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Should You Allow Commenting on Your Blog?
The Guardian recently found that of the 70 million comments left on its site since 2006, it blocked only 2 percent and deleted another 2 percent as spam or because they replied to blocked comments.
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Google Encrypts All Searches, Rolls Out Google+ Comments for YouTube
Google has been busy rolling out some controversial changes recently. Its encryption of search keywords will rankle with SEO and marketing types, but the addition of Google+ comments to its YouTube video service should rile hotheads, while cleaning out a lot of the cruft.
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Livefyre Adds Social Media to Web Commenting System
After Facebook waded into the comments space, is there still room for others to grow? Looks like it, as Livefyre bags US$ 4.5 million in new funding and launches version 2.0 of its engagement-encouraging comments system.
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Twitter Tweaks Third-Party Permissions, Adds More User Control
Twitter (news, site) has revised the way in which other sites and apps can take control of your information. Twitter Does Better Permission Slips Are you getting a bit concerned that almost every site, comment system, app and social media network wants access to your Twitter details?
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Echo Challenges Facebook for Your Comments
When you are as big as Facebook, competition appears at every turn -- just ask Microsoft. In this case, the playing field is user comments, and the competitor is Echo.
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Facebook Offers Its Comment System to Any Website
Facebook (news, site ) offers a way to make posting messages easier for all sites and users, and improve the visibility of comments, but is this really a good thing? Go Ahead, Punk, Make Your Comment This story has more sides to it than a rhombus in a
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Evaluating the Moderation of Newspapers
The issue of user-generated content has been subject to scrutiny and debate among online news media, many of whom have questioned its place in online journalism. We reported that A Moderated Approach to User Generated Content seemed to produce more accurate and censored content than opponents would lead you to
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Should Newspapers Eliminate User Comments?
User comments seem to be a hot topic as of late. Much of it related to why newspapers should either eliminate or enhance them. In a recent article on Gawker.com, it was strongly suggested that comments should be rid of altogether, citing that "newspapers have more important things to do
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Defensio Comes Out Guns a-Blazing (Against Spam)
Defensio has announced the public-beta launch of its new spam filtering service for blogs and other social web applications. The new service is free for individual users. It currently only supports WordPress -based applications, but a public API for interested developers is freely available, and support for other web services
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JS-Kit Builds Enterprise-Class Widgets with Amateur Ease
The rumors are true: comment box-modding is now an industry. JS-Kit has just released a new Comments widget that boasts lots of important features but is disturbingly easy to implement and use. (Seriously. Try it here.) At no cost and with no advertising, users of JS-Kit Comments can: * Monitor threads *
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coComment Shoots for Common Man in v2.0
We've done a lot of talking about the democratic benefits of the 'net. Because it's so easy to become a web publisher, everybody's got a soapbox, right? But what can web two-dot-oh do for opinionated people who don't blog and have no intention to start? coComment may answer that question.
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Movable Type Users: MT-Hacks Gives you Ajax Comments
Now even citizen bloggers can get all Web 2.0'ed out. MT-Hacks, a resource for all your eyebrow-raising Movable Type plugin needs, has just launched an AJAX-powered comments system. It is called Ajax Comments. Movable Type has always had a really unique developer (plugin) community, but with its repositioning of
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Commentful Adds to Stream-of-Thought Publishing Trend
Conversation is making a comeback in a big way. While this doesn't mean more people are getting cozy over coffee, it does mean the tech-savvy are demanding faster and faster ways to get their thoughts out to both relevant audiences and those less so.
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