Comment with OpenID
Disqus announced today that its commenting widget finally supports OpenID.
You may recall they’ve been quickly adding other ways to login and leave a comment, including Facebook Connect and Twitter. I applaud their support for multiple authentication mechanisms.
I’ve enabled OpenID here, and as you probably know, I’m a proponent. So, if OpenID is your bag, feel [...]
Use Twitter to Leave a Comment
I’m so far behind on my reading, having been on vacation and currently attending WebVisions.
Still, I noticed a post to the Disqus blog from last week announcing their support for sign-in via Twitter. You may recall they also support Facebook Connect, which I enabled back in March, and now you can also use your Twitter [...]
All Your Comments Are Belong to Us
H/t to Joel Garry for the AYB reference.
As I mentioned when I enabled the new Disqus Social Media Reactions feature earlier this month, comment aggregation is all the rage with bloggers. Commentary and discussion that used to be centered squarely in the comments on a blog can now happen in a bunch of other places [...]
Disqus Adds Comment Aggregation
I suppose I blog a lot about Disqus because we’ve been using it here for a while. I’ve gone back and forth about whether we should keep it, especially after WordPress introduced threaded comments.
Although I’m not in love with the idea of a) not owning the comments and b) taking a performance hit on every [...]
Anatomy of a Spam Attack
Yesterday, I did some browsing of the web analytics for this blog to get comparison numbers for the browser stats I had for Connect.
Today, I went back to do a little more digging and some navel-gazing
We use Google Analytics, which I prefer to Mint for web metrics. It has loads of metrics beyond [...]
Leave a Comment using Facebook Connect
Just before Christmas, Disqus announced their support for Facebook Connect. At the time I remember being a little disappointed with the decision, due to Facebook’s closed nature and what seemed like a choice for the walled garden of Facebook and against the open web (OpenID, OAuth, OpenSocial).
I like Disqus; they’ve been responsive when we’ve had [...]
Now We’re on FriendFeed
Disqus announced an integration with FriendFeed today.
We’ve used Disqus for a while here and were early FriendFeed adopters. I like both services but have struggled to keep up with comments on FriendFeed that apply to posts made here. The FriendFeed plugin was great, but that stopped working a few months ago.
So, the news that Disqus [...]
Discussing Disqus
If you’ve read and commented here in the past, you’ll have noticed we switched to Disqus to handle comments about two months ago.
Rich made the change, and I was initially skeptical because frankly I had no real idea of what switching would get us. Disqus has a few distinct advantages over the built-in Wordpress commenting [...]
