I’m very fortunate. Since March/ April 2003 I’ve been able to blog for free, hosted by Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. It’s an option open to anyone with a Harvard email address. While we all started with Radio Userland, Berkman switched everyone over to Wo...

Alright, so our comment challenge with AMC has come to an end and we have some winners! Each winner below will receive 2 AMC movie passes, one disqus tshirt, and a handful of stickers. Best Nixon Impression! Won by Adam Teece Do you have an amazing story? What was it? Won by Rick Stern When I was yo...

We’ve been pretty quiet this past week but it has been for good reasons. The team has been working hard on a solution for the rise in spam, finishing our Facebook Connect integration, and warmly welcoming our new back-end developer Devin Naquin. Devin was an intern during the Summer of 2008 at...

While venture capital is said to be very expensive these days, hard to obtain, and with questionable potential returns given a closed market for public offerings and multiples for mergers and acquisitions, companies on the periphery of blogging appear to still be hot. We saw Auttomatic acquire Inten...

What is Lijit? Lijit allows you to easily create your own search engine. One that searches your blog, bookmarks, photos, blogroll, comments, and much more. Why is this important? The comments section is one of the most valuable places on a site. It’s an excellent indicator of reader engagement and...

Image via Wikipedia Why I follow Fred Wilson ! http://fredwilson.vc/ This article on http://disqus.com/ is written by Mr Wilson A master at Content Creation.  Fred Wilson and Seth Godin http://sethgodin.typepad.com/ both have the ability to capsulize. capsulize - put in a short or concise form;...

Storytlr is a fun intuitive life streaming project created by Laurent Eschenauer and Alard Weisscher. You can  update your status, share a song, give your opinion, link to an interesting site and connect your web 2.0 services. Storytlr has integrated DISQUS throughout its system and now users may e...

The other day I wrote up a post about an interesting new service called FF2Disqus which was intended to let bloggers pull in FriendFeed comments about a post in to their Disqus comments on their blog (as log as they use Disqus that is). In turn it was also meant to let Disqus comments be pulled into...

Andreas Gohr at Splitbrain has released a plugin that allows you to use DISQUS on DokuWiki.  Find it here: http://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:disqus Getting Started!   Click Admin This assumes you have properly setup your super user, If not read this. Click Manage Plugins Copy/Paste the plugin d...

I am an avid user of FriendFeed and I use Disqus here on WinExtra and on an off I would use FriendFeed’s import feature to add comments made on any posts into my FriendFeed stream. The only thing was that the implementation irritated the shit out of me. It wasn’t anything that Disqus was doing o...