Automattic, the company behind wordpress acquired IntenseDebate, one of the comment enhancement systems. IntenseDebate launched last year with features like ratings, comment threading, OpenID support etc. IntenseDebate provides community features likevoting, reputation, profiles, reply by email among others.
Automattic says that InteseDebate will stay as an independent service, much like Akismet Automattic’s other product. In [...]

Backtype is a new service that helps you to find, follow and share comments. it aggregates comments from the blogosphere at one place, you can search comments and people.
When you post comments on various sites using your Blog URL and your name, they will be aggregated here at one place. Each commentator will get [...]

There is a blog storm happening around a “Social RSS Reader” called Shyftr. What Shyftr does is takes RSS Feeds and publishes on its own site, of course these articles have comments, and a community around it, which they call as Social Network for RSS Feeds. The idea is interesting, but Shyftr is doing this [...]

Today Techcrunch posted (here and here) launch of two startups aiming to make blog commenting better. These are Disqus and Intensedebate, both of these do the same or almost the similar thing. They add a comment thread at the end of a blog post just like a blog comment form but with options like rating, [...]

Fav.or.it is the new entrant in to the feed reader space. Fav.or.it is trying to do something others have not done so far, it aims to integrate commenting in the feed reader itself. That means you dont have to leave your feed reader for commenting on the story you read.
Fav.or.it is still in beta [...]