THE DREAM IN ACTION

Now you can comment on this blog and it will post to Friendfeed. There are many great conversations going on over on Friendfeed and I’m happy that I’ll be able to reach and engaged that community with this blog.

During a talk with Robert Scoble and Gary Vaynerchuk at CES, Scoble mentioned that Friendfeed has a lot of big things coming. A recent blog post I read entitled ‘Friendfeed could kill Twitter‘ (sorry couldn’t find a link) lead me to believe that Friendfeed does have some really great stuff down the line. I’m pumped for that platform to grow and I think it’s great, but for now it’s still a little too early adopter-ish. I’d love to help them get more main stream which is why I’m happy to be on the early side of integrations like this.

I’ve long been a proponent of opening the conversations up and minimizing platform dependability. I also like services that are platform transparent, meaning they don’t need you to know where or how the conversation is happening, but are more focused on the fact that the conversation is happening. Disqus seems to be that way. They are making partnerships that will take their added value and share it with others. The are closer to the source of the value (the blog) and they know that if the conversations they “own” or host are on more platforms their value will increase as well.

Great work to the Disqus and Friendfeed folks for making this happen.

Below is a view from Friendfeed:

One thing I’ve noticed is that it does not appear that a comment made on Friendfeed will come back to post on this blog. I’m not sure if it should and didn’t or if they don’t have that worked out yet but this must occur for there to be significant platform transparency and value add.