I've been watching Intense Debate for some time, a tool that is designed to improve discussion on content and posts by making it easier to dailogue.
As we get farther and farther into the social era of the web, it's natural that companies will try to improve on existing communicaiton tools and make functionalities converge. That appears to be the idea behind this service. Here's how they define themselves:
IntenseDebate provides many new features meant to inspire discussion and easily follow the conversation.
In order to better organize the discussion, we've implemented comment threading which allows users to directly reply to one another.
Users also have an identity that spans across all blogs powered by IntenseDebate. Along with this is a reputation value, based on the quantity and quality of the comments users make, meant to give an overview of a user's commenting history. Quality is determined by the users through comment voting, which also serves to move the best comments to the top.
With all of our comment systems being interconnected, we make it easy to track users and their activities across all blogs using our system by providing email and rss notifications.
In short, IntenseDebate has completely transformed the commenting experience.
IntenseDebate. Comments Rediscovered.
Their mission also becomes a little clearer when you watch their teaser trailer:
You should also know that while Intense debate works on a variety of platforms, it's now owned by WordPress:
The concept of Intense Debate is a good one, and I'd put it on this blog if YOU PEOPLE MADE MORE COMMENTS!
Oh, I am kidding, you know I love you. The feature set for Intense Debate is extensive. Here's a summary:
Comment Threading
Reply-By-Email
Importing/Exporting
Commenter Profiles
Reputation Points & Comment Voting
Moderation/Blacklisting
Widgets
RSS Readers & Tracking
FriendFeed
OpenID
Gravatar
HTML Formatting
Definitely something to join and use! I will be installing it here in the vain hope that my delightful viewers will find controversy in my musings.
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