Facebook update brings threaded comments for Pages
Comments and conversation threads will be ordered based on relevance to the user and might appear differently to each person.
Livefyre raises $15M to rule comments and social, now 10M users strong
February 6, 2013 8:01 AM
Devindra Hardawar
The race to own online comments continues.
Facebook gets serious about conversations, experiments with new comment format for Pages
November 12, 2012 2:19 PM
Jennifer Van Grove
In the interest of fueling better conversations, Facebook is now pushing the most popular comments to the top of post threads on a small number of Facebook Pages.
Facebook adds comment editing, angels sing
June 21, 2012 6:00 PM
Meghan Kelly
Your friend just posted a vague, self-interested status update about how you really don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone, and the 150 word poignant comment you just posted has one typo in it. One. Facebook is officially catering …
Disqus overhauls commenting system to improve quality of conversations
May 3, 2012 11:38 AM
Jennifer Van Grove
Five-year-old commenting platform Disqus is beginning the release of a dramatically overhauled version of its product today. The new edition aims to improve the quality of online conversations through speed enhancements, comment-voting capabilities, and personalized and community views.
Disqus is …
Engagio goes from the comment section to a $540K seed investment
February 15, 2012 9:03 AM
Ben Popper
Engagio, a Toronto startup founded by William Mougayar that helps people keep track of the conversations they are having in comment threads across the web, has raised $540,000 in a seed round led by Rho Canada and New York investor …
Data suggests people using pseudonyms leave better comments
January 15, 2012 4:00 PM
Jennifer Van Grove
Fact or fiction? Online commenters who use their real names will leave higher quality comments.
Before you respond with a “well duh, that’s a fact” retort, you might want to take a look at new data from online conversation startup …
400K publishers rejoice: Facebook’s commenting system now works on mobile
January 11, 2012 4:01 PM
Jennifer Van Grove
The online comment is a troubled entity, often abused or under-appreciated by the anonymous masses. But Facebook thinks there’s a better way.
The social network pushed out an update today that makes its Comments Box third-party commenting plugin work on …
Disqus CEO not worried about Facebook comment threat
Despite the clear competition from Facebook’s new commenting service, commenting company Disqus’s co-founder and CEO Daniel Ha says he is not concerned about Facebook’s foray into the field, according to PeHub.
On March 1st Facebook introduced its commenting plug-in. TechCrunch, …
Foursquare launches new Android app earlier than expected
Foursquare may have just released a new iPhone application on Monday, but the company isn’t done with the upgrades just yet. Cofounder and chief executive Dennis Crowley just tweeted that the Android version of the new app is now available, …
Could MySpace's new facelift win over Facebook users?
Popular social network MySpace today announced it has decided to give its profiles a face lift with a more simplistic format. The change comes as a result of user feedback that cited troubles navigating profiles and finding content, said a …
CollegeOnly just misses Scoop on college student social networks
The chances that two college-only social networks would launch in the same week seems pretty low. The chances that both networks would also be backed by big name investors seems even lower. But, that’s exactly what’s happened. Along with Scoop, …
