Comments on: Follow web-wide comments with Backtype http://paulmwatson.com/journal/2008/08/28/follow-web-wide-comments-with-backtype/ The journal of Paul M. Watson Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:48:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-beta1 hourly 1 By: paulmwatson http://paulmwatson.com/journal/2008/08/28/follow-web-wide-comments-with-backtype/comment-page-1/#comment-15266 paulmwatson Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:26:12 +0000 http://paulmwatson.com/journal/?p=1250#comment-15266 "signatures" were pretty much a combination of URL and name or name and avatar etc. Very early thinking and most of the project was meant to look into the many problems around figuring "signatures" out. <br><br>Enterprise Ireland chose not to fund the proposal however (mainly because the "signature" idea seems pretty hard to crack.) If you guys make millions then I'll have to remind them about the proposal :) “signatures” were pretty much a combination of URL and name or name and avatar etc. Very early thinking and most of the project was meant to look into the many problems around figuring “signatures” out.

Enterprise Ireland chose not to fund the proposal however (mainly because the “signature” idea seems pretty hard to crack.) If you guys make millions then I'll have to remind them about the proposal :)

]]> By: Mike Montano http://paulmwatson.com/journal/2008/08/28/follow-web-wide-comments-with-backtype/comment-page-1/#comment-15265 Mike Montano Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:00:44 +0000 http://paulmwatson.com/journal/?p=1250#comment-15265 Thanks for writing about BackType. I'm glad you're liking the service. Like you said, it isn't perfect yet, but we're working hard to make it better every day. You're right on about adding support for other services. We already support Hacker News (<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com">news.ycombinator.com</a>) and will be expanding to support comments from other services in the future.<br><br>We're curious, what did you propose to use as "signatures"? Thanks for writing about BackType. I'm glad you're liking the service. Like you said, it isn't perfect yet, but we're working hard to make it better every day. You're right on about adding support for other services. We already support Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com) and will be expanding to support comments from other services in the future.

We're curious, what did you propose to use as “signatures”?

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