Disqus - Better Blog Comments

Go figure. Now that everyone comments on FriendFeed, there’s a better way to do blog commenting: Disqus. This service provides an improved blog management system for your blog, whether it’s WordPress, MovableType, Tumblr, Blogger, or TypePad. And if you blog with something else, you can just use a general code snippet for your site instead. With Disqus, comments are threaded, rateable, commenters can track and follow conversations, spam is dealt with, and there’s even an online "community page" where all the comments for all the posts on your blog are tracked.

I’m not sure what the deal is with the old posts showing up "1 hour ago" according to my community page, but I think it has something to do with the fact that I just installed it to apply to "any posts without comments, including future ones." It will probably work itself out.

Now the trick is to actually get comments. Hmmm.

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Mobile reminder service kwiry, which I covered here, is running a pretty cool promo right now. If you’re using kwiry, then anytime you send in a kwiry for a specific book, movie, or music (song or album), you’re automatically entered in a contest to win that very item.

The more you send, the more chances to win. Just include one of these words - book, movie, or music - along with the title of the item.

Example: Spiderman 3 Movie 

You can enter as many times as you want with different books, movies and music, but you can’t repeat the same title within a week.

More details can be found here: http://blog.kwiry.com/announcing-its-on-us-once-a-week-36/

Here’s a service that just misses the mark: TP2Location. This new site lets you enter in a phone number from anywhere in the world and find out who called you. Or at least, that’s what it should do. I mean, that would be filling a void. That would be a useful service. But that’s not what TP2Location does. Instead of pinpointing a name or even a street address, it gives you the geographic location (the city/state) and carrier information (the phone company) for the telephone number you enter. You can then click on "map" to see where this is on a Google map. Hmmmph. I can google for an area code now to figure out where a call came from, so this doesn’t help me. And it won’t help you either, unless you get lots of mystery calls from overseas and you’re dying to know what country they’re from.