Comments on: JS-Kit: a hosted commenting system

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:24:02 +0000

Thanks for the pointer.

I'd seen SezWho in my initial search for a centralized comments service.
While I agree with you that hosting comments externally does forfeit
some features locally, it is my goal to find similar, if not better,
features in the hosted service I use. I'm not just looking to have the
comments connected, grouped, rated, or shown with reputation. I want to
eliminate user logins and provide commenters with a consistent interface
that they'll understand and be familiar with. Additionally, SezWho
requires that I have a working comments system already. While that is
the case on this blog, that is NOT the case in all of the places I
intend to use centralized comments.

Thank you for your time. I'm sure SezWho is a good fit for someone. Just
not me.

By: Jim Reverend

Jim Reverend — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:24:02 +0000

By: Jitendra

Jitendra — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:53:28 +0000

Revjim, take a look at SezWho as well…We provide the value in terms of connecting the conversations across sites without really taking over the whole comment system … So you don't lose critical functionality like Trackbacks and other widgets like top commenters, recent comments etc. Also with the content on your site, you keep the page rank juice and page views on your sites as well.

By: Jim Reverend

Jim Reverend — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:25:02 +0000

I look forward to your upcoming OpenID Profile. If you include an XML
based comment importer as well well with well defined format, I may
even switch over when the time comes. I was quite impressed with your
service offering for content authors. I just wanted a little more in
terms of what my READERS will get from it.

By: eblantz

eblantz — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:22:21 +0000

Thanks for post, Revjim, especially for your constructive criticisms. We take these to heart. Just a quick followup: JS-Kit has absolutely NOT abandoned the goal of building "community or social" services. We have chosen to focus initially on building scale and on expanding our suite of content-generating services in the belief that "social" features are most valuable when they are broadly inclusive. You rightly point out that our dashboard is not designed to help users manage their comments across sites. That will be handled by our forthcoming, OpenID-based) user profile. Stay tuned, and thanks again for the review.

Cheers,
Eric
JS-Kit