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Re: Fav.or.it: RSS Reader with Integrated Commenting Launches Public Beta

nickhalstead — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:40:36 -0000

FSWeb,

wordpress + blogger = 50 million blogs, we will also be announcing in a weeks time the full list of commenting companies that support us, we already have 80% of the market confirmed.

Some of the bigger blogs have custom solutions and long term will work with them, but for the moment it is more important to support a larger %.

Also, just so you know we do not 'screenscrape' we use available Public API's + private ones under aggreement to make this all possible.

Re: Fav.or.it: RSS Reader with Integrated Commenting Launches Public Beta

FSWebDevelopment — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:02:01 -0000

Oh. i just found the answer. it's just wordpress and blogger blogs...that's kinda wack. They're gonna have to do better than that.

Re: Fav.or.it: RSS Reader with Integrated Commenting Launches Public Beta

FSWebDevelopment — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:59:51 -0000

I haven't gotten my invite yet, but I've been thinking about the comments from the feed-reader thing. They'd have to have done all the work CoComment has done by building relationships with most of the top blogs, and getting them to sync their blogs with the CoComment system.

I doubt Fav.or.it has done thins yet (at least with enough blogs), and I doubt they are screen-scraping a million blogs for people to put their comments in.

I'm interested to see how they get comments from their feed-reader tool to the blogs themselves.

Anyone know?

James
from
FaceySpacey.com, Your One Stop Social Media Shop

Re: Fav.or.it: RSS Reader with Integrated Commenting Launches Public Beta

Palin Ningthoujam — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:33:18 -0000

We also need a service that will enable sending comments from an email. why is this required? I learnt that many of my time-pressed readers on email subscription would read the blog updates on the email and hardly visit the site. So if they can quickly do a reply to the emails and that come as a comment on the blog, it'd be wonderful. Any such service already?

Re: Fav.or.it: RSS Reader with Integrated Commenting Launches Public Beta

Daryl Tay — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:47:15 -0000

I hope it's going to be open! I just clicked on it but found out you can't get access to the beta instantly. In any case, eagerly waiting to get onto this too. Picked it up for my blog too.

Re: Fav.or.it: RSS Reader with Integrated Commenting Launches Public Beta

Adam Ostrow — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:50:55 -0000

Stay tuned for some invites later tonight hopefully. Yea, I wonder what the reaction from bloggers will be if fav.or.it takes off. It definitely means less traffic to the site. On the other hand, it could be a boom for RSS advertising, which is pretty mediocre thus far.

Re: Fav.or.it: RSS Reader with Integrated Commenting Launches Public Beta

FSWebDevelopment — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:39:45 -0000

Wow. I'm lovin this (however, Adam, Mashable shouldn't--you're going to lose ad revenue)!!!! ...Can I get an INVITE too?

ALso, if anyone wants my Killer OPML file that stores all my Web "2.87" google reader feeds categorized nicely, here it is:

http://www.faceyspacey.com/...

James
from
FaceySpacey.com, Your One Stop Social Media Shop

Re: Fav.or.it: RSS Reader with Integrated Commenting Launches Public Beta

Trond Kjetil — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:08:17 -0000

Is there a poosibility that I could recieve an invite to this? Looks pretty awesome, I have in fact greatly missed the ability to post comments though my RSS-reader (using Google's atm). Googles sharing system never did it for me either, maybe this one does?

Re: Fav.or.it: RSS Reader with Integrated Commenting Launches Public Beta

George — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:58:34 -0000

To me the most interesting feature of fav.or.it is the meta-data tracking to determine user interest in a story and rank it accordingly. I read about it in TechCrunch Oct 07, when the service was not in public beta:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2...

Thats brilliant IMHO, and seems quite unique and patentable. Hopefully Google and friends won't steal the idea too quickly and give this new service a chance. I've been wanting to test this out since reading about it, so I'm happy to see at least a (semi) public beta.

Re: Fav.or.it: RSS Reader with Integrated Commenting Launches Public Beta

nickhalstead — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:17:37 -0000

Your right, it is confusing to use the term 'public' - I have adjusted my post - apologies for confusion. I think of it as public because the frontend is public - and the portal part of the site (not yet launched) will be public even when the rest of the site is still in closed beta.

confused? I am. anyway it is a closed beta with an invite system so each user can hand out invites to new users. We won't be doing this until we run out of pre-registrations of which as Adam pointed out we have thousands.

Re: Fav.or.it: RSS Reader with Integrated Commenting Launches Public Beta

Adam Ostrow — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:51:18 -0000

Yea, "public beta" was their terminology, not mine. Basically they invited the 10,000 or so people that signed up to be in the beta today.

Re: Fav.or.it: RSS Reader with Integrated Commenting Launches Public Beta

Dechen — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:49:02 -0000

This sounds like a great alternative to Google Reader, which I do use everyday since I was introduced to it. I agree with Andrew, that it isn't much of a public beta if it is available to a closed group.

Re: Fav.or.it: RSS Reader with Integrated Commenting Launches Public Beta

Andrew — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:20:28 -0000

Seems like this is a closed beta. Not really what I would call public. I'm part of the "public" and can't use it.

Re: Fav.or.it: RSS Reader with Integrated Commenting Launches Public Beta

nickhalstead — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:55:18 -0000

Thanks for that Adam,

A few things I would add,

Scoble has even more reason to move over to Fav.or.it, (and he has already talked about it a lot) - because our system for sharing content is so much more powerful, you can create separate 'libraries' and drop posts into them, plus you can hand them out to friends and let them add to the mas well! we call it 'collaborative sharing'

Google will never be able to convert their infrastructure to do what we do, ours was built from the ground up to read 'slices' so you can mash content together based upon tags/categories - google reader works completely differently. They make another product that does something similar long term, or buy us ;)