I agree that friendfeed has great potential but they too will have to find a way to defragment commenting. At the moment they are one of the offenders, if I have that correctly. Meaning, they allow commenting on content being pulled into friendfeed which very well may be the same content I am commenting on right here. That’s based off your example of Scobble. So friendfeed has some work to do on this front. They either need to pull in the comments along with the original content or they need to be able to push comments left at friendfeed to the content originator.

The one thing I really like about socialthing is they not only aggregate your content but your friends content. For instance, I tell socialthing my flickr info right? It doesn’t just show me photos I’ve posted but it just *knows* my friends and shows thumbnail of photos they’ve posted. WHEW! That means I don’t have to YET AGAIN go to yet another social website and refriend all of these people (which friendfeed requires).

That’s another thing I would like to see change with friendfeed. Enough friending already. When you collect my tweets, know who my friends are on twitter and collect their tweets too. Don’t make me pump all of my social sites and rss feeds into friendfeed and then go around and try to relocate all of my friends (on friendfeed) that I’ve already friended on many of these social sites. Talk about fragmentation! ENOUGH ALREADY! Profilactic does the same thing. Incredibly annoying and borderline not useful. Social thing has been my go-to aggregator for this reason: I tell socialthing my social sites, the credentials for said social sites and not only does it pull in my stream but my friends as well. Simple no-brainer!

Concerning disqus I tried it, really liked it a lot, and moved away from it recently. There are features that I consider a must have and importing old comments is one of them. Until I see this, among other, features I can’t consider them a major player. Again with the fragmentation, do you expect us to have half of our comments burried in our CMS and the other half buried in disqus? Didn’t work for me and I stuck it out for quite a few months. Not saying I will never go back but I am saying that having my comments fragmented like that got real annoying real fast.
Anyway hey, GREAT entry, thanks for letting me ramble I feel better already!

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