11.03.2008

BackType Rocks.

Heard of BackType? It's a fantastic service that allows you to keep track of your own and others' comments on blogs. (Scott Oser, this one is for you!) Another great way to "listen" in the social media space.

I just got a newsletter email listing a bunch of awesome new BackType services - will just repost them here for you:

FriendFeed - you can easily add all of the comments you write to your FriendFeed account

Alerts - BackType Alerts sends you an e-mail update (immediately, or in daily or weekly digests) whenever a subscribed search term is mentioned in a comment. You can also monitor your alerts via RSS or through the alerts tab in your BackType Dashboard.

Twitter - you can setup auto-posting to Twitter in daily or weekly digests. You can also tweet any comment individually -- just click the tweet link beneath the comment.

Widgets - they have released three blog widgets: to display your comments, your shared comments and search results,
respectively.

Developers - they have released a comprehensive API for developers to play with.

Trends - BackType Trends lets you graph mentions of keywords and topics made in millions of comments.

Nice!

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8 comments:

  1. Thanks for the kind words; I'm really glad that you're enjoying BackType and the various features we've released over the past two months.

    As always, let us know whenever you have feedback!
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  2. Good to learn about BackType. Any thoughts on how this is the same/different from Disqus? Thx!
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  3. Good question! I have to admit I have not been able to get much from Disqus. You can embed it into your blog so the comments you receive are then searchable, but I tried it and for some reason did not like it so I took it off my blog. Presumably if you leave comments on other blogs that are Disqus-enabled, other people can find them on Disqus, but I have had problems with that too. It's been a while since I looked into it, though, maybe it's time to revisit my Disqus account and see what's what. setting up a Backtype account seemed a lot simpler to me, and it already had tons of my comments the first time i registered - I believe it's pre-populated with Blogger profiles.
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  4. BackType requires you to list the blogs where you've posted comments. What if you haven't kept track of that? Is there a service that just finds these for you?
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  5. Not sure - but I thought the same thing - but you actually have to list the websites YOU list when you comment. In other words, yours would be your blog url, plus any other websites YOU own. Mine are my blog url, my PITV blog url, and socialfish.org.

    Basically Backtype searches for YOUR urls when it's searching through comments all over the web, since you almost always fill out some kind of form to post a comment where you list your name, your email, your url.

    Make sense?
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  6. It makes a lot of sense, but it wasn't clear at BackType.
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  7. Maddie,

    I love it when you hook me up! I am going to check this out ASAP! Thanks!

    Scott
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  8. best comment search engine which ever I found, cool. Nice info sharing, so informatif posting. Thank's...
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