We’re happy to announce that we now support comments written on Digg and Reddit submissions. You can add your comments to your profile by visiting your Claim Comments page and entering your Digg and Reddit usernames.
Let us know what services you’d like to see included next.
We’re always looking for new uses of our API; here are three that have caught our attention:
Bit.ly, a URL shortening service, added comments to the "Conversations" section on their info pages:
In addition to aggregating conversations from Twitter and FriendFeed, the info pages about blog posts show the number of comments found on each post. We use an API provided by backtype.com to pull in the comment count as well as the names of people who’ve commented on each post. You can check this out by visiting the info page for this blog post by Umair Haque: http://bit.ly/info/4AUD68
Here’s a quick update with some new tools for BackType Search:
Search Plug-in
Now you can search comments quickly and easily whether you’re on BackType.com or not using our Search Plug-in for Firefox 2+ and Internet Explorer 7.
WebMynd Firefox Extension
BackType Search has been included in the WebMynd Firefox Extension, which allows you to personalize Google search results with the information sources you value most. Read the rest of this entry »
We’ve released another widget that allows you to display search results on your blog or other website. For example, you can show comments that mention your name, company name, products, services and other search terms that interest you and your readers.
We’re really excited to announce that BackType has been added as an official FriendFeed service. It’s great to follow comments written by people you care about on a service like FriendFeed where you can stream 48 services covering blog posts, blog comments, photos, videos, music and more.
Click here to add BackType to your FriendFeed account.
BackType Trends is a small web service we launched today that lets you graph mentions of keywords and topics made in millions of comments. We built it to demo our API – which was used exclusively. We’ve featured a group a searches on the front page with a lot of mentions.
For example, here’s a graph of mentions of Obama made in the last two weeks:
Today we released the first version of our API. We’re going to continue adding new methods and documentation, so we’d love to get your feedback. Hit us up on Twitter @backtype or visit our contact page. If you build an interesting application using our API, let us know so we can check it out!
Lots of people have discovered BackType through Twitter; in fact, we have our own account @backtype that we like to use to get feedback and help you out when things go wrong.
So we thought Twitter would be a great place to share the comments you write. Now you can visit your account page to setup auto-posting to Twitter in daily or weekly digests. You can also tweet any comment individually – just click the tweet link beneath the comment.
Several people have been asking for a way to display their latest comments on their blog, so today we’re releasing two widgets for bloggers and other website owners. Both widgets are stretch-to-fit, designed to fit in the sidebar of a blog. For those who want to change the appearance or contents of our widgets, you can easily do so with a few lines of CSS.
Here are the widgets that are available:
You can see the latest comments made using our official BackType profile in the right hand column of this blog. Visit the widgets page to learn more, or login and learn how you can add widgets to your site with a single line of HTML.
If there’s something else you want for your blog, let us know.
BackType allows you to search keywords across the blogosphere to uncover important conversations that may require our participation, or at the very least, provide you with insight into critical community perspective. — Brian Solis
At BackType, we’ve been thinking of ways to make that easier. Following comments by a particular author a la Twitter was a core feature when we launched, and now you can do the same for search terms.
BackType Alerts lets you follow specific search terms and delivers results to your inbox, feed reader and Dashboard. E-mail updates are available as they happen, or in daily or weekly digests. Use alerts to: