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Re: My Comments Wordpress Plugin

james34 — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:40:31 -0000

thanks, good post

Re: My Comments Wordpress Plugin

Polarized Sunglasses — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:37:56 -0000

I'm using wordpress. Well I haven't using it since after newyear because of being busy and now I've found a lot of nice programs in the net that makes me leave wordpress.

Re: My Comments Wordpress Plugin

Web Laureate — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:54:21 -0000

finally, something that will help me keep track of all my chitting and chatting around the web -- http://web-poet.com/2009/02...

Re: My Comments Wordpress Plugin

Christopher Golda — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:46:34 -0000

Thanks, Chirag.

It's unfortunate for WP.com users, but we'll look into offering something soon.

Re: My Comments Wordpress Plugin

Chirag Chamoli — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:51:55 -0000

Hey Guys, I have already mailed Christopher. Please make this work for Wordpress.com also. In meanwhile here is a shity implementation of the same widget. On wordpress.com add a RSS Widget and give the feed address as http://feeds.backtype.com/U... . This looks really bad but now at least you have something.

Re: My Comments Wordpress Plugin

Bryan Landers — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 15:50:10 -0000

In this instance, think of tags simply as preset search terms that guarantee the user results since they are dynamically created based on that exact author's comments (5-10 most used words, for example). At a glance you can get an idea of relevant topics to this author without having to generate your own search term. How they are displayed is an independent design concern.

Re: My Comments Wordpress Plugin

Taylor Davidson — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 03:30:49 -0000

I don't completely understand Bryan's love for tags; maybe it is the designer in him.

But search I get. Structuring data for analysis is more powerful than structuring data merely for display.

Re: My Comments Wordpress Plugin

Christopher Golda — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:31:00 -0000

Tags and search are both interesting; I think you'll find that we'll play a more active role in the latter :)

Comment card, community card -- lots possible

Thanks for the comment

Re: My Comments Wordpress Plugin

Bryan Landers — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:38:06 -0000

I like the WP widget. It certainly covers getting the bulk of your comments in there. Where I see room for creative improvement: making it feel engaging and easy to interact with (and even designy).

For this I think BackType should offer trends for each user (guessing this could be implemented based on the site-wide trends functionality). These would be the most common words in the author's comments presented as tags (could be a common tag cloud with varying sizes).

Additionally, a search field would be excellent as the user could simply enter topics that interest them and see if they are mentioned in the author's comments. Auto-generated tags = passive, search field = active.

With the addition of those 2 features, you'd only need to display 1-3 recent comments, since people's attention will probably not stretch beyond that. For design, you could use the author's profile picture...imagine a comment card. Collectible, sharable, identity trading cards!

Re: My Comments Wordpress Plugin

Taylor Davidson — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:46:57 -0000

Mike & Chris: Displaying (promoting) comments that we leave around the web (and remember, commenting is a form of blogging) is indeed something we have been talking about for a while (with Bryan Landers).

The flexibility of the plugin is awesome: now what do we do with it :)

(again, highlighting one of the benefits of offering API access to the data and allowing developers to find a range of ways to use it...)