Automattic buys blog comment plugin Intense Debate
We’re live at the TechStars demo day in Mountain View, Calif., where companies from the incubator are showing off what they’re up to. Just announced: Intense Debate, a blog commenting plugin system that grew out of Tech Stars, has been bought by Automattic, parent company of blog platform WordPress, for an undisclosed sum.
The Intense Debate system includes commenter profiles, threaded comments, spam control, and other features designed to make the comment sections of online articles… Continue Reading
Disqus and Intense Debate: Sharing comments across the web
Disqus and Intense Debate are two new blog commenting systems going into public beta today. There are many such services, and none of them have really taken off.
However, these latest companies could help connect conversations in new ways, including by aggregating blog comments on popular social networks that are opening to developers.
Some sites, like coComment, offer features such as forums that are focused around generating a conversation on its own site. Meanwhile, sites like SezWho… Continue Reading