the conversation back to the original posts.
This is an area that startups have experimented with for years, either aggregating by user or by URL. CoComment was an early attempt at aggregating unique user comments across sites (Disqus, SezWho, JS-Kit, Intense Debate and BackType are more recent examples). Less has been done on aggregating discussions around a specific story or URL, but FriendFeed’s API allows publishers to pull in specific FriendFeed comments on a story, and Quotably has tried to aggregate Twitter discussions (it is now deadpooled).
uberVU is distinctly different from anything that’s come before, however, and may go a long way towards organizing the discussion mess we’re in now. It’s in private beta now, but you can sign up on their home page to get an invitation.
UberVu is a Seedcamp startup.
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You mean UberVu not backtype
yep.
You need to take a look at Artiklz, which already is doing all that (and a lot more!) and it’s already publicly available. BTW, isn’t uberVu based in Romania?
Disclosure: I’m a principal at Artiklz.
i’ll find that if you’ll provide a link
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interview with Jim Cramer:
http://www.artikel32.com/kunst/kunst-14.php
uberVU has Romanian founders and team but they incorporated the company in London, UK. Business decision.
make it stop. this is a feature not a company. aggregating friend feed?? the market will shake-out to a manageable number of commenting tools with traction, there is no need for a meta-aggregator like this.
I agree. I don’t think a site like this should have made it to Techcrunch post. I’m tired seeing sites just leveraging other sites without doing something of patent quality.
I`ve never really understood how all of these work. I always see these link back and track back tags but half of them lead me astray. Hopefully Ubervu (what kind of name is that, anyway) can fix this problem. Michael is right, there is a really big need for this
It comes from “”uber (german “above” and used in english sometimes too) and “view” (vu).
I think it’s a clean nad easy to remember name…how about Zooomr?? And other names like these??
All i’m gonna say change your name,it’s the worst domain ever for a startup although you might of been short of cash to by a real good one i’m sure there were better domains available for reg fee $7……….Sigh
I’m uber excited!
Wait til you see my content aggregator-aggregator search engine! It has RSS feeds! It lets you search Tweets about FriendFeed conversations about TechCrunch blog comments about TechCrunch posts about Twitter outages!
good idea but a horrible name…
I guess there are many much more horrible names…and you should know that good names are already taken.
when do we get the company to clean up ubervu
“There’s real demand for this.”… in the geek circles.
When I think of ‘real demand,’ this is hardly what comes to mind. Try again.
Yes, Ghunda, in the geek circles - but I think you should realise by now, and as much as I hate to admit it, geeks and techies now officially run the world. I bet you’re on facebook - have you ever seen the founder? He is a geek. But also a quadrillionaire
Rich on paper or real assets? I’m curious.
Needs to lump in Facebook comments… that is a big time splinter for my tweets.
We have been waiting for this and finally it’s here. I’m getting so excited for the launch and already signed up to be an early user.
Bobroth is right, the Facebook comments are such a time suck but, would Facebook agree?
I remember how Facebook used to work with Friend Feed and then one day the functionality was removed. Now, you can only import your content to Facebook, but Facebook will not allow FriendFeed to publish your activity on your feed. If this is their approach with FriendFeed, what makes anyone think that Facebook would want to work with UberVu?
Love the name, Ubervu, btw.
We already talked to Facebook about that. And they haven’t even considered the idea of letting go of comments. But let’s hope they will make them available asap. They have a very strict privacy policy but we are dealing with public data so they should be ok with it as long as their users agree.
Regarding the name: people either love it or hate it. And that’s a good thing.
I like things to stay messy though! Hahhah!
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Got to know the uberVU guys during our week at Seedcamp and they have consistently proven their ability to move forwards and keep development strong. Smart techies really should be the core of any tech company… Looking forwards to the launch!
Another new service of comment aggregation we have launched last week is commentino.com. We are using a unique client we have developed that adds the following features:
-publish happens immediately, within one second.
-comments are “signed”. no one can claim they are you.
-works on any web site, even it does not have a commenting system
-you can add tags to your comments
-you can be selective - share some of your comments and don’t share other, or use more than one profile.
I think that the variety of services in this space gives the user more choice on his comment aggregation solution.
my comments at http://www.commentino.com/orim
Great to see UberVU getting some well deserved attention. Met them at Seedcamp. Cool guys from Romania living in London, very determined to do whatever needs doing to make it a success.
Been testing the product for some time now. It really does solve a problem for PR & marketing guys & geeks obsessed with the question of where their writings pop-up or echo on the web.
Still some rough edges, but nothing that couldn’t be sorted out.
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You nailed it completely. This will be a huge player in the business world so that marketers can keep track of conversations taking place across the web. When a business sees they have no comments on their blog but then finds out there are 15 on Twitter and 35 on FriendFeed, that is precious information.
I’ll be interested to see how this shakes out and works into the various blogging platforms. I don’t necessarily care about everything aggregating on their (uberVu) website, but I do think that content needs to make it back to the original source.
UBERVU is Bucharest (Romania) based, not London based. I suppose that was shameful for them to admit they are Romanians.
Not true. We told Michael we are from Romania but because we have a UK company he probably thought it is better to say UK. Nothing to be ashamed of…
why would it be shameful?
Vladimir Oane, the founder, is Romanian citizen currently living in London afaik. Indeed he developed uberVU with a Romanian team as he owns a small webshop down there (Metromind).
There’s nothing to be ashamed of
coComment does not only aggregate user comments: you can also track a conversation based on it’s URL, and soon also track related conversations from FriendFeed, Digg, ……
For sure, being able to aggregate the conversations from FaceBook would be great. But this is definitely not an open platform and user content is kept in hostage there
True. TechCrunch is presenting a closed-beta company as the innovator and leader in this space, when others have been openly offering this for quite some time already.
Great product! Good luck Vladimir. Bafta si noroc.
It’s great to hear news on UberVU. I can’t wait to get my hands on a commercial license or something. Marketers will love this tool.
Wow, congrats Vladimir & Co for the TechCrunch featuring. I’m really glad for you guys and can’t wait to see it happening.
Thumbs up!
Congratulations, uberVU team! Finally, you’ve made it here ;)…it’s well deserved!
Congratulations… Great product from Romania !
I know these guys (2 of them at least
and they’re amazing. I can’t wait to see their product to be fully developed and kickin’ it!
Greate idea, let’s see how they will market themselves!